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CONFERENCE: “What is Human?”

What_is_HumanThe What is Human Conference is THIS SATURDAY, February 27th from 1:30-6 in the Knight Library Browsing Room, and here is the schedule:

1:30 – 1:45: Coffee and Tea
1:45 – 2:15 – John Olson
“Decolonizing Conceptions of Gender Liminal Lives.”
2:15 – 2:45 – Billy Dean
“Fujitani Mitsue and Human Naming”
2:45 – 3:30 – Dr. Peter Warnek
“Freedom before Responsibility”
3:30 – 3:45 – Coffee and Tea Break
3:45 – 4:15 – Alyson Escalante
“Towards a Trans Ecology: Of Monsters, Boundaries, and the Post-human Subject”
4:15 – 4:45 – Devin Fitzpatrick
“First-Person Philosophy and the Limits of a Human Perspective”
4:45 – 5:30 – Dr. Naomi Zack
“Get Over Yourself!: Failed ideas of ‘the human’ for what progressives really want.”

Conference Flyer

For more information, please contact Madeline Georgevich at mgeorge5@uoregon.edu