On May 2nd 2014 the Authority Research Network co-convened, with the Public Science Project CUNY, a workshop on "Participatory Democracy for the Non-Living and Non-Human" in New York. Plenary discussants were Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins), Maria Torre & Rachel Liebert (CUNY Public Science), and Julian Brigstocke (Plymouth University). Papers included:
- Anatoli Ignatov How Land Speaks: Orature and ecological change
- Michelle Bastian Multi-Species Methods: Participatory research and the More-than-Human
- Gwendolyn Blue Animal Publics: Political subjectivity after the human subject
- Aaron Goodfellow ‘It’s a Killing Machine Just Waiting for You’: Chemical dependency,
slave narratives, and biological citizenship in Baltimore Maryland - Tehseen Noorani Psychedelic Experience: Knowing through encounters with the non-human
- Naveeda Khan From Metamorphosis to Sentience in Plants: Two approaches
- Ali Lara Spicy and Thermoception: The affective experience of eating street food
- Ananya Mukherjea and Jeffrey Bussolini La Vie en Commun: Cat yoga
- Catherine D’Ignazio The Babbling Brook
- Amy Hicks With the Animal in Mind: Searching for the girl with the hairy paw
- Andres Marquez-Lara Imagining and Embodying ‘Others’: How theater helps us explore
- the relationship between humans and non‐present, non‐human and non‐living ‘others’
- Rita Turner Re‐Imagining Human Relationships with the More‐Than‐Human World
- Fernando Quigua and Joshua W. Clegg Toward an Aesthetic Science
- Swayam Bagaria Touching the ‘Untouchable’: Reflections from contemporary Dalit
criticism - Elan Abrell Collaborative Rescue: Non‐human agency in animal sanctuaries
- Sam Kirwan The ‘Others’ of Advice Work
- María Torre The Co‐Minglings of Solidarity and Participation in Community Research on Policing
- Claire Blencowe The Holy Spirit and the Dream of Democracy: From Hydra to Hercules (and back?)