2nd Call for Papers
MEET ANIMAL MEAT
May 21-23, 2009
Conference
Center for Gender Research
Uppsala University
Informed by feminist investigations of embodiment and bodiliness, we ask: How
do we understand our bodily relationship to other animals? How do we embody
animals, and how do animals embody us? How are carnal modes of
incorporation, intimacy, and inhabitation kinds of contacts forged
between “HumAnimals”? If, as Donna Haraway writes, “animals are everywhere
full partners in worlding, in becoming with,” then how do embodied encounters
with animal matter necessarily constitute categories of “human” and “animal”?
What is the meaning of meat, and the meat of meaning? How do we think and
write about human and animal power relations in a way that acknowledges the
discursive traffic, the actor-ship, agency, and the life conditions of these
differently bounded socio-historical, political populations? How do we attend
to the ways that animals and humans co-constitute each other in the flesh?
What is the consequence of taking embodiment and corporeality as the
starting point of inquiry into questions of relationality? How do we make
meat “matter” in cultural/social/political studies of animals, and/or
problematize preconceived notions of animals as “food”? How do animal parts
and body-matters figure in politico-economic stories, processes, and
institutions?
Whether through food practices, performances, infections, body modifications,
sexualities, organ transplantations, medical practices, discourses of predation
and commodification, spectatorships, and other modalities of incorporation,
the conference will critically investigate the embodied and corporeal nature of
HumAnimal encounters. We encourage presenters to engage diverse fields of
inquiry: animal studies, sociology, futures studies, history, education,
literature, philosophy, criminology, race/ethnicity studies, ethnology,
anthropology, visual culture, gender/women studies, film/video,
science/technology studies, postcolonial studies, art history and studio,
political activism, religion and theology, psychology, political science and
policy making, landscape architecture and urban planning, performance
studies, agriculture, fashion studies, biology studies, and medicine studies.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian
Critical Theory and The Pornography of Meat.
Judith Halberstam, author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and The Technology of
Monsters and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural
Lives.
PROPOSALS:
“Meet Animal Meat” will be divided into two themes: “Feeding”
and “In/Corporating.”
The suggested topics/areas of engagement are as follows:
FEEDING
• Meat Consumption
• Food Socialization
• AgriAnimals
• Social Justice
• Representing Meat
• Omnivorousness
• Predation
• Cannibalism
• Vegan/Vegetarianism
• Herbivorousness
• “Bush Meat”
• Macrobiotic
• Fishing
• Religion and Food
• Insectivorousness
• Victimless/In Vitro Meat
• Slaughter and Hunting
• Carnophallogocentrism
• Gendered Consumption and Ecofeminism
• Un/Sustainable Eating
• Human-Eating Animals
• Cultural Histories and Politics of Milk
• Food Geographies
• Becoming Meat
IN/CORPORATING
• Zoontology and Embodiment
• Animals and War
• Speciesism
• Biopower and Animal Industries
• Zooësis and Performativity
• Animal Commodification and BioCapitalism
• Xenotransplantation and Organ Harvesting
• Medical and Laboratory Animals
• Animal Material Culture (Fashion, Cosmetics, Etc.)
• Hormones and Horses
• Gene Pharming
• Zoonoses
• Abjection and Animality
• Sensing Animals (Animal Assisted Therapy/Intervention)
• Companionship and “Pets”
• Bestiality and “Animal Play”
• Animorphs, Zoomorphs and Body Modification
• Zoophilia and Zoophobia
• “Critter Theory” and Becoming Animal
• Symbiosis (Commensalism, Mutualism, Parasitism)
We seek proposals for papers, panels, and other public presentations
connecting representation, language, embodiment, animals, consumption,
power, and culture. We especially welcome interdisciplinary approaches;
readings of corporeally inflected HumAnimal fiction, poetry, and creative
nonfiction; films, videos, and slide presentations of artwork that explore carnal
human and animal encounters; and proposals from outside the academy,
including submissions from artists, writers, practitioners, and activists.
20 MINUTE PRESENTATIONS: Proposals for academic presentations should
clearly state the argument being set forward and the relevance/significance of
this argument for this conference; proposals for creative presentations should
indicate the subject addressed and the approach/medium used, and what
additional audio/visual/spatial resources will be needed to show/perform the
work; proposals for other nontraditional presentations should articulate the
unique qualities of the presentation and their connection to the conference
theme. Co-authored presentations are also welcome, but only one co-author
should submit the proposal, and only 20 minutes will be allotted.
Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, and must be received by
January 16, 2009. Submissions should include name, affiliation/title, and
correspondence address.
For further information email: [log in to unmask]
To register: http://www.genna.gender.uu.se/meetanimalmeat
Helena Pedersen, FD/PhD
Centre for Gender Research
Uppsala University
P.O.Box 634
SE-751 26 Uppsala
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