Symposium June 2021

This paper explores human-bovine relationalities and biopolitics through a decolonial more-than-human reading of the current stray cattle crisis, which many North Indian states have been facing over the last few years

The paper suggests two case-studies as starting points of an interrogation of the human in relation to the animal through a posthumanist lens.

This paper explores how North Indian raga music can be understood as a sonic-ritual that functions as an interface opening to outside of thought, or beyond the human register.

A.K. Ramanujan’s “A Flowering Tree” reports a popular folktale from the Kannada oral tradition where the female protagonist transforms into a tree and gradually achieves agency. This paper argues that the tale makes possible the acknowledgement of the life-force (“zoe”) present in all the non-human life-forms constituting ecology.