Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting – just a quick reminder before the end of the year! Please consider submitting a paper proposal for the RAI2018 - Art, Materiality and Representation panel, “Representing and Depicting Animals” (P003).
Submissions from all disciplines are welcome to discuss the mechanisms of classifying, knowledge, and representation of the nonhuman animal, and these mechanisms' impact upon relationships.
The conference is in London (British Museum, Clore Centre and Senate House), 1st – 3rd June 2018 and the call for papers will close 8th January 2018. Please see below for details of the panel.
All the best,
Dr. Chris Ward (University of Nottingham)
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RAI2018 London, P003 – “Representing and Depicting Animals”:
https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6006
Short Abstract
What does the depiction of the animal tell us about classification, interspecies relations and nature? This panel will seek to investigate how the mechanisms of knowledge in relation to the animal form can influence and sometimes challenge the relations between human and animal in unforeseen ways.
Long Abstract
What does the image of the animal tell us of that animal? When does this physical and perhaps biological representation of the animal meet the actual physicality? Where and how does this physicality become subjected to efforts to meet the representation? And historically, what do the changing depictions of animals in artforms tell us of the cultural perceptions of animals?
Whether contemporary taxonomy or the Neolithic artwork which adorns cave walls, the depiction of the animal’s form can be found throughout human culture and history. Despite technological improvements, the rendered image of the animal seems to be of importance to understanding the animal, and humanity’s interactions with them. Do such mechanisms of the representation and classification of animals themselves have an unexpected effect, altering, displacing and even challenging inter-species relations?
For modern conservation, those studying the animal might enjoy the advantage of genetic analysis to aid and define species, but the taxonomic formation and differentiation remains important to understanding geographic and cultural movements. Do these classificatory efforts remain embedded in a pre-human conception or in an ahistorical perception of the animal? Does this representation itself represent an idealised notion of the “authentic animal”, and perhaps an “authentic nature” as well?
This panel welcomes papers from all academic disciplines in relation to the representation of animals and will promote discussion of the effect of internalised perceptions on biosocial relationships. We hope to encourage participation in reflecting on what anthropology can offer to wider academic research and conservatory efforts towards the animal.
To propose a paper please follow the link: https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6006
Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300 characters and an abstract of 250 words.
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