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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Flesh, Fur, Forgetting: Creaturely Remains in Coetzee and de Bruyckere Thursday, February 21, 2019 The terms “creature” and “creaturely” have newly received attention in the field of animal studies, bringing awareness to the shared status of human and non-human animals as vulnerable beings whose lives may be shed of historical agency and abandoned, in Eric Santner’s words, to the “mute thingness” of matter. But is the creaturely necessarily mute? In this paper I turn to recent collaborations between the taxidermy artist, Berlinde de Bruyckere and the writer, J.M. Coetzee, to consider how and whether creaturely memory and history might speak otherwise and what it might mean, in the words of Walter Benjamin, “to pick up the forgotten” from animals. Time: 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Philosophy Program; the Thinking Animals Initiative Contact: Jay Elliott. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7280 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/physics/events/