Programme of the CAS conference at Portugal

The conference programme of the 4th European Critical Animal Studies conference (6 and 7 October 2015) – including abstracts and bios – is now online!

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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)

Philosophy, Ethics, Ontology (Room Multiusos 3)

11:40 – 12:00 – Break
12:00 – 13.30

Agency and history (Room Multiusos 2)

Animals, Sustainability and the Anthropocene (Room Multiusos 3)

13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 16:10

Food Production, Research and Welfare (Room Multiusos 2)

Animals and Anarchism (Room Multiusos 3)

16:10 – 16-30 – Break

16:30 – 17:50

Animals, Art and Multimedia (Room Multiusos 2)

Animal Studies em português (Room Multiusos 3)

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)

10:20 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 12:20

Gender and Feminism (Room Multiusos 2)

Debates and questions (Room Multiusos 3)

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 – 15:20Our 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)

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)

17:20 – 17:30 – Break
17:30 – 18:30 – Keynote Session

Emancipation in Posthuman Times, by Erika Cudworth (University of East London) – Room Multiusos 2