Karlsruhe, Germany3rd European Conference for Critical Animal Studies:
Technoscientific developments and Critical Animal StudiesConference Program
8:45–9:00 | Registration – Please notice that we ask you to pay conference fees per bank transfer (no cash) | |
9:00–10:00 | Welcome Greetings and address by Arianna Ferrari, Anthony Nocella; Message from Minding Animals International. | |
10:00–11:15 | Plenary Speach by Helena Pedersen: “Abattoir Blues: Technologies of violence in animal science education” | |
Coffe break – exhibition by Hartmut Kiewert | ||
11.45–12:45 | Continental Perspectives | Literary Critical Animal Studies |
Martin Huth: Criticizing the Current Treatment of Animals with Phenomenology | Micha G. Edlich: Animal Man and the Question of the Animal | |
Conny Johnston: What’s in a face? Animal science encounters Levinas | Anne F. Pusch: The Adams and Eves versus technoscientific developments. A critical study of Atwood’s ‘The Year of the Flood’ | |
Lunch break – short presentation of the exhibition by Hartmut Kiewert | ||
14:15–15:45 | Human dominance | Sustainability and welfare |
John Sanbonmatsu: Reification as the highest stage of speciesism | Tami Torossonen: A History of Sellfare | |
Roberto Marchesini: “Anthropo-decentralizations” Nonhuman alterities and the post-human project | Livia Boscardin: Our Common Future? The Missing Animal in Sustainability Policy Discourse | |
Matthew C. Cole: ‘It’s love in a box!’ Digital media and the socialization of human species-dominance in childhood | Richard Twine: Are ‘sustainable diets’ a Trojan Horse for animal advocates? | |
Coffe break – exhibition by Hartmut Kiewert | ||
16:15–17:15 | Military uses | Biotechnology |
Colin Salter:Animals and War: dominionism, commodification and technoscience | Paola Sobbrio: The invisibility of GM animals inside the European regulations | |
Sean McCorry: Radiation Anxiety – Humanism, Nuclear Culture and Animal Life | Samuel Camenzind: On “genetic copy” – A misleading metaphor in the ethical debate on SCNT-cloning | |
17:30–19:00 | Projection of the movie “Maximum tolerated dose” and discussion with the film-maker (Karol Orzechowski) |
9:00–9:15 | Registration | |
9:15–10:45 | Meat | Experimenting |
Marcel Sebastian: Coping with violence – Working in the meat industry | Juliet MacDonald: The Art of the Diagram – modes of depicting apparatus used in Comparative Psychology experiments | |
Julia Gutjahr: The Reintegration of Animals and Slaughter in Discourses of Meat Eating | Kirsten Persson: An evil fairy in the woods – What we can learn from experimental philosophy regarding our intuitions about the moral status of non-human animals | |
Alma Massaro: Ritual slaughter – legal and theological inconsistencies | Sarah O’Brien: Experimentation – Testing Animals and Film Form | |
Coffee break – exhibition by Hartmut Kiewert | ||
11:00–12:45 | Rountdtable: “Towards the end of animal experiments: CAS in conversation with other positions” | |
Moderation: Kathrin Herrmann; Participants: Dr. Martin Balluch, VGT, Austria; Dr. Arianna Ferrari, KIT/ITAS, Germany; Dr. Andrew Knight, University of St Kitts, Carribean Islands (video contribution); Claudio Pomo, Coordinamento Fermare Green Hill, Italy; Tereza Vandrovcová, Department of Sociology, Czech Republic | ||
Lunch break – short presentation of Chimara Arbeitskreis; exhibition by Hartmut Kiewert. | ||
14:15–15:45 | Technoscience and power | Critical perspectives |
K. Forkasiewicz: Technoscience in the Flesh: A Case Against the Reification of Experience | Magdalena Dabrowska: Paradoxes of beauty – purebred dog shows in Poland | |
Agnieszka Kowalczyk: Can Non-human Animals and Machines Produce Value? Beyond Marx’s Dichotomy of Living and Dead Labour | Simon Anhut: Animal experiments exhibition with toy animals | |
Gregor Wolbring: Ability privilege describes the advantages enjoyed by those who exhibit certain abilities | Marisa Pushee: To be announced. | |
Coffee break – exhibition by Hartmut Kiewert | ||
16:15–17:15 | Plenary Speach by Anat Pick: “Impossible Creatures: Animals in the Cinematic Machine” | |
20:00 | Conference dinner in town (facultative) |
9:00–9:15 | Registration | |
9:15–11:00 | Roundtable: “Politics of nature” | |
Participants: Dr. Elisa Aaltola, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Dr. Kay Peggs, University of Portsmouth , UK; Dr Katherine Perlo, author of Kinship and Killing: The animal in world religions, UK; Dr. John Sanbonmatsu, Worcerster Polytechnic Institute, USA. | ||
Coffee break | ||
11:15–12:15 | Critical ethology | Activism |
Robert Thomas: Darwinian Ethology – An Anthropomorphic Approach of the Animals | Aiyana Rosen: The German Animal Liberation Movement – Formation and Framing, 1980–1995 | |
Elisa Aaltola: Skepticism, empathy and ethology | Jessica Groling: Appropriating a moral panic – the British fox-hunting lobby and the urban fox | |
12:15–13:00 | Final discussion & Conclusions |
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