The following may be of interest to list members:
Animal Movements • Moving Animals
A symposium on direction, velocity and
agency in humanimal encounters
Uppsala University, Sweden, 27th and 28th May 2010
Call for Papers
In recent years Animal Studies has underlined the significance of animals in
human lives. The encounters are infinite and variable ranging from the
mundane to the remarkable, the obvious to the unobserved, the euphoric to
the dystopian. However, encounters are not static, and recent work has
highlighted how important movement is to humanimal re¬lations, be it the
conflicts arising as conservation species cross the imperceptible bounda¬ries
or very real fences of conservation areas or the ‘socio-economic benefits’ of
an egg from a hen that can range free. Furthermore each encounter has its
own pace; in agri¬culture the rate at which animals are raised creates
competing discourses of ‘good meat’ and speed infuses the ethical discussions
in biotechnology. Equally animals are caught up in the globalised networks of
production and consumption which materially and discur¬sively circulate
animals and their body parts as currency, capital or commodities.
Conse¬quentially, movement affects human imaginings of animals and shapes
political ideologies. Thus direction, velocity and how various power relations
converge to enable or prevent movement are fundamental to understandings
of humanimal encounters. Therefore in this symposium we want to further such
debates by bringing together current work on animal mobility and movement.
In addition to paper sessions key note addresses will be given by Bryndis
Snaebjornsdottir (Artist and researcher), Henry Buller (University of Exeter),
and Nigel Rothfels (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee).
If you are interested in presenting a paper at this symposium please submit an
abstract of 250 words at www.genna.gender.uu.se/AMMA no later than 28th
February 2010.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
• Depicting animal movement in art, literature and visual culture
• Locomotion in animal ontologies: discourses of movement in caretaking
• Relocating animals: zoos, farms, the wild and the spaces in-between
• (Re)presenting movement: animals as historical or biographical subjects
• Humanimal encounters through play, leisure and tourism
• Movement within the laboratory
• Pets: mobility and captivity
• Animal migrations
• Feral paths: The urban animal
• Animal liberation
• Moving agricultural animals
• Animals in political movements
• Trading animals
Further details are available at www.genna.gender.uu.se/AMMA or by emailing
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