3rd EU conference for critical animal studies

 

3rd European Conference for Critical Animal Studies:
Technoscientific developments and Critical Animal Studies

Karlsruhe, Germany

Conference Program

 

Thursday 28th of November

 

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)

Friday 29th of November

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)

Saturday 30th of November

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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