Hello fellow list members:
The preliminary program for the very interesting, Ontario Brock University
conference "Representing Animals", November 13-14, 2003, has just become
available and is given below. Some on our list may share my excitement!
Best and for the Earth, David Orton
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Thursday Nov. 13th Pond Inlet Sociology Meeting Room
8:00-8:30 am Registration
8:30-8:45 Welcome
8:45-9:30 Keynote speaker
9:35-11:05 Advocacy 1
11:10-12:10 Darwin, Language, Immortality
12:10-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Gophers, Salmon, Unicorns Classical Views
2:20-3:20 Wolves Biblical & Renaissance Views
3:25-4:25 Whales Modern Literary Representation
4:30-6:00 Hunting, Nature, Ecology Animals in Films & Photographs
6:00-7:15 Dinner
7:15-8:45 Film presentation & discussion
Friday Nov. 14th Pond Inlet Senate Chamber
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-10:00 Changing Consciousness
10:10-11:40 Advocacy 2
11:40-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Legal Representations Factory Farming
2:05-3:35 Advertising, Art & Aliens Psychology, Vivisection
3:40-3:55 Break
3:55-4:55 Animals in Cyberspace & Statuary Social Work & Therapy
5:00-6:00 Roundtable discussion
PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
Thursday, Nov. 13; Pond Inlet
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-8:45 Welcome
8:45-9:30 Keynote Speech: David Nibert, Wittenberg U. – Representing
Animals in a Speciesist World
9:35-11:05 Advocacy 1
Steven Best, U. of Texas – Direct Action
Andrew Butler, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Countering
Speciesism
Stacey Byrne, U. College of Cape Breton - Diet & Socialization
Dmitri della Faille, U. du Quebec a Montreal - Advocating Animals in the
global deliberative space
11:10-12:10 Darwin, Immortality, Language,
Rod Preece, Wilfrid Laurier U. - Charles Darwin & the Representation of
Animals: the myth of a Darwinian Revolution
Johanna Tito, Brock U. – Animal Immortality
Douglas Mansfield, U. of Natal, S. Africa - Animals, Einstein, Shakespeare
and the Hunter-Gatherer: what is intelligence?
12:10-1:15 LUNCH – VEGAN MEALS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR THOSE WHO REGISTER
AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:15-6:00
1:15-2:15 POND INLET
Gophers, Salmon, Unicorns
Alison Calder - Land, Power, Gophers: Representation of the Gopher in
Prairie Popular Culture
Tatjana Kochetkova, U. of Utrecht, Netherlands - The Symbol of the Unicorn
in the Western Psyche
Jack Stillwell - Simplistic Oil-burning Machines or Mythic Spirits
Returning Home? 6 Decades of Conflict over the Nature of Pacific Salmon
1:15-2:15 SOCIOLOGY MEETING ROOM
Classical Views
Martin Andic, Brock U. – Sacrifice
Jo-Ann Shelton, U. of California, Santa Barbara - Burglary & the Beast: the
Death of Thrasyleon in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 4.20 & 21
Anton Jansen, Brock U. - Going to the Dogs: Animals as Friends & Foes in
Greek Mythology
2:20-3:20 POND INLET
Wolves
Melissa Bailey, Tufts U. - Cultural Perceptions of Wolves Throughout
History: a Closer Look at Indigenous, European & Contemporary American Views
William Lynn, Center for Humans & Nature - Wolfish Thoughts on Posthuman
Ethics and Social Theory
Melissa Tkachyk, Earthroots - Eathroots Campaign on Wolves
2:20-3:20 SOCIOLOGY MEETING ROOM
Biblical & Renaissance Views
Darren Howard - Rights of Man & Other Beasts in Thomas Beswick's 'a general
history of quadrupeds'
Tom Kealy, Colby-Sawyer College - Animals & Renaissance Naturalists
Cameron Wybrow, McMaster U. - The Conception of Animal Life in the Hebrew
Bible
3:25-4:25 POND INLET
Whales
Frank Nutch, Trent U. - A Part for the Whole: Presenting & Representing
Cetacea in Scientific Research & Commercial Whale Watching
Petra Rethman, McMaster U. - Whale Futures & Justice
Traci Warketin, York U. - Captive Imaginations: Ethical and Epistemological
Dimensions of (Re)presenting Whales
3:25-4:25 SOCIOLOGY MEETING ROOM
Modern Literary Representations
Jane Desmond, U. of Iowa - An Inveterate Lover of Humankind & Particularly
of the Ladies: Pet Obituaries as Contested Sites of Social Attitudes
towards Animals
Jutta Ittner, Case Western Reserve U. - Paper Tigers?: tiger constructs in
Y. Martel's Life of Pi, R.K. Narayan's A Tiger for Malgudi & R. Kipling's A
Jungle Book
Melissa Sky, McMaster U. - Goddess & Cyborg Incorporated: Bearing Posthuman
Fruit in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
4:30-6:00 POND INLET
Hunting & Nature
Linda Kalof, Amy Fitzgerald & Lori Baralt, Michigan State U. - Hunting as a
Sexually-Charged Activity: Evidence from ‘Traditional Bowhunter’ magazine
Barbara Seeber, Brock U. - Detested sport: Hunting in Jane Austen's Persuasion
Billy MacDonald, Red Tail Nature Awareness - Challenges & Contradictions in
Wildlife Bonding with Youth in Nova Scotia; the Redtail experience
David Orton - Deep Ecology & Animals
4:30-6:00 SOCIOLOGY MEETING ROOM
Animals on Film & In Photographs
Ann Duffy, Brock U. – Animal Rights & ‘Classic’ Children’s Films: the Moral
Conundrum
Murray Pomerance, Brock U. - A Brief History of Animals on Film
Sharon Sliwinski, York U.– Animal Photography
Darrell Varga, Brock U. - Film, Food & the Politics of Consumption
6:00-7:15 DINNER-VEGAN MEALS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR THOSE WHO REGISTER
Book Launch: Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
7:15-8:45 Michael Tobias – Film Presentation & Discussion
Friday November 14; Pond Inlet
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-10:00 Changing Consciousness
Julie Andrejewski, St. Cloud State U. – Curriculum Transformation for
Animal Rights Education at the Secondary & College Levels
John C. Alessio, St. Cloud State U. – Being Sentient & Sentient Being:
In-Group & Out-Group Boundaries in the Animal Rights Movement
Lisa Uddin, U. of Rochester - Canine Citizenship & the Intimate Public Sphere
Leesa Fawcett, York U. - Wild cultures:an (Eco)Feminist Perspective on
'Other' Animals Consciousness
10:10-11:40 Advocacy 2
David Lavigne,International Fund for Animal Welfare - untitled
Anthony Nocella II, CALA - Pedagogy of the ALF
Kim Robinson Zoocheck - Activism
Kim Stallwood, Animal Rights Network - Animal Rights as a Social Movement
11:40-1:00 LUNCH – VEGAN MEALS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR THOSE WHO REGISTER
AFTERNOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:00-4:55
1:00-2:00 POND INLET
Legal Representations
Lesli Bisgould, Friends of Animals - Power & Irony: One Tortured Cat and
Many Twisted Angles to Our Moral Schizophrenia About Animals
Ronald Sklar, McGill U. - The 'Standing' Requirement in Animal Advocacy
Actions
Patrick Tohill, World Society for the Protection of Animals - The Roadside
Zoo in Canada & What You Can Do About It
1:00-2:00 SENATE CHAMBERS
Factory Farms
Stephanie Brown, Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals - CCFA Campaign on
Factory Farming
Lauren Corman, York U. - Animal Agribusiness
Karen Krug, Brock U. - Charlotte's Web or Pandora's Box? the Status of
Animals in a Sustainability Paradigm
2:05-3:35 POND INLET
Advertising, Art, Aliens
Steve Baker, U. of Central Lancashire - Ethics, Creativity & Animal Death
in Contemporary Art
Lee Hall, Rutgers U. - Animal Studies as Ethological Showbusiness
Tyson Lewis & Richard Kahn, U. of California Los Angeles - The Reptoid
Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in Contemporary
Alien Conspiracy Theory
Mark Meisner, State U. of New York - Dreams of Domestication:
Representations of Animals in Contemporary Advertising
2:05-3:35 SENATE CHAMBERS
Psychology
Lauri L. Hyers, U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Prejudice Against
Non-Human Animals: Using Social Psychological Theory of Human-to-Human
Prejudice to Inform Our Understanding of the Treatment of Animals
Melanie Joy, United for Animals - Humanistic Psychology & Animal Rights
David Sztybel - Representing Nonhuman Animals as Equivalent to Cognitively
Disadvantaged Humans: The Case of Vivisection
3:40-3:55 BREAK
3:55-4:55 POND INLET
Animals in Cyberspace & in Statuary
Judith Doyle, York U. - Spectral Bodies: Animal Practice Stories and the
Reconfiguration of Race Online
Tracey Smith-Harris, York U. - Representations of Homeless Companion
Animals on a Shelter Website
Maria Eugenia Webb & Pedro Sa-Nogueira-Saraiva, New U. of Lisbon, Portugal
– Animal Symbolism in Lisbon Monuments
3:55-4:55 SENATE CHAMBERS
Therapy & Social Work
S. Chinny Krishna, Blue Cross, India – Pet Therapy
Atsuko Matsuoka, York U. – Animals & Social Work
Jan Yorke - The Equine Human Bond & Recovery from trauma
5:00-6:00 Roundtable
Ralph Acampora, Hofstra U. - Academic Animals
David Nibert
Rod Preece
Lesli Bisgould
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