This meeting will be held on campus (in person) in the McCance Building at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and also online via zoom. It will take place on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 May. To register to attend the in person event, please click here. Details to attend on zoom will be shared nearer the date of the meeting.
Programme
Friday 19 May 2023
1.30-2.00 Registration
2.00-3.00 – Plenary 1
John Miller (University of Sheffield), titleTBC
3.00-4.00 – Panel 1: New Paths
Dominic O’Key (University of Sheffield): ‘Animal Studies in the Sixth Extinction’
Nancy J. Jacobs (Brown University): ‘The Psittacine Plantationocene’
4.00-4.20 – coffee
4.20-5.50 – Panel 2: Disciplinary Questions
Nina Vieira, Catarina Simões and Carla Vieira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): ‘Animal Biographies: a Way Forward in Animal Studies and Environmental History’
Pete Porter (University of Groningen / Eastern Washington University): ‘What are the Prospects for Animal Film Studies?’
Jamie Arathoon (University of Edinburgh): ‘Towards an Agenda for Animal and Disability Geographies (Studies)’
6.00-7.00 – Performance by BASN Writer in Residence
Susan Richardson, ‘Where the Seal Sings’
7.30 – late – BASN Buffet at Saramago Bar, Centre for Contemporary Art, Buchanan Street
Saturday 20 May 2023
9.30-11.30 – Panel 3: Animal Places
Niall Ingham (Glasgow University): ‘”Grazing in Full Sight of Everyone”: Present and Future Scope for Human-Animal Studies in the Context of Late-Modern Scottish Highlands and Islands’
Alexandra Tretakov and Nadine Menzel (Leipzig University/Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): ‘Animal Poetics in Slavic Literatures’
Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw): ‘Animal Studies in Poland, 2013-2023: From Controversy to … Harmony?’
Madonna Kalousian (University of Cambridge): ‘Gardens of Species: Catastrophe and Decomposing Ecotopias in Lebanese Literature’
11.30-11.50 – coffee
11.50-12.50 – Plenary 2:
Jonathan Saha (Durham University) ‘Decolonizing Animals: Burmese Elephants and the End of Empire’
12.50-1.30 – lunch
1.30-2.30 – Plenary 3:
Eva Giraud (University of Sheffield) title TBC
2.30-3.30 – Panel 4: Activism
Mark E. Dunick (University of Wellington / Stirling University): ‘Learning from the Liberation Leagues’
Lynda M. Korimboccus (University of East Anglia / West Lothian College): ‘Vegan Sociology: Academic Activism from and for the Margins’
3.30 – End
Source and more information: https://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/FutureMeetings/StateoftheField.aspx