the last ever meeting
‘Neighbours’
26-27 April 2024
This meeting will take place in person at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in the McCance Building on Richmond Street, in MC301
Programme
Friday 26 April
Maan Barua (University of Cambridge): ‘The Politics of Commensality’
3.10-4.10 – Panel 1: Bad Neighbours
Marissa Crannell-Ash (University of Rochester, NY): ‘Bad Pigs, Bad Neighbors: Pigs as Community Members in Late Medieval Burgundy’
Hannah Fair (University of Oxford): ‘Squalid Natures: unwanted entanglements in the more-than-human home’
4.50-5.50 – Panel 2: Rethinking Relations
Andrew Gardiner (Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh): ‘Taenia saginata’s last words’
Ruby Sleigh (Architect’s Climate Action Network Ecology Group): ‘Unavoidant Entanglements: negotiated space with “those who bite”’
6.10-7.00
Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde): 'A Whistle-Stop History of BASN'
Susan Richardson, BASN Writer in Residence: some poems for BASN
7.30 – late – BASN Buffet at Mono, Kings Court, Glasgow
9.30-11.30 – Panel 3: Neighbourly Environments
Hannah Mortimer (University of Exeter): ‘Exploring the varying degrees of human-animal friendship, closeness and attachment on regenerative farms’
Diogo de Carvalho Cabral (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘Gardens of Discord: Cultural Landscapes Beyond the Human’
Djoeke van Netten (University of Amsterdam): ‘Arctic Neighbours. An Animal History of the Wintering on Novaya Zemlya 1596-1597'
Thom Rath (UCL): ‘Good Neighborly Creatures? A Possible History of Animals and Interamerican Relations, 1930s-60s'
11.50-12.50 – Plenary 2: Isabel Galleymore (Birmingham University): ‘Why Look at (Stuffed) Animals: In Dialogue with Cute Studies’
1.30-3.00 – Panel 4: Cultures of Neighbourliness
Catherine Sidwell (Kingston School of Art): ‘Avian Neighbours: Birds in the Late-Nineteenth-Century English Domestic Interior’
Ezgi Hamzaçebi (Özyeğin University): ‘In Praise of Hesitation as Ethics’
Emily Doolittle and Alex South (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland): ‘Gardenscape’
3.00 - Ending: Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde)
