Octopuses in Interdisciplinary Perspective
A Virtual Conference
30/31 October 2020
Schedule
Day 1
- 1st Section: Bodily Configurations
- „Altered Ways of Being“, Michael Burton & Michiko Nitta
- „From Form to Formlessness: The Strategy of the Octopus“, Patricia Ribault
- „Looking for Dumbo“, Alexander Ziegler
- 2nd Section: Alternating Encounters
- „The Giant Squid: The Creation of Monster“, Otto Latva
- „The Decline and Fall of Evelyn Waugh’s Octopuses“, Toby Juliff
- „What Lies at the Heart“, Rachel Bailey
- „I’d like to be under the sea’: In Search for Octopus Soundscape“, Martin Ullrich
- Keynote
- „What is the World Like for an Octopus?“, Jennifer Mather
Day 2
- 3rd Section: Living With
- „Visiting Octopus: Seeing Through Glass Clearly”, Hörner/Antlfinger
- “Thriving in Context: The Octopus World”, Chelsea Harry
- “Octopuses and Other Sea Beings in Brazilian Literature: Animal Agency in João Guimarães Rosa’s Aquário (Nápoles)”, Ana Carolina Torquato
- 4th Section: Motives of Alterity
- “Cephalization”, NEOZOON
- “Searching for Octopuses in the Amazon”, Mike Singe
- “feeler: Octopus Motherhood and Meat”, mOwson & M0wson
- “Towards an animal-inclusive ethics/aesthetics of alterity, via Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Other Minds”, Christie Oliver-Hobley
- Performance Lecture:
- “Ten Tickles (my fancy)”, Madison Bycroft
- Closing Remarks