V CILE

V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

III BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

OF ASLE-BRASIL

POETICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE: ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAIBA – JOÃO PESSOA - BRAZIL

AUGUST 11th to AUGUST 14TH  2020

          Before the flourishing field of animal studies, intellectuals associated to different cultures in different times expressed their concern about society’s disturbing relationship with animals. Early critical sociological theory manifesting the exploration of animals in human societies defended the thesis that the domination of animals is intimately associated to the domination of human beings, especially of women and racial and ethnic minorities. These premises were debated among the leading figures of Frankfurt School, Marx Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse and no less than the interdisciplinary approaches of Walter Benjamin. All of them criticized Western thought for instrumentalism attitudes toward animals and were committed to extending compassion to animals. Based on these primarily theoretical presuppositions, as starting point, the Fifth Conference of Literature and Environment and III Biennial Conference of ASLE Brasil welcome interdisciplinary critical  proposals that can establish dialogues based on the thought of School of Frankfurt to Contemporary Animal Studies that can lead us to consider theoretical advocacy for nonhuman animals. Critics such as Derrida, Donna Haraway and Cary Wolfe and others can be also considered starting points for reconsiderations of nonhuman and human difference, otherness and subjectivity. Thus, the basic objective of this Conference is to lead us to reflect on the brutalization of non-humans, as well as in the development of a more rational and just society.

Individual and group presentations should be organized around the following thematic axes:

1. AESTHETICS OF NATURE: ANIMALS, LITERATURE, CINEMA AND THEATER

2. EMPATHY AND COMPASSION: ANIMALS AND INDIGENOUS CULTURES

3. ANIMALS AND THE WESTERN PHILOSOPHY 

4. ANIMALS AND CONTEMPORARY LAW

5. GREEN CRIMES AND VIOLENCE AGANIST NON-HUMANS

6. RELIGION AND THE ANIMALS

7. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS, THE SOCIETY AND THE ANIMALS

8. TRADICIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND FAUNA PRESERVATION

9. STRATEGIES OF COMMUNICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TO PRESERVE THE FAUNA