István Zoltan Zardai & Yasuhiro Yotsumoto

Online (Live from Tokyo)

A recording of this event is available below

Date & Time

7pm in Tokyo / 10am London (UTC)
Saturday 12th December 2020

Istvan Zoltan Zardai

István Zardai

Philosopher

Yasuhiro Yotsumoto

Yasuhiro Yotsumoto

Poet

Shoko Kinoshita

Shoko Kinoshita

Translator

The first of our events to take place in a virtual setting, poet Yasuhiro Yotsumoto and philosopher Istvan Zardai hosted their conversation through Zoom.

The discussion covers a number of topics connected to the central theme of ‘Instinct’ in Midgley's work including “Beast and Man” and “Science and Poetry”, with audience joining the conversation from around the globe.

The conversation is accompanied by the release of an electronic volume. A booklet containing Yasuhiro's and Istvan's letters exchanged in preparation for the event, and a cycle of Yasuhiro's poems prompted by Midgley's work. Download this booklet (in English) in the right hand column of this page.

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Theme

Instinct

Reading

Concept of Beastliness: Philosophy, Ethics and Animal Behaviour
Philosophy, vol. 48 (1973), pp. 111-135

Mara-Daria Cojocaru & Ulrike Draesner

Venue

Online, from Munich School of Philosophy

Date & Time

5pm Munich / 4pm London (UTC+1)
Monday, 5th July 2021

Mara Daria Cojocaru

Mara Daria Cojocaru

Philosopher

Ulrike Draesner

Ulrike Draesner

Poet

Despite public life slowly being revived, Mara-Daria Cojocaru and Ulrike Draesner still had to host the event online and were joined by a diverse audience: fellow philosophers, poets, scientists, teachers and students came to discuss Midgley's 1973 Concept of Beastliness-paper, hear new work from Ulrike, one of Germany's most prominent contemporary authors whose work has received numerous prizes in all categories: from novels to poetry, essays to nature writing. She was hence perfect to talk in depth about the distinction Midgley introduces and criticizes in the paper: that between the Beast Within and the Beast Without, to reflect on the missives from Paris on language, and to explore the challenges in writing about other animals and the very specific potential that poetry can offer here. Blessed with an intelligent and devoted audience, the conversation could have gone for much longer ... had not the cookies run out.

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Theme

Beasts

Reading

The Concept of Beastliness
Midgley, M. (1973)
Philosophy 48 (184):111-135