PUBLIC LECTURE: What is the place of the non-human? - A SymbioticA Friday Seminar

SymbioticA Friday Seminar > Title: 'What is the place of the non-human?'

Speaker: Dario Magnani

Date: 8th April

Location: SymbioticA

In this week’s Friday seminar, Dario Magnani will analyse the objectification of science and art at SymbioticA, in order to understand how this fusion has developed and how it can be related to anthropocentrism and the cultural narcissisism in western societies. The analysis will be strengthened by brief examples of different cultures' perceptions of the ‘non-human’ and how understanding of the concepts of ‘we’ and ‘other’ can change the relationship between humankind and their surroundings. Frameworks will be derived from cultural and visual anthropology, anthropology of art, zoo-anthropology and ethno-psychology.

Dario Magnani has a degree in Intercultural Communication from the University of Torino. He has spent the past five months in Perth researching and interviewing people for his Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Torino.

More info and Future Seminars: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/seminars