Animals, Poets, and Philosophers

[Kaan H. Okten]

Dear Colleagues,

The Istanbul-based philosophy journal "Cogito" presents:

Animals, Poets, and Philosophers

May 26, 18:30, Sermet Cifter Hall, Istanbul

A discussion on violence and creativity, on the idea of humanity as oppos
ed
to bestiality,
provoked by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.

Moderator: Ferda Keskin

Speakers

Amanda Claybaugh
B.A., Yale, Ph.D., Harvard. Amanda Claybaugh focuses on the Victorian

novel, the postbellum US novel, and the trans-Atlantic nineteenth
century. In addition to editing Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mansfield Park, sh
e
has also published articles on Charles Dickens and temperance reform,

William Dean
Howells and the US Civil War, and Anne Brontë and narrative theory. H
er
Cross Purposes: Literary Ambition and Social Reform in the Trans-Atlantic

Novel, was published by Cornell University Press, and she is at work on a

new project about literary responses to the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Martin Puchner
B.A., Konstanz University/University of Bologna; M.A., University of

California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Harvard. Professor Puchner is author of

Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (Johns Hopkins
2002) and has published in New Literary History, Theatre Journal, Modern

Drama,
and Criticism among others. He has written an essay on Joe Orton for

Scribner's Sons' Encyclopedia of British Writers and has contributed to a

collection entitled Avant-Garde: New Perspectives (Amsterdam: Rodopi,
2000). He has written introductions for Lionel Abel's Tragedy and
Metatheater (Holmes and Meier 2003), for Eight Plays of Henrik Ibsen
(Barnes and Noble 2003), and for The Communist Manifiesto and Other

Writings (forthcoming, Barnes and Noble). He has edited two special
issues, one with Alan Ackerman on Modernism and Anti-Theatricality
(Modern Drama
44.3) and the other on Kafka and the Theater (The Germanic Review); he ha
s
also edited a collection of essays, Against Theatre: Creative Destruction
s
on the Modernist Stage (Palgrave MacMillan forethcoming). His new book,

Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes, is

forthcoming from Princeton University Press. He is co-editor, with Ellen

Gainor and Stanton Garner, of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Drama.

Rebecca Walkowitz
B.A., Harvard; M.phil., University of Sussex; Ph.D., Harvard. Rebecca
Walkowitz’s primary areas of research are the twentieth- and

twenty-first-century British, Irish, and Anglophone novel; the new world
literature; modernism; narrative theory; and cosmopolitanism. She has
recently completed a book about aesthetic and political strains of
cosmopolitanism in the writing of twentieth-century British and

postcolonial novelists, entitled Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the

Nation (Columbia University Press, 2006), and a volume of essays about th
e
new modernist studies, co-edited with Douglas Mao, entitled Bad
Modernisms (Duke University Press, 2006). She is the co-editor of five

other books,
including The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000), Secret Agents: The
Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America (Routledge, 1995), and

Media Spectacles (Routledge, 1993), and her articles have appeared in ELH
,
MLQ, Modern Drama, Contemporary Literature, and the Blackwell Companion t
o
British and Irish Literature, 1945-2000. Professor Walkowitz is an
Associate Editor of the journal Contemporary Literature.

Henry Turner
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., University of Sussex; Ph.D., Columbia

University; Diplôme Supérieur d'Études Françaises, Université d
e Bourgogne.
From 1993-94 Henry Turner taught in the Département d'Anglais at the

Université de Nice. His primary research and teaching areas are in
Renaissance literature and culture and in twentieth-century critical

theory. He has recently completed a book on Renaissance drama, practical
knowledge, and the history of scientific thought entitled The English
Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics and the Practical Spatial Arts
(Oxford: OUP, February 2006). He is the editor of The Culture of Capital
:
Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (New York:

Routledge, 2002), and his articles have appeared or are forthcoming in EL
H,
Renaissance Drama, Twentieth Century Literature, and The History of
Cartography (University of Chicago Press). He is a contributor to The

Norton Anthology of Drama (forthcoming 2007) and is co-editor of the book

series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity (Ashgate Press
).

Enjoy!

Kaan H. Okten
Istanbul Bilgi University
Dolapdere, Istanbul

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