Wednesday, May 4
Auditório da Biblioteca Luiz de Bessa – Praça da Liberdade
7 p.m.: Opening Ceremony
7:15 to 8 p.m.: Opening speech by the zoologist and writer Ângelo Machado (ICB/UFMG) – “Quem tem medo dos animais” (Who Is Afraid of Animals)
Chair: Maria Esther Maciel
8:15 to 10 p.m.: Cocktail party to launch the book Pensar/escrever o animal (Thinking/Writing the Animal)
Thursday, May 5
Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas da UFMG – Auditório 2
8:15 to 9 a.m.: Registration and distribution of badges and program booklets
9 to 10 a.m.: First Keynote Speaker: Dominique Lestel (ENS/Archives Husserl, Paris): “The Question of Animality at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Biodiversity, Artificial Animality and Endangered Humans”
Respondent: Sérgio Cirino (FAE/UFMG)
10 to 10:30 a.m.: Coffee break
10:30 a.m.to noon: Zoopoetics and Biopolitics
- Álvaro Fernández-Bravo (New York University em Buenos Aires): “La porosidad de los límites: zonas de contacto en la imaginación biopolítica latinoamericana (The Porosity of the Limits: Zones of Contact in Latin-American Biopolitical Imagination)”
- Gabriel Giorgi (New York University): “ A guerra dos animais: zoopolíticas latinoamericanas (The War of Animals: Latin-American Zoopolitics)”
- Márcio Seligmann-Silva (Unicamp): “Compaixão animal (Animal Compassion)”
Panel Chair: Elcio Cornelsen (UFMG)
Noon to 2 p.m.: Lunch break
2 to 3:30 p.m.: Zooliterary Landscapes
- Eneida Maria de Souza (UFMG): “De animais e literatura: Rosa, Kafka e Coetzee” (Animals and Literature: Rosa, Kafka and Coetzee)
- Jens Andermann (University of London): “Limites da espécie: crise rural e figuras de metamorfose na narrativa latino-americana moderna” (Limits of Species: Rural Crisis and Metamorphic Figures in Modern Latin-American Narrative)
- Paula Glenadel (UFF): “Apresentar o irrepresentável: paisagem com bois e vaca amarela” (Presenting What Cannot Be Represented: Landscape with Oxen and Yellow Cow)
Panel Chair: Marli Fantini
3:30 to 4 p.m.: Coffee break
4 to 5:30 p.m.: Fables, Metamorphoses, and Animal Epics
- Marisa Lajolo (Mackenzie): “No tempo em que os animais falavam” (When Animals Could Talk)
- Jacyntho Lins Brandão (UFMG): “Corpo bestial, mente racional” (Beastly Body, Rational Mind)
- Sérgio Medeiros (UFSC): “O épico animal: o visconde de Taunay e James Joyce na revolução dos bichos” (The Animal Epic: The Viscount of Taunay and James Joyce in the Animals’ Revolution)
Panel Chair: Luiz Sá (UFMG)
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.: Second Keynote Speaker: Tom Tyler (Oxford Brookes University, UK): “Monstrous Races and Strange Cases: The Ill-Fated Hybrid”
Respondent: Julio Jeha (UFMG)
Friday, May 6
Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas da UFMG – Auditório 2
9 to 10:30 a.m.: Human, Nonhuman, and Posthuman
- Raul Antelo (UFSC): “As térmitas e a mediação” (Termites and Mediation)
- Fermín Rodríguez (San Francisco State University): “Roberto Arlt y la vida puerca: el cuerpo político del capitalismo” (Restrepo, Vallejo: The Political Body of Capitalism) (Roberto Arlt’s Life’s a Bitch: The Political Body of Capitalism)
Panel Chair: Myriam Ávila (UFMG)
10:30 to 11 a.m.: Coffee break
11 to 12:30 a.m.: Poetry and Animality
- Luci Collin (UFPR): “Animais da mitologia celta na poesia irlandesa contemporânea” (Celtic Mythological Animals in Contemporary Irish Poetry)
- Fernanda Coutinho (UFC): “Da terra e do céu, a poesia que vem dos bichos: Manoel de Barros e suas Memórias Inventadas” (From Land and Sky, the Poetry that Comes From the Animals: Manoel de Barros and his Memórias Inventadas)
- Sérgio Alcides (UFMG): “‘Eles se tornaram uma linguagem’: animais na poesia de Ted Hughes (“They Have Become a Language”: Animals in the Poetry of Ted Hughes)
Panel Chair: Maria Clara Versiani Galery (UFOP)
12:30 to 2 p.m.: Lunch break
2 to 3:30 p.m.: Paper Sessions
3:30 to 4 p.m.: Coffee break
4 to 5:30 p.m.: The Angel, the Poem and the Animal
- Flora Sussekind (Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation): “Fabre, Bokanowski, Carlito: três versões do anjo” (Fabre, Bokanowski and Carlito: Three Versions of the Angel)
- Manoel Ricardo de Lima (UNI-Rio): “O poema, um animal que ri” (The Poem, a Laughing Animal)
- Florencia Garramuño (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina): “Modos da impertinência” (Ways of Impertinence)
Panel Chair: Vera Casa Nova (UFMG)
5:30 to 6:30 pm.: Third Keynote Speaker: Randy Malamud (Georgia State University): “Transgressing the Limits of the Human: The Meanings of Animal Pornography”
Respondent: Sandra Almeida (UFMG)
6:30 to 7 p.m.: Closing remarks by the organizers
8 p.m.: Dinner (Dutch treat)
Saturday, May 7
9:30 a.m.: Visit to Inhotim Institute, an open-air modern art museum outside Belo Horizonte
