Working Across Disciplines on Animal History
RHN 95/2023 | Event
https://www.ruralhistory.eu/newsletter/2023/rhn-2023-095
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Organisers: Animal History Group in partnership with the FIELD Project
11–12 September 2023, hybrid conference, University of Lincoln, UK, and online
Animal History Group Summer Conference:
Working Across Disciplines on Animal History
We are delighted to announce the programme for our Summer Conference which this year is a special partnership event with the FIELD team, celebrating the conclusion of their five-year research project. FIELD is a Wellcome Trust funded project which has brought together historians, social scientists, economists and epidemiologists to investigate persisting endemic livestock disease.
Taking the interdisciplinary approach of the FIELD project as inspiration, the theme for this year’s conference is ‘Working Across Disciplines on Animal History’.
The event will be hosted at the University of Lincoln, with live-streaming enabling participation online for attendees who cannot or do not wish to travel to the event in person.
To register for both online and in person attendance please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-across-disciplines-on-animal-history-tickets-680145081247?aff=oddtdtcreator
Day One: September 11th 2023
10:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee
10:30-12:00 Panel 1
Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps: The Technological Regulation of Avian Life in the United States
Matthew Holmes, University of Stavanger
‘A Superior Race’: How Macaques Became Botanical Collectors in EJH Corner’s Singapore
Nathan Smith, National Museum of Wales
Connecting Farm Animals to Human Health in Leprosy Settlements in Colonial Nigeria, 1926-1940
Susan Iseyen, Princeton University
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Panel 2
The introduction of a “Dracula from the deeps”: how a fish became re-imagined as an aquatic invader and subjected to an elaborate eradication programme.
Vincent Bijman, Maastricht University
No strings attached – the changing fortunes of the red kite in the Anthropocene
Virginia Thomas, University of Exeter
Bones and Bearward Diaries
Liam Lewis and Hannah O’Regan, Box Office Bears AHRC Project
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Panel 3
Cattle and sheep meet artists on the FIELD
FIELD Project
The methodology of George Stubbs and its relevance to a contemporary Art & Science investigation
Liz Sherratt, University of Lincoln
Dogma versus data: challenging the mythologies of pedigree dog breeding
Alison Skipper, Royal Veterinary College
17:00-18:00 Keynote
(Re)inventing the Interdisciplinary Wheel? Environmental collaboration in past and present
Dr Angela Cassidy, University of Exeter
19:00 Conference Dinner
Day Two: September 12th 2023
10:15-10:45 Arrival and Coffee
10:45-12:15 Panel 4
‘Karl Marx, Animal Liberationist? A Challenge to Animal Studies’
Billy Godfrey, Loughborough University
Still Alive: Nonhuman Animals in the Art of Giovanni da Udine
Esme Garlake, University College London
Arts-based methods and animal history: the case of Pavlov’s dogs
Matthew Adams, University of Brighton
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:45 Panel 5
One cow leads to another
Sue Bradley, Newcastle University
Horse power to Horsepower: animal absences in Birmingham’s industrial collections
Felicity McWilliams, Birmingham Museums Trust
Teaching Citizen Bird: Animal History, Literature, and Pedagogy
Meghan Freeman and Elizabeth Cherry, Manhattanville College
14:45-15:00 Concluding Remarks
16:00-17:00 Visit – Lincoln Cathedral
Source, more info und full programme: https://animalhistorygroup.org/events/summer-conferences/summer-conference-2023/