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This meeting was held on Friday 14 November 2014 and Saturday 15 November 2014 at the University of Exeter under the direction of Professor Henry Buller.   

 

 The Programme 

Friday 14 November

2.00-2.30   Coffee and Welcome from Henry Buller (Workshop Chair)

2.30-3.30   Plenary 1:

Gail Davies (University of Exeter): ‘“Smaller than or equivalent too”: the rise and replacement of the mouse as a model organism’ [to listen to the paper click here]

3.30-4.30   Panel 1

Elisabeth Wallmann (University of Warwick) ‘Eighteenth-century insects and the development of the experimental method’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Natalie Hempel de Ibarra (University of Exeter):  'Insect Brains: When and Why Size Matters in Visual Perception' [to listen to the paper click here]

4.30-5.00   Tea/Coffee break

5.00-7.00   Panel 2

Catherine Cassel (University of Michigan) 'Between Instinct and Intelligence: Empathy and Insects in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' [to listen to the paper click here]

David Tucker (University of Chester) ‘Minor Parts: Animals and Social Realist Film’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Reuben Message (London School of Economics) ‘The Parr Controversy: or, how a little fish became a big fish, and an even bigger deal’

Stephanie Lavau (University of Plymouth) ‘Good things come in small packages? The biosocial worlds of biological control and beneficial insects’ [to listen to the paper click here]

7.00-     BASN Buffet

 

Saturday 15 November

9.30-10.30   Plenary 2

Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent), 'Edward Snowden and the Ant' [to listen to the paper click here]

10.30-11.00   Tea/Coffee break

11.00-12.30   Panel 3

Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh) ‘Sticky lives: slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Anne Kelly (University of Exeter) ’Homing Mosquitoes: Tropical Vectors and Domestic Lives'

Eleanor Morgan (University College London) ‘Sticky Layers and Shimmering Weaves: making with spider silk’ [to listen to the paper click here]

12.30-1.30   Lunch

1.30-3.30   Panel 4

Angelica Caiza (University of Groningen): ‘Touched by a bat: Encounters between bats and people’

Jamie Lorimer (University Oxford) ‘Life in us: microbiopolitics and parasitic worms’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Jacob Bull (University of Uppsala) ‘Companionable meetings with ticks: parasites and symbiosis’ [to listen to the paper click here]

3.00-3.30   Tea/Coffee

3.30-5.00   Panel 5

Astrid Schraeder (University of Exeter) ‘How (Not) To Care About Deformed Leaf Bugs in the Aftermath of Chernobyl’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Senna Middelveld (University of Aberdeen) '(In)visible Noise Makers: Sheep Scab Mites in Scotland' [to listen to the paper click here]

Elizabeth Johnson (University of Exeter) ‘Deciding on the Uncompanionable’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 5.00-5.30   Final Discussion and End


                            

 

 

Praise for Smaller than a Mouse

 

‘The meeting was a great chance to share my work with such an exciting and diverse group. I look forward to future events.'                                          Eleanor Morgan (artist)