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29 Mar 2025 10:00

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: ANIMAL STUDIES AND ECOCRITICISM IN INDIA

TESA 1 CFZ Zattere

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ANIMAL STUDIES AND ECOCRITICISM IN INDIA
28th and 29th March 2025

This conference devotes its reflection to ecocritical anthropological thoughts on the relations between non-human animals and humans in India. Historical, iconographical and ethnographic examples will be discussed and examined within local and indigenous contexts of India.
India has a unique history of religious philosophies, aesthetic expressions, religious practices and worldviews which explicitly deal with the relatedness between humans and animals. This conference will discuss neglected and marginalised indigenous ontologies, ritual and societal practices and aesthetics. It will contribute not only to South Asian studies, but also to Western Animal Studies and related disciplines.
Environmental perspectives and criticism is a rapidly emerging field of transdisciplinary reflection comprising literary studies, anthropology and cultural studies where the relationship that humans have to the environment, to the animals and to the biosphere is imagined, performed and ritually enacted.

I Session: Friday 28th March 10.00-13:00 / TESA 1 CFZ Zattere

II Session: Friday 28th March 15.30-18:30 / Aula Azzurra Ca’ Bernardo

III Session: Saturday 29th March 10:00-13:00 / TESA 1 CFZ Zattere

Speakers: Davide Torri, Deborah Nadal, Chiara Policardi, Lidia Guzy, Amber Elisabeth Peters, Francesco Brighenti, Margaret Lyngdoh, Tara Douglas, Deepika Gupta, Jishnu Shankar, Rafał Beszterda, Stefano Beggiora, Bryan De Notariis

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Organizzatore

Department of Asian and North African Studies (Stefano Beggiora)

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