<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:lucida console,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">(some tags instead of a forenote: Donna Haraway, </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Adrian MacKenzie, Jussi Parikka, companion species, bio-digitality, embodied data, insect media)<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">==============<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Public conference '<b>New Materialism: Naturecultures</b>' with LeineRoebana and opening of art exhibition ‘Companion Sculptures’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">On
7 April, 2011 the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University
organises a conference around Donna Haraway's concept 'naturecultures'.
Apart from scholars (from all around the world) who will rewrite
Haraway’s concept in various practices, dance company LeineRoebana will
perform fragments of recent work expressing a similar problematics. The
concepts given rise to (through dance) will be elaborated upon by the
choreographers themselves. On the same day the art exhibition ‘Companion
Sculptures’ opens which brings together the scholarly work of Donna
Haraway and the artistic production of sculptor Piet van de Kar. Several
sculptures will be on display in the buildings around Drift in Utrecht.
Donna Haraway, one of the most significant science, technology and
culture scholars in the world, will be visiting the Centre for the
Humanities at Utrecht University from 4 to 14 April (see <a href="http://www.uu.nl/faculty/humanities/NL/Actueel/nieuws/%20Pages/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.uu.nl/faculty/<wbr>humanities/NL/Actueel/nieuws/ Pages/</span></a>20110218-donna-haraway.<wbr>aspx).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">The
conference takes place in the Nicolaï Church, Nicolaaskerkhof 8,
Utrecht from 9:30 to 17:00 on April 7, 2011. All lectures and
discussions are plenary events.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Participation is free of charge. Please register via <a href="mailto:cfh@uu.nl" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">cfh@uu.nl</span></a> with subject ‘Conference Materialisms’.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">For more information: please contact <a href="mailto:I.vanderTuin@uu.nl" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">I.vanderTuin@uu.nl</span></a> or <a href="mailto:R.Dolphijn@uu.n" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><wbr>R.Dolphijn@uu.n</span></a>l</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">CONFERENCE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">One
of the conceptual innovations stirred by debates in contemporary
cultural theory that want to rewrite the linguistic turn concerns
‘naturecultures’. This concept is created by Donna Haraway in The
Companion Species Manifesto (2003) in order to write the necessary
entanglement of the natural and the cultural, the bodily and the mind,
the material and the semiotic, et cetera. ‘Naturecultures’ offers us an
important route to rewrite these modernist oppositions in such a way
that rather than representing parts of the world, a transcription with
the world is being proposed. Concepts thus do not capture or mirror what
is ‘out there’, but are fully immersed in immanence. ‘Naturecultures’
rewrites not only femininity but in the end all subversive material
practices as an ethical break through of for instance
phallologocentrism. Karen Barad would call this
‘ethico-onto-epistemological’.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">This
conference uses ‘naturecultures’ as a point of departure. We intend to
study conceptual innovation in contemporary cultural theory from
seemingly different ‘disciplinary’ and ‘paradigmatic’ angles in order to
demonstrate how similar movements in thought are at work in the
emerging paradigms of what we call a ‘new materialism’, but what is also
referred to as a post-humanism, an agential realism, and of which
traces can be found in many contemporary intellectual movements that
traverse philosophy, the humanities and the natural sciences.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Programme:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Morning Sessions: Rick Dolphijn (chair)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">9:30-10:00<span> </span>Intro<wbr>duction: Dr. Iris van der Tuin (UU)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">10:00 –
10:45<span> </span>Playing Cat's Cradle with Companion Species: Naturecultures-in-the-making</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Prof. Donna Haraway (UCSC)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">10:45 – 11:00<span> </span><span> </span>Res<wbr>pondent: Dr. Cecilia Åsberg (Linköping University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">11:00 – 11:45 <span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">“Originary Humanicity”: Rethinking
Anthropocentrism</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Dr. Vicki Kirby (UNSW)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">11:45 - 12:00<span> </span>Re<wbr>spondent: Prof. Rosemarie Buikema (UU)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">12:00 – 13:00<span> </span>Performance by LeineRoebana (featuring Heather Ware and Tim Persent)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">With a discussion between
Andrea Leine and Dr. Rick Dolphijn</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Lunch break (not provided)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Afternoon Sessions: Iris van der Tuin (chair)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">14:15 – 14:45<span> </span>'Open life'? Embodied data and devices in the making of bio-digital materialism</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr. Adrian MacKenzie (Lancaster University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">14:45 –
15:15<span> </span><span> </span>Med<wbr>ia Milieus, or Why Does Nature Do It Better?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"><span> <wbr> </span>Dr. Jussi Parikka (Anglia Ruskin University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">15:15 – 15:30<span> </span><span> </span>Q&A</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"
lang="EN-US">15:30 – 16:00<span> </span><span> </span>Voc<wbr>alities as environmental rhythmics on a nature–culture continuum: Rethinking voice studies with new materialism</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"><span> <wbr> </span>Dr. Milla Tiainen (Anglia Ruskin University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">16:00 – 16:30<span> </span><span> </span>‘<wbr>Civilizing’ Modern Abstractions? A.N.
Whitehead and the Importance of Religious Vision</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"><span> <wbr> </span>Melanie Sehgal (Potsdam University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">16:30 - 16:45<span> </span>Q&<wbr>A</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">16:45 -
17:00<span> </span>Cl<wbr>osing: Prof. Rosi Braidotti (UU)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">Reception and opening of exhibition 'Companion Sculptures'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">LEINEROEBANA</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">During
the conference LeineRoebana, the modern dance company of Andrea Leine
and Harijono Roebana, will “dance theory” and comment on several
important concepts raised in their recent work (the mind-body problem,
Otherness, the earth) posed to them by dr. Rick Dolphijn. The dances
will be performed by Tim Persent and Heather Ware, who was recently
awarded the Gouden Zwaan for the most impressive dance performance of
2010.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">COMPANION SCULPTURES</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">The
public exhibition ‘Companion Sculptures’ brings together the scholarly
work of Donna Haraway and the artistic production of Piet van de Kar.
The project entails the exhibition of several sculptures of Van de<a name="12ee3361a6151b3b__GoBack"></a> Kar in the buildings around Drift in Utrecht.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">ORGANIZATION</span></b></p><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US">The
conference is organised by Dr Iris van der Tuin and Dr Rick Dolphijn.
The first ‘New Materialism’ conference, organized by Dr. Jussi Parikka
and Dr. Milla Tiainen, took place in June 2010 at Anglia Ruskin
University/ CoDE in Cambridge, the UK. This second conference is an
initiative of the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Gender
Programme, and the Department of Media and Culture Studies, all located
at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University. It is funded by
these three partners, as well as by the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research, the Posthumanities Hub (Tema Genus, Linköping
University), the Center for the Study of Digital Games and Play (Utrecht
University), and the Research Institute for History and Culture
(Utrecht University).</span></div>
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