The Programme
Friday 26 April 2013
2.30-3.00 Registration and tea and coffee
3.00-3.15 Welcome and Introduction. Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde)
3.15-4.30 Plenary 1 (Chair: Erica Fudge)
Vinciane Despret (Université de Liège),' Domesticating Wild Animals: The Case of Arabian Babblers' [click here to listen to the paper]
4.30-5.00 tea/coffee - sponsored by Penn State University Press, and the series 'Animalibus'
5.00-6.00 Panel 1: Aesthetics and Animals. Chair: Steve Baker (emeritus University of Central Lancashire)
Amelie Bjorck (Lund University), 'Primate Portraits: Anthropocentric Versus Negative Mimesis' [click here to listen to the paper]
Alastair Hunt (Portland State University), 'The Law of Wild Surmise' [click here to listen to the paper]
6.15-7.30 Musical Interlude with Drinks: Introduced by Madeleine Rooney (University of Strathclyde)
Chris T-T: Animal Songs and Stories
7.45 BASN Buffet at the 13th Note on King Street.
Saturday 27 April 2013
9.30-10.45 Plenary 2 (Chair: Erica Fudge)
Sarah Franklin (Cambridge University), Watching Sheep with Sheepwatchers
10.45-11.15 tea/coffee - sponsored by Columbia University Press
11.15-12.15 Panel 2: Spectacle and Spectatorship. Chair: Tom Tyler (Oxford Brookes University)
David Wilson (Leicester University), '“Samson Making Sport for the Philistines”: 'Wild Nature' in the Music Hall and Circus' [click here to listen to the paper]
Lourdes Orozco (Leeds University), 'There and Not There: Looking at Animals in Contemporary Performance' [click here to listen to the paper]
12.15-1.15 lunch
1.15-2.45 Panel 3: Seeing Difficulties. Chair: Franklin Ginn (Edinburgh University)
Karen Lykke Syse (University of Oslo), 'Getting Close: The Sensory Experience of Deer Stalking' [click here to listen to the paper]
Dominic Duckett (James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen), 'Ubiquitous computing and its implications for livestock disease control' [click here to listen to the paper]
Isla Forsyth (University of Nottingham), 'Observing the Obscure' [click here to listen to the paper]
2.45-3.15 tea/coffee
3.15-4.15 Panel 4: Re-viewing. Chair: Anat Pick (Queen Mary, University of London)
Nola Semczyszyn (Franklin and Marshall College, PA), 'Looking Both Ways: How Visual Acts Alter What it Means to See Animals' [click here to listen to the paper]
Brett Mills (University of East Anglia), 'Towards a Theory of Documentary Representation for Animals' [sadly Brett was unable to attend because of illness, so his paper was not given]
4.15-4.30 Discussion
4.30 Close
4.15-4.30 Discussion
4.30 Close