Short Abstract:

The separation of different species in discourse and practice rests on the assumptions that there are clear divisions that can be affected between those species in terms of their positionalities, their causes and effects on each other and their shared environments, and indeed in their ways of being-in-the-world.

Long Abstract:

This panel examines case studies where those divisions are not clear-cut, as humans and non-humans are entangled through their proximity, mutual identification, and existence in shared spaces whose boundaries are neither definable nor enforceable. From humans and non-human primates taking behavioral cues from one another, to their shared adaptations (and maladaptations) to rapidly changing places, to the ability of zoonoses to connect them and their fates, this panel considers the particularities and elaborations of multi-species entanglements in the anthropocene, and ponders the ramifications of these entanglements for future multispecies relationships.