Description
Film can be a powerful tool for academic teaching and learning about human-animal relationships. While the use of film across disciplines has great potential, we must also acknowledge its complexities and challenges. What are adequate theories for analyzing animal films, and how can we become critical of anthropocentrism in our analysis? How can we use film to explore ethical and political questions about nonhuman animals, such as the use of animals in industries? And how do we communicate well across boundaries of disciplines, e. g. when discussing animal film in a philosophy class? We invite all students and teachers invested in using film to think about nonhuman animals to participate in this workshop. Our aim is to reflect collaboratively on the challenges of film as an educational tool and focus on possible solutions: on existing resources and on visions for academic infrastructures that consider factual nonhuman animals and pathways to a just interspecies society.In this workshop, we will work in groups to reflect on your experiences with film as a tool for studying and teaching nonhuman animals and work together – across disciplines – to share our knowledge, experience, and resources to come up with productive and creative answers to current challenges. We will ask both abstract questions (e. g. on the ethics of animal film) and practical questions (e. g.: how to create a syllabus that is critical of anthropomorphism?). The result will be a digital documentation of this group work that can inspire all of us in future teaching and learning using animal films.
| Period | 30 Nov 2023 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Valencia, SpainShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |