Activities
2023
Betweter Festival 2023Kári Driscoll (Participant)
29 Sept 2023
Guest graduate seminar on zoopoeticsKári Driscoll (Speaker)
22 Mar 2023
“Unpredictable Kinds of ‘We’”: Julio Cortázar and the Zoopoetic ImaginationKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
21 Mar 2023
2022
Table Talk: Perpetrators, Animals, and AnimalityKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
30 Sept 2022
Extinction as SpectacleKári Driscoll (Speaker)
6 Sept 2022
, ASLE-UKI Biennial ConferenceCritical Transformations – Terra Critica 2.0Kári Driscoll (Participant)
8 Jun 2022 → 10 Aug 2022
Other Forms: A Neo-Formalist Analysis of Nonhumanity in Italian ModernismKári Driscoll (Member of committee)
18 Feb 2022
2021
World, War, Zoo: Zoo-Break Narratives in a Biopolitical FrameKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
1 Oct 2021
, Sacrifice ZonesAnymals, Poems, Empathy: A Zoopoetical StudyKári Driscoll (Member of committee)
17 Sept 2021
“Unpredictable Kinds of ‘We’”: Julio Cortázar and the Zoopoetic ImaginationKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
4 Mar 2021
2020
Winged ExtinctionKári Driscoll (Member of committee)
Dec 2020 → …
Reading Zoos in the Age of the AnthropoceneKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
27 May 2020
“Das eigentliche Problem vom Menschen”: Debt, (Ac)countability, and the Financialization of Wildlife ConservationKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
24 Jan 2020
, Schuld im Anthropozän2019
World, War, Zoo: Zoo-Break Narratives in a Biopolitical FrameKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
5 Dec 2019
»Das Zeugnis einer innerlichen Beschäftigung«, oder: Was heißt zoopoetisch Lesen?Kári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
29 Nov 2019
Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene: Captivity/EscapeKári Driscoll (Organiser)
7 Nov 2019 → 9 Nov 2019
“Keine Welt”: Re-Reading Rilke’s “Panther” in the Age of the AnthropoceneKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
9 May 2019
, An Inconvenient Conference?Reading Zoos in the Age of the AnthropoceneKári Driscoll (Organiser)
3 Apr 2019 → 5 Apr 2019
2018
What Does It Mean to Read Zoopoetically?Kári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
13 Dec 2018
, OZSW Animal Ethics Study GroupWhat Is a Zoopoetic Reading? – The Panther, the Axolotl, and the End of the WorldKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
19 Nov 2018
Grizzly ManKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
5 Nov 2018
, Studium Generale: Movies & SciencePlenary Panel: Taking Stock of New MaterialismKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
22 Jun 2018
, Urban MattersThe Book as Multispecies EventKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
1 Jun 2018
, Jubileumcongres van de Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging2017
Rilke’s “Panther” RevisitedKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
26 Nov 2017
, The Zoo and the AnthropoceneParallax (Journal)Kári Driscoll (Guest editor)
18 Oct 2017
Interpretation TodayKári Driscoll (Organiser)
20 Sept 2017 → 15 Jun 2018
Looking at Animals Looking: Illusion, Imitation, ZoopoeticsKári Driscoll (Organiser)
6 Jul 2017 → 9 Jul 2017
Memory after Humanism: Vulnerability, Disability, SpeciesKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
7 Apr 2017
Memory after HumanismKári Driscoll (Keynote speaker)
15 Feb 2017
, Futures of Memory“Une langue ou une musique inouïe, assez inhumaine…”: Narrative Voice and the Question of the Animal.Kári Driscoll (Speaker)
8 Feb 2017
, The Human–Animal Line2016
Towards a Post-Humanist Memory StudiesKári Driscoll (Speaker)
4 Dec 2016
, Thinking Through the Future of MemoryA Lick and a Promise: Rilke's DogsKári Driscoll (Speaker)
25 Nov 2016 → 27 Nov 2016
, Animal Encounters“Il n’y a pas de chats”: Some Types of Feline AbsenceKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
12 Oct 2016 → 14 Oct 2016
, Texts, Animals, Environments. Zoopoetics and Environmental PoeticsThe Blood of the Animal: Metaphor, Mimesis, and the Origin of PoetryKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
30 Jun 2016 → 1 Jul 2016
, Animal Mimesis: Intersections of Aesthetics and AnthropologyMemory, Posthumanism, and the AnthropoceneKári Driscoll (Organiser)
19 May 2016
"Il n'y a pas de chats”: Modernism and the Question of the AnimalKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
9 May 2016
, Comparative Literature Seminar“Une langue ou une musique inouïe, assez inhumaine...”: Narrative Voice and the Question of the AnimalKári Driscoll (Speaker)
18 Mar 2016
, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual MeetingPosthumanist VocalityKári Driscoll (Organiser)
17 Mar 2016 → 20 Mar 2016
2015
What Is Zoopoetics?Kári Driscoll (Organiser)
26 Mar 2015 → 29 Mar 2015
The Sticky Temptation of PoetryKári Driscoll (Speaker)
26 Mar 2015 → 29 Mar 2015
, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting2014
The Animality of the Text: Kafka’s ZoopoeticsKári Driscoll (Speaker)
18 Jul 2014
, Reading Animals. An International English Studies Conference2013
Suburban GothicKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
8 Oct 2013
2012
Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to MetaphorKári Driscoll (Speaker)
7 Dec 2012
, Das Tier als Medium. Zur Politik des Wissens von Mensch und Tier in Literatur, Wissenschaft und Okkultismus um 1900 (Institut für Komparatistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)Toward a Poetics of AnimalityKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
3 Dec 2012
, Comparative Literature SeminarThe First Metaphor: Animal Sacrifice and the Crisis of RepresentationKári Driscoll (Speaker)
5 Jul 2012
, Second International Minding Animals Conference: Building Bridges between Science, the Humanities and Ethics»Die Wurzel aller Poesie«. Sprachskepsis, Tieropfer und die erste MetapherKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
14 Jun 2012
, Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium: Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS) (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)2011
»Ohne Ergebnis wurde die Kralle wohl niemals angesetzt«: Überlegungen zu Kafkas ZoopoetikKári Driscoll (Speaker)
26 Nov 2011
, »Kafkas narrative Verfahren« – Internationale Tagung der Deutschen Kafka-Gesellschaft e.V. (Marburg)A Lick and a PromiseKári Driscoll (Speaker)
16 Oct 2011
, Second Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies2010
Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to MetaphorKári Driscoll (Invited speaker)
3 Apr 2010
, ACLA Annual Meeting: Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms2008
Copia Nostri: Das Echo eines literarischen Ich in Kafkas »Ausflug ins Gebirge«Kári Driscoll (Speaker)
20 Jul 2008
, »Betrachtung« – Internationale Tagung der Deutschen Kafka-Gesellschaft e.V. (Heidelberg)“Ist dies das Rosenfest, das du versprachst?” The Violence of Misspeaking in Kleist’s PenthesileaKári Driscoll (Speaker)
11 Apr 2008
, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 39th Annual Convention (Buffalo, NY)