Programme
‘Working with Animals’
6 and 7 October 2017
This meeting of the British Animal Studies Network took place at the Highfield Campus of the University of Southampton under the direction of Dr Emma Roe.
Friday 6 October
12.30-1.30 Arrival and Registration: tea and coffee available: bring your own lunch
1.30-1.40 Welcome and Introduction Emma Roe (University of Southampton)
1.40-2.35. Plenary 1 (Chair: Dr Emma Roe)
Garry Marvin (University of Roehampton), ‘Breeding Bulls and Making Fighting Bulls: The Creation of Cultural Wildness’ [to listen to the paper click here]
2.35-4.05 Panel 1: Spaces of Animal Work I
William Gervase Clarence-Smith (SOAS, University of London), ‘Mules and the making of modernity, c1400-c1945’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Bel Deering (RSPCA West Hatch), ‘Blurred lines: exploring the world of animals at the edges of work’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Beth Savage (Teeside University), ‘The problematic inconsistency of Animal Death in the Mind of a Living Artist (or Working with Animals after Damien Hirst)’ [to listen to the paper click here]
4.00-4.30 Tea/Coffee
4.30-5.30 Panel 2: Spaces of Animal Work II
Jane Desmond (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ‘Human doctors working with non-human patients: the veterinary medical clinic as trans-species border zone’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Asha Hornsby (UCL), A Labour of Love (?): Affective/Effective Human-Animal Relations in the Victorian Laboratory’ [to listen to the paper click here]
6.00-7.15 Plenary 2
John Bradshaw. (University of Bristol), ‘Animals in Our Midst: How did Pet-Keeping Evolve?’ [to listen to the paper click here]
8.00- Vegetarian Buffet Meal at Thai Mango, Portswood (TBC)
Saturday 7 October
9.00-9.30 Coffee/tea available
9.30-11.00 Panel 3: Farm Animals as Workers
Sarah Czerny (University of Rijecka, Croatia) ‘Interspecies Milk Production in Croatia: A Difference in Approaches’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Lloyd Price (Cardiff University and University of Bristol), ‘Wandering Bulls, Labouring Bullocks and the “Vicious Circle of Decline” in Early Twentieth Century North India’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Charlotte Blattner (“Tier im Recht” Foundation in Zurich/Queen’s University, Canada), ‘The Achilles Heel of Animal Labour: Are Farm Animals Workers?’ [to listen to the paper click here]
11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30-12.30 Panel 4: Humans Working with Animals II
Abigail Woods (KCL), ‘Working with Grouse: Science, Medicine and Shooting in Scotland c1860-1914’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Victoria Carr (Independent scholar) ‘“Contrary to nature, kind, proportion and likeness”: Witches and their Animal Familiars in Early Modern England’ [to listen to the paper click here]
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.25 Plenary 3
Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde), ‘What a Lamb Meant to an Early Modern Farmer’ [to listen to the paper click here]
2.30-3.30 Panel 5: Humans Working with Animals II
Katrina Holland (UCL), ‘Body Work and the Cultivation of “Response-able” Relations between Dog Trainers and their Canine Co-workers Detecting Cancer’ [to listen to the paper click here]
Justyna Wlodarczyk (University of Warsaw), ‘The Llama that Could: Affective Labour: The Curious case of Emotional Support Animals in the US’ [to listen to the paper click here]
3.30-4.00 Closing Discussion with a cup of tea
4.30 END
For abstracts of papers and biogs of speakers click here.