Working Across Disciplines on Animal History

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 11^th 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 12^th 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/