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‘Working with Animals’

 

 

6 and 7 October 2017 

 

This meeting of the British Animal Studies Network took place at the Highfield Campus of the University of Southampton under the direction of Dr Emma Roe.

 

Friday 6 October

 

12.30-1.30 Arrival and Registration: tea and coffee available: bring your own lunch

 

1.30-1.40 Welcome and Introduction Emma Roe (University of Southampton)

 

1.40-2.35. Plenary 1 (Chair: Dr Emma Roe)

Garry Marvin (University of Roehampton), ‘Breeding Bulls and Making Fighting Bulls: The Creation of Cultural Wildness’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

2.35-4.05  Panel 1: Spaces of Animal Work I

William Gervase Clarence-Smith (SOAS, University of London), ‘Mules and the making of modernity, c1400-c1945’  [to listen to the paper click here]

Bel Deering (RSPCA West Hatch), ‘Blurred lines: exploring the world of animals at the edges of work’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Beth Savage (Teeside University), ‘The problematic inconsistency of Animal Death in the Mind of a Living Artist (or Working with Animals after Damien Hirst)’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

4.00-4.30 Tea/Coffee

 

4.30-5.30 Panel 2: Spaces of Animal Work II

Jane Desmond (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ‘Human doctors working with non-human patients: the veterinary medical clinic as trans-species border zone’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Asha Hornsby (UCL), A Labour of Love (?): Affective/Effective Human-Animal Relations in the Victorian Laboratory’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

6.00-7.15 Plenary 2

John Bradshaw. (University of Bristol), ‘Animals in Our Midst: How did Pet-Keeping Evolve?’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

8.00- Vegetarian Buffet Meal at Thai Mango, Portswood (TBC)

 
 

Saturday 7 October

 

9.00-9.30 Coffee/tea available

 

9.30-11.00 Panel 3:  Farm Animals as Workers

Sarah Czerny (University of Rijecka, Croatia) ‘Interspecies Milk Production in Croatia: A Difference in Approaches’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Lloyd Price (Cardiff University and University of Bristol), ‘Wandering Bulls, Labouring Bullocks and the “Vicious Circle of Decline” in Early Twentieth Century North India’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Charlotte Blattner (“Tier im Recht” Foundation in Zurich/Queen’s University, Canada), ‘The Achilles Heel of Animal Labour: Are Farm Animals Workers?’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee

 

11.30-12.30 Panel 4: Humans Working with Animals II

Abigail Woods (KCL), ‘Working with Grouse: Science, Medicine and Shooting in Scotland c1860-1914’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Victoria Carr (Independent scholar) ‘“Contrary to nature, kind, proportion and likeness”: Witches and their Animal Familiars in Early Modern England’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

12.30-1.30 Lunch

 

1.30-2.25 Plenary 3

Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde), ‘What a Lamb Meant to an Early Modern Farmer’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

2.30-3.30 Panel 5: Humans Working with Animals II

Katrina Holland (UCL), ‘Body Work and the Cultivation of “Response-able” Relations between Dog Trainers and their Canine Co-workers Detecting Cancer’ [to listen to the paper click here]

Justyna Wlodarczyk (University of Warsaw), ‘The Llama that Could: Affective Labour: The Curious case of Emotional Support Animals in the US’ [to listen to the paper click here]

 

3.30-4.00 Closing Discussion with a cup of tea

 

4.30 END

 

For abstracts of papers and biogs of speakers click here.