[SydPhil] University of Wollongong Agora Seminar Series: Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) & Tristan Bradshaw (University of Wollongong)

[Elena Walsh]

Dear all,



The second seminar in this semester's Agora series will be:


*A/Professor Dinesh Wadiwel (The University of Sydney) and Dr. Tristan
Bradshaw (The University of Wollongong)*

*Animals and Capital: Animals as Commodities *


Thursday, March 27, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

The University of Wollongong, Keiraville campus

Building 20, Room 4



*Abstract: *

In this dialogue, Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) and Tristan
Bradshaw (University of Wollongong) will discuss the philosophy of the
commodity form as described by Karl Marx is Capital Vol.1, and its
implications for animals as raw materials within animal agriculture and as
eventual consumption products. Dinesh and Tristan will reflect on the
philosophical problem of how an object or relation becomes 'commodified'
and consider what this means for understanding contemporary human animal
relations. This dialogue will mark the occasion of the soft cover release
of Dinesh's book, Animals and Capital (Edinburgh UP 2023).



*Bios: *

Dinesh Wadiwel is Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal
studies at University of Sydney. He is author of Animals and Capital
(Edinburgh UP, 2023), The War against Animals (Brill, 2015) and is
co-editor, with Matthew Chrulew of Foucault and Animals (Brill 2017).
Dinesh is also a disability rights researcher and was part of a team of
researchers who have produced two reports for the Royal Commission into
Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.



Tristan Bradshaw is a political theorist and classicist with a particular
focus on Aristotle and his receptions in contemporary critical theories,
especially Marx and post-Marxism. After three years at the University of
Sydney as lecturer in political theory and then postdoctoral research
fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, he joined the
School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong as Lecturer in 2022.
He received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University in
2021, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon doctoral fellow. He also co-directs,
with Dr Ben Brown (University of Sydney), the Critical Antiquities Network
(CAN) and its monthly online forum, the Critical Antiquities Workshop. For
more information on CAN, go to criticalantiquities.org.



All are very welcome and there is no need to register. This is an in-person
event.


Best wishes,

Elena


--

*Dr. Elena Walsh*

Lecturer

School of Liberal Arts

Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | 94.19

University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia

*T *+61 2 4220 5692

*W *elenawalsh.squarespace.com
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