María R. Carreras, PhD
#CfP II EHU Conference on #CriticalAnimalStudies @animaliaikritikoak.bsky.social -Location: Faculty of Arts - Facultad de Letras, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Alava), Basque Country -23 November: deadline for proposal submission. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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GEU ERE ANIMALIA 2026
Sep 28 at 11:35amWeb
Show threadMaría R. Carreras, PhDSep 28
In recent decades, critical thought has sought to achieve a complete reconfiguration of the place occupied by human beings in our narratives.
Show threadMaría R. Carreras, PhDSep 28
This second GEU ERE ANIMALIA conference, organised by the Animalia Ikaskesta Kritikoak (Critical Animal Studies) group, is framed within this questioning of the traditional boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, to explore how these categories address subjectivity, agency, and vulnerability.
Show threadMaría R. Carreras, PhDSep 28
It is not merely a matter of including nonhuman animals in our stories as characters that function as complements to or metaphors for humans.
Show threadMaría R. Carreras, PhDSep 28
It is, rather, about recognising them as actors with their own capacity for action; that is, as subjects whose experience and position in the world can impact human conceptions of the ethical and of other ways of being in the world.