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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are very excited to host <b>Andrew Benjamin</b> (Monash/Melbourne University) for his paper, ‘<b>Living in Peace with Animals: Pythagoras’ Speech in Ovid’s <i>Metamorphoses.</i>’ </b><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">The event will take place on Zoom on <b>Thursday, November 7</b>, <b>09:30–11:00 AM (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne time).</b><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">The event will be in a hybrid format broadcast from the School of Humanities Common Room (Rm 822, Brennan-MacCallum Building, University of Sydney).<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Here is the time in other locations:<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Los Angeles/Vancouver: Wednesday, November 6, 2:30–4:00pm</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Mexico City: Wednesday, November 6, 4:30–6:00pm</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Chicago: Wednesday, November 6, 4:30–6:00pm</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">New York: Wednesday, November 6, 5:30–7:00pm</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: Wednesday, November 6, 7:30–9:00pm</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Dublin/Belfast/London: Wednesday, November 6, 10:30 PM–12:00am</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Paris/Berlin/Rome: Wednesday, November 6, 11:30 PM–1:00am</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: Thursday, November 7, 12:30–2:00am</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Thursday, November 7, 6:30–8:00am</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Tokyo: Thursday, November 7, 7:30–9:00am</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Darwin: Thursday, November 7, 8:00–9:30am</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Adelaide: Thursday, November 7, 9:00–10:30am</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">Brisbane: Thursday, November 7, 8:30–10:00am</font></span></li></ul></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>To register</b>, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list to receive Zoom links and CAN announcements: <u><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/KGHGCGv0oyCLB1gyMSKflFB8vYH?domain=signup.e2ma.net/" target="_blank" title="https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1930251/1916146/">https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1930251/1916146/</a></u><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Here is the abstract:<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">In the final book of Ovid’s <i>Metamorphoses</i>, Pythagoras is provided with a speech that can be read as both the defence of and argument for vegetarianism. There are, however, a number of important delimitations built into the speech that add to its significance. For Pythagoras, eating animals is ‘impious’ (<i>nefas</i>). The position is unequivocal: ‘Refrain from polluting your bodies with such an impious feast’ (<i>Parcite, mortales, dapibus temerare nefandis/corpora!</i>) The inclusive use of the second person plural imperative <i>parcite</i> (‘refrain from’) reenforcing both the coverage as well the urgency of the claim. While the act of killing may be justified if animals menace human life—Ovid even argues that such killings occur without ‘impiety’—it remains the case that animals ‘should not be eaten’ (<i>non epulanda fuerunt</i>). For Ovid, and the claim is a specific one, they should not be killed to be eaten. In order to justify his position he refers to ‘former time’ (<i>vetus ... aetas</i>) in which it was possible to live in ‘peace’ with animals. To the extent that this argument can be sustained, rights-based arguments no longer pertain since human/animal relations can be redescribed in terms of war and therefore the Ovidian legacy is the question of the possibility of living in peace with animals. The aim of the talk therefore is to investigate the extent to which Ovid’s <i>Metamorphoses</i> can be used to develop an argument for a relationship with animals structured in terms of peace rather than in terms of rights. While it falls beyond the remit of the talk, what this does is connect the question of the animal to more general philosophical concerns with peace, as for example occurs in Kant’s <i>Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch</i> (1795).</font></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">We hope to see you there, <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Callista, on behalf of Tristan and Ben </span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 12px;"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 12px;">Callista Sheridan <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 12px;">Critical Antiquities Network <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/pv3gCJyBrGfQBqX4YiGhQFyvBXT?domain=criticalantiquities.org/"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 12px;">criticalantiquities.org</font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></font></p></body></html>