Cold Blood(ed): Enquiries into the Oddly Unloved
This meeting of the British Animal Studies Network, organised by Dr Mara Miele and Mr John Clayton (Cardiff University), took place in Committee Rooms 1 and 2 in the Glamorgan Building, University of Cardiff on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October 2015.
Programme
Friday 9 Oct
12.00-12.45 - Welcome & Registration – tea, coffee & refreshments available
12.45-1.00 - Introduction by Mara Miele
1.00-1.55 - Plenary 1: Chair Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde)
Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern University)“’Furthering research’ – Laboratory Science in Cold Blood” [to listen to the paper click here]
2.00-3.00 - Panel 1: Chair Chris Bear (Cardiff University)
Henry Buller (Exeter University), ‘Wolf Kill’ here [to listen to the paper click here]
Kathryn Halliday (York St John University), 'Blood Cities: Animal Victims in Maddaddam and Zoocity' [to listen to the paper click here]
3.00-3.30 - Coffee break – refreshments in committee rooms
3.30-5.00 – Panel 2: Chair John Clayton (Cardiff University)
Beth Greenhough (University of Oxford) and Emma Roe (University of Southampton), ‘Caring in Cold-blood: Sensing and responding to the needs of aquatic species in the laboratory’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Nadia Farage (University of Campinas),“Blood calls blood”: naturist theses on pacifism and vegetarianism [to listen to the paper click here]
Colin Salter (University of Wollongong), ‘(Re)inscribing animality in cultural others’ [to listen to the paper click here]
5.00-5.15 Closing Remarks: Mara Miele (Cardiff University)
Saturday 10 Oct
10.00–10.30 - Welcome, tea, coffee & refreshments provided
10.30–11.25 – Plenary 3: Chair Johnathan Prior (Cardiff University)
Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh), ‘Herpetological Beauty’ [to listen to the paper click here]
11.30-12.30 - Panel 3: Chair Beth Greenhough (Oxford University)
Sarah Wade (University College London), ‘Sharks and Humanity at The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Richard Gorman (Cardiff University),’Cold-Blooded Animals in Therapeutic Spaces: Affective Encounters with Unfamiliar Species’ [to listen to the paper click here]
12.30-1.30 - Lunch (provided)
1.30-2.30 - Panel 4: Chair Emma Roe (Southampton University)
Rodolfo Piskorski da Silva (Cardiff University), ‘Heidegger’s Lizard, or the As-Such of the Sun’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Fiona MacDonald (Artist), ‘Ant-ic Actions – an experiential exploration of the ethics of co-production’ [to listen to the paper click here]
2.30-3.00 - Coffee break
3.00-4.00 - Panel 5: Chair Henry Buller (Exeter University)
Bonita Alice (Artist),‘Psychopathy aside, perhaps cold-bloodedness is a condition we enter into out of need’. [to listen to this paper click here]
Susan Richardson (Poet), ‘Writing in Cold Blood: Thirty ways of looking at the sea’ [to listen to the paper click here]
4.00 close
Abstracts and biogs of speakers can be found here.
