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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Dear all,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A quick reminder that at the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are very excited to host </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Andrew Benjamin</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (Monash/Melbourne University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Living in Peace with Animals: Pythagoras’ Speech in Ovid’s </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Metamorphoses<i> </i></span></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The event will take place on <b>Thursday, November 7</b>, <b>09:30–11:00 AM (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne time).</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The event will also be in a hybrid format broadcast from the
<b>School of Humanities Common Room (Rm 822, Brennan-MacCallum Building, University of Sydney) and on zoom.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the time in other locations:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Los Angeles/Vancouver: Wednesday, November 6, 2:30–4:00pm</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Mexico City: Wednesday, November 6, 4:30–6:00pm</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Chicago: Wednesday, November 6, 4:30–6:00pm</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">New York: Wednesday, November 6, 5:30–7:00pm</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: Wednesday, November 6, 7:30–9:00pm</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Dublin/Belfast/London: Wednesday, November 6, 10:30 PM–12:00am</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Paris/Berlin/Rome: Wednesday, November 6, 11:30 PM–1:00am</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: Thursday, November 7, 12:30–2:00am</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Thursday, November 7, 6:30–8:00am</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Tokyo: Thursday, November 7, 7:30–9:00am</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Darwin: Thursday, November 7, 8:00–9:30am</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Adelaide: Thursday, November 7, 9:00–10:30am</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Brisbane: Thursday, November 7, 8:30–10:00am</li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To register</b>, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list to receive Zoom links and CAN announcements: <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Q1ufCyojxQTyL4ovquMhgHxKT99?domain=signup.e2ma.net/" title="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/wrwtCyojxQTy7rnljiZfpFx7R3h?domain=signup.e2ma.net/">https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1930251/1916146/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the abstract:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We hope to see you there, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Ben</p>
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<i>Philosophy, Politics and Critique</i> 1.2, 2024, 165–184.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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