‘Violence’
This series of online events
took place across March, April and May 2021.
Event 1: Dinesh Wadiwel in conversation 11.00am-1.00pm GMT on Friday 19 March 2021
Discussion: animals and violence with Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) and Eva Haifa Giraud (Keele University)
A recording of this conversation can be watched here.
Event 2: Farming and Slaughter 2.00-4.00 BST on Friday 16 April 2021
Orla Shortall (James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen) ‘Is Year-Round Housing of Dairy Cows a Form of Violence?’
Emily Morgan (Iowa State University) ‘“You are Walking Through Blood”: Routine and Rupture in the Packinghouse’
Sune Borkfelt (Aarhus University) ‘Staring Your Meal Square in the Eye: The Slaughterhouse as Gothic Space’
A recording of these talks can be found here
Event 3: Violent Analogies 2.00-4.00 BST on Friday 23 April 2021
Jesseka Batteau (Utrecht University) ‘Visibility of Violence and Historical Analogy: Multidirectional memory and the treatment of animals’
Thomas Aiello (Valdosta State University in Georgia) ‘Death to Pigs: Animals, Race, and the Semiotics of Material Culture in the United States’
Josh Milburn (University of Sheffield) ‘Should We Protect Animals from Hate Speech?’
A recording of these talks can be found here
Event 4: Power and Representation 2.00-4.00 BST on Friday 30 April 2021
Kathryn Haley-Halinski (University of Cambridge) ‘“Ófleygr ok fjaðrlauss”: Plucked Hawks and the Personhood of Birds Of Prey in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature’
David Gould (University of Leeds) ‘Violence Between the Cuts: A Reassessment of the BBFC’s Stance on Animal Abuse in Films’
Danielle Sands (Royal Holloway, University of London) ‘“The Siren Song of Entomology”: Nostalgia, Violence and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Nature Writing’
A recording of these talks can be found here
Event 5: Science / Fiction / Technology 2.00-4.00 BST on Friday 7 May 2021
Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) ‘Beyond Bizarre: The Spectacular Failure of B.F. Skinner’s Pigeon-Guided Missiles’
Peter Sands (University of Sheffield) ‘Paranoid entanglements: control, communication and violence in the work of John C. Lilly’
Simon Ryle (University of Split) ‘Meat Hand’
A recording of these talks can be found here
Event 6: Susan Richardson: Animals, Poetry, Violence 7.30-8.30pm BST Thursday 24 June 2021
The British Animal Studies Network is very pleased to welcome back its poet-in-residence, Ted Hughes Award Shortlisted, Susan Richardson to complete its series of online events on the theme of ‘Violence’. Susan will read her work and be in conversation with Erica Fudge
A recording of this event can be found here
Abstracts and Biographies of Speakers can be found here