Dr. Cary Wolfe
Monday, April 14th, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
206 BSU
Today, the fundamental issue is not membership in a species, but inclusion and exclusion from membership in a community of those who are protected from violence and receive care and those who are not. In his lecture, Dr. Wolfe disrupts distinctions between human and animal, wild and domesticated life forms, by staging a vivid encounter between protected lives – including technologically monitored wild animals – and precarious lives both human and nonhuman.
Dr. Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and Director of The Center for Critical and Cultural Studies at Rice University. His many publications include the books Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory; What is Posthumanism?; and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame. He edits the influential Posthumanities series at the University of Minnesota Press.
Monday, April 14, 10:00 am – noon
206 East Hall
This seminar offers a chance to speak with Dr. Wolfe about:
• his past, current and future research in posthumanism,
biopolitics, animal studies, and American literature;
• the program in Critical and Cultural Studies at Rice University;
• his editorship of the “Posthumanities” series at the University
of Minnesota Press, and other topics of interest.
For more information on Dr. Wolfe and his work, visit the ICS website athttp://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/institute-for-the-study-of-culture-and-society/lectureseries.html.
Dr. Wolfe’s Lecture is a part of the Biopolitics/Cyberpolitics: 2014 ICS Lecture Series. All events are free and open to the public. For more information call 419 -372-0565.