Programme
This meeting of the British Animal Studies Network was in the Collins Building at the University of Strathclyde in central Glasgow.
Friday 27 April
2.00-2.30 coffee/registration
2.30-3.30 – Plenary 1 – Andy Butterworth (University of Bristol)
‘Dressed in a Terminological Coat’ [to listen to the paper click here]
3.30-4.30 – Panel 1 – Law and Animal Sex
Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), ‘Being Zoo: Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Jessica Eisen (Harvard University), ‘Beyond the “Private” Farm: Law and Sexual Force in North American Dairying’ [to listen to the paper click here]
4.30-4.50 – coffee – sponsored by Edinburgh University Press
4.50-5.50 – Plenary 2 – Stella Sandford (Kingston University)
'Human, Animal, Plant: The Invention of Sex Difference in Natural History' [to listen to the paper click here]
5.50-6.00 – comfort break
6.00-7.00 - Panel 2 - Sex and Conservation in Scotland
Reuben Message (University of Oxford), ‘“A Plan that Seems Almost Miracle-Working”: Reproducing Fish and Social Relations in the Scottish Borders’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Shona McCombes (Central European University and University of Utrecht), ‘Wild Sex: Impotence, Excess and the Biopolitics of Species Conservation’ [to listen to the paper click here]
7.00-7.45 – Susan Richardson (British Animal Studies Network Poet in Residence)
‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ [to listen to Susan's specially commissioned poem 'Speaking Seal' click here]
8.00- bedtime - BASN Buffet
Saramago Vegan Bar, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 28 April
9.30-11.00 – Panel 3 - Sexual Sciences
André Krebber (University of Kassel / University of Edinburgh), ‘Making Species: Sexual Attraction and Animal Agency’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Ina Linge (University of Exeter), ‘Queering Butterflies: Magnus Hirschfeld, Richard Goldschmidt, and the relationship between sexology and zoology’
Sarah Bezan (University of Sheffield), 'Speculative Sex: Queering Origin Stories in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl' [to listen to the paper click here]
11.00-11.30 – coffee - sponsored by Columbia University Press
11.30-12.30 – Plenary 3 – Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
‘Crawling Matter: Spontaneous Generation from the Ancients to the Moderns’ [to listen to the paper click here]
12.30-1.15 – lunch
1.15-2.45 – Panel 4 - Animal Sexualities
Zoé Marty (Ecole du Louvre), ‘Animals as lovers: Bestiality and the Salon in 19th-Century France’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Mario Ortiz-Robles (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Freud’s Vulture’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Julien Dugnoille (University of Exeter), ‘Animal Desires: Revitalising socio-biological and evolutionary theories on animal sexualities with accounts of nonhuman animals seeking consortship for pleasure’
2.45-3.00 – concluding remarks and close
Paper Abstracts and Biographies of Speakers can be downloaded here