The conference programme of the 4th European Critical Animal Studies conference (6 and 7 October 2015) – including abstracts and bios – is now online!
6 October
8:30 – 8:45 – Registration (room Multiusos 3)
8:45 – 9:00 – Welcoming and presentation (room Multiusos 2)
9:00 – 9:50 – Keynote Session
The Histories and Politics of a Critical Animal Studies, by Richard Twine (Edge Hill University) – Room Multiusos 2
9:50 – 10:00 – Break
10:00 – 11:40
Animals, identities, colonialism (or Animals and the Other) (Room Multiusos 2)
- Wildlife, hunting and colonialism in central Mozambique in the early 20th century, by Bárbara Direito (IHC – FCSH/UNL
- The human representation of animals as the other, in a cross-cultural, western perspective, by Isa Rasmussen (Copenhagen University)
- From whale to whale: nation and identity in Australia’s opposition to Japanese whaling, by Colin Salter (University of Wollongong)
- The street dog and the slum dweller: twin victims of urban renewal in modern India, by Lisa Warden (Independent Researcher)
Philosophy, Ethics, Ontology (Room Multiusos 3)
- The Anthropocentrism of Anti-realism, by Leonardo Caffo (Università degli studi di Torino)
- Animal liberation as the ability to overstep ourselves, by Roberto Marchesini (Centre Study for Posthuman Philosophy and SIUA – School of Human Animal Interaction)
- The immortal life of the species? Political Theology and Animality in Arendt’s The Human Condition, by Diego Rossello (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- Expanding the Harm Principle to a Posthumanist Ethic: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1869) enhanced by Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (2013), by Brandon Taylor (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
11:40 – 12:00 – Break
12:00 – 13.30
Agency and history (Room Multiusos 2)
- The Spontaneous Horse: Understanding what liberation means from the horse’s point of view, by Francesco De Giorgio & José De Giorgio-Schoorl (Learning Animals, Institute for Zooanthropology)
- “An Alligator Got Betty”: Dangerous Animals as Historical Agents, by Krista Maglen (Indiana University)
- Animal voices: history, agency, and the politics of language, by Eva Meijer (University of Amsterdam)
Animals, Sustainability and the Anthropocene (Room Multiusos 3)
- Seeking Justice in the Anthropocene: The Shape of Things to Come, by Jodey Castricano (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
- Human-animal interactions: a sustainable relationship?, by Pim Martens (Maastricht University)
- Animals in religion and sustainable development: recognition and reorientation, by Yamini Narayanan (Deakin University)
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 16:10
Food Production, Research and Welfare (Room Multiusos 2)
- About confined freedoms and shared lives: animals, humans and welfare in beef cattle breeding farms, by Graciela Froehlich (University of Brasilia)
- “Animal welfare” and “economic efficiency” according to the official discourse of Portuguese livestock industry, by Rui Pedro Fonseca (CIES-IUL)
- Food production’s Post-Animal Turn? In Vitro Meat, the Subsumption of Nature, and Non-existence as Animal Liberation, by Erik Jönsson (Lund University)
- A Critical Review of Animal Research Applications, by Kathrin Herrmann (State Office of Health and Social Affairs Berlin & Freie Universität Berlin)
Animals and Anarchism (Room Multiusos 3)
- The ethics of vegan anarchism & the squatters’ movement, by tina cubberley (Independent Researcher – Dublin, Ireland)
- Subhuman and nonhuman animals: the crossroads between animal liberation, feminism, punk and anarchism within portuguese punk zines of the early 1990s, by Ana Mateus (Universidade de Coimbra)
- Anarchism and Animals, Friederike Schmitz (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Against the Animal as an Anthropocentric Concept: Exploring the Ahuman, by Agnes Trzak (Anglia Ruskin University)
16:10 – 16-30 – Break
16:30 – 17:50
Animals, Art and Multimedia (Room Multiusos 2)
- In black and white: explorations on Animalario by Nuria Cubas, by Vanessa Badagliacca (FCSH-UNL)
- Feminism and Animals: Revenge Through Contemporary Art, by Miguel Bonneville (Lisbon, Portugal)
- The Filmic Order and Animal Studies, by Ilda Castro (IFILNOVA-UNL)
Animal Studies em português (Room Multiusos 3)
- Um Processo Social em Análise: Por uma nova Lei de Protecção aos Animais, by Henrique Chaves (FCSH-UNL)
- A ferida que nos separa: a Máquina Antropológica e o Animal, by Paulo Figueiredo (CECL/ FCSH-UNL)
- “Lesbos”, animot, mulheres e animais: os outros in(con)formados, by Andreia Marin (Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro)
17:50 – 18:00 – Break
18:00 – 19:00 – Keynote Session
Taking Stock of the Scholarly ‘Animal Turn’: An exploration of the innovative, politicised and tainted nature of human-animal scholarship, by Rhoda Wilkie (University of Aberdeen) – Room Multiusos 2
7 October
9:00 – 10:20
Animals in “Sport” and Entertainment (Room Multiusos 2)
- The genderisation of animal cruelty in bullfights in Portugal, by Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues (University of Fort Hare) & Emanuele Achino (Università degli Studi di Torino)
- Human Competitions Involving Nonhuman Animals, by Nico Müller (University of Zurich)
- Anarchists and the legislative dilemma – the 2004 Hunting Act in England and Wales, by Will Boisseau (Loughborough University)
- Black and white or grey? Considering the ambiguous status of the badger, by Delia Langstone (University of East London)
10:20 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 12:20
Gender and Feminism (Room Multiusos 2)
- You call me a ‘bitch’ Like it’s a bad thing: Animal liberation in Feminist Media, by Juawana Grant (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
- Carnism, gender and sexuality: visual and discursive articulations in fast-food ads, Anabela Santos (University of Minho)
- Animal Symbolism in the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Monika Holder (University of Warsaw)
- The master’s wife, children and animals – the order of carnophallogocentrism, by Annette Kristensson (Stockholm University)
Debates and questions (Room Multiusos 3)
- Is the animal rights movement a social movement?, by Pierre André-Gagnon (University of Ottawa)
- ‘Is Our Position Utopian?’ Inheriting Utopia and the Im/possibility of Animal Liberation Today, by Francis Tarpey (La Trobe University)
- Questioning the Concept of Vegan Privilege from a Critical Animal Studies Perspective, by Jessica Greenebaum (Central Connecticut State University)
- Deconstructing Vegetarianism: Is Derrida’s “Question of the Animal” Important to Critical Animal Studies?, by Yoav Kenny (University of California)
12:20 – 12:30 – Break
12:30 – 13:30 – Workshop: “Letter writing to political prisoners“, by Livia Boscardin (Room Multiusos 2)
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 15:20 – Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood book launch, by Matthew Cole (Room Multiusos 2)
15:20 – 15:30 – Break
15:30 – 17:20
Intersectionality (Room Multiusos 2)
- Total liberation or animal rights only? Intersectionality in the agenda and composition of the AR movement in the Baltic States through narratives of AR activists, by Kadri Aavik & Kristina Mering (Tallinn University and animal advocacy organization Loomus)
- One struggle, one fight? What is “intersectional activism,” and how can we build solidarity between radical-emancipatory movements? Experiences from an animal rights group in Switzerland, by Livia Boscardin (Animal Rights Group Basel and University of Basel)
- Blind Certainty: Problematising Anthropocentric Ontologies in Animal Liberation, by Jana Canavan (Lund University)
- Challenging Racism and Ableism within Animal Advocacy, Anthony Nocella (Institute for Critical Animal Studies)
Changing Attitudes and Promoting Animal Liberation (Room Multiusos 3)
Critical Animal Pedagogy: Explorations toward Reflective Practice, by Karin Gunnarson Dinker (Swansea University) & Helena Pedersen (Stockholm University)
- The sprouting of a “Nonhuman Animal Spring” in Mexico: The surge of animal protection activities, will it work out, by Norma Contreras Hernández (Universiteit Twente), Hans Th.A. Bressers (Universiteit Twente), Louise Greathouse-Amador (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) & Nadiezdha M.P. Crespo Rosas (University of Bristol)
- Narrative Power and Animal Liberation, or How to Experiment on Humans for the Good of the Animals and Get Away with It, Wojciech Małecki (University of Wrocław)
- Social psychology approach toward animal liberation, by Tereza Vandrovcová (Charles University, Prague)
17:20 – 17:30 – Break
17:30 – 18:30 – Keynote Session