Friday 2nd November
1:30-2:00 Registration. Tea and coffee on arrival for all attendees
2:00-2:10 Welcome and Introduction from Henry Buller (University of Exeter)
2:10-3:10 Plenary 1 – Clara Mancini (Open University)
‘Animals as Co-Designers of Machine Interactions’ [to listen to the paper click here]
3:10-4:10 Panel 1
Felicity McWilliams (Kings College London)
‘Equine Machines: horses and tractors on British farms, 1920-1960’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Taija Kaarlenkaski (University of Eastern Finland)
‘Cows and Humans as Machine Users: Discourses of Milking Robots in Contemporary Finland’
4:10-4:30 Tea, Coffee, and Cake!
4:30-6:00 Panel 2
Steve North (University of Exeter)
‘A Computational Anthrozoology Perspective on Horse-Machine Interaction: Explored Through the Umamimi Robotic Horse Ears’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Andrew Mitchell (Stockholm University)
‘Human-Canid Technologies: GPS and Sensing Beyond Species Boundaries’
Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
‘Resurrecting Species through Robotics: Animal Extinction and Deextinction in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ [to listen to the paper click here]
7:30 – late Conference Meal, Herbies
Saturday 3rd November
9:00-10:00 Plenary 2 – Ed Ramsden (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Automatic Animals and their Misbehaviour: Exhibiting Nature and Behaviour at the Zoo’
10:00-10:30 Tea and Coffee
10:30-12:00 Panel 3
Ryan Sweet (University of Plymouth)
‘Victorian Animal-Machines: Prostheticised Animals in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Ivana Bičak (Durham University)
‘Experimental Machines and Animals in Early Modern Literature’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Antonella Sciancalepore (Universite Catholoque de Louvain)
‘Human, Animal and Technology: Multiple Hybridizations In Perceforest’ [to listen to the paper click here]
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:45 Plenary 3 – Amelia DeFalco (University of Leeds)
‘Machine Animals/Animal Machines: Bodies that Matter in the Age of Robotics and Biotechnology’ [to listen to the paper click here]
1:45-2:00 Tea and Coffee
2:00-4:00 Panel 4
Emilia Czątkowska (University of Kent)
‘“U.R. Bandit.”Post-animal identity of the Animal Biorgs in We3’
Bianca Friedman (University of Pisa)
‘“That Dog Is Real”: Queer Identities in the New Wes Anderson’s Film Isle Of Dogs’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell (Royal Holloway)
‘Gaming Creatures - the Posthuman Menageries Of Monster Hunter World’ [to listen to the paper click here]
4.00 Close
Abstracts of papers and biographies of speakers can be found here.
