Date: May 3, 2011
Location: Baesse Auditorium of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences of UFMG

Guest: Professor Dominique Lester – Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS) / Archives Husserl, France.

The debate on the issue of animals has mobilized thinkers and researchers from the most different areas of knowledge, in various parts of the world. The growing interest in the topic has enabled the emergence of a new field of investigation which, under the name of Animal Studies, has established itself as a space for the intersection of disciplines from the Human, Social and Biological Sciences, around two major axes of discussion. : what concerns the animal itself and the so-called “animality”, and what concerns the complex and controversial relationships between men and non-human animals. With a view to exploring these two axes of discussion in the field of Literature, in interface with other arts and disciplines, the International Colloquium Animals, Animalities and the Limits of the Human was held.