Dear All,
We're holding a British Animal Studies Network event on 'Cold Blood(ed)' in Cardiff in October this year. This will be an interdisciplinary event, but we would especially encourage geographers to submit abstracts. The call for papers is below and on the conference website (http://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/FutureMeetings/ColdBlooded.aspx), where updates and registration details will also be announced.
Best wishes,
Chris
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Call for Papers
Cold Blood(ed)
October 9 and 10 2015
Hosted by the Animal Geographies Research Cluster, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University
As with all previous BASN meetings, this event takes as its focus a key issue in animal studies that it is hoped will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines and to those working outside of academia. The event focuses on the topic of 'cold blood(ed),' suggestive both of particular lifeforms and lifeworlds, as well as a metaphor for the absence of 'passion' or emotion in human-animal relations. Thus, this event invites thinking on non-mammalian animals such as reptiles, amphibians, fish and molluscs but also a theorizing of action from and toward animals.
We would particularly welcome papers that address themes and questions including:
. What difference does blood make? How might a focus on blood encourage more-than-bodily conceptualisations of animals? How might a focus on blood encourage a focus on the internal workings of animals?
. How does a distinction between warm and cold blood affect human understandings of animal sentience? How does this affect the ethical judgements that are taken around animals?
. In what ways is/might blood and its circulation (be) used to hide or reveal nonhuman difference?
. Why have animal studies scholars generally paid less attention to cold blooded animals than warm blooded animals? Do cold blooded animals raise intrinsically different research questions?
. How does animal killing take place 'in cold blood'? How does coldness manifest itself in the process of killing? How does coldness relate to theoretical concerns around the notion of abjection?
. What practices are viewed as killing in cold blood? How is killing in cold blood resisted? What range of reactions to killing animals in cold blood might be identified?
We welcome papers that deal with such issues in contemporary and historical settings, and would especially like to see papers that address these issues from contexts outside the UK, including the Global South. Papers are welcomed from across the scope of animal studies, including disciplines such as (but not limited to) geography, anthropology, sociology, literature studies, art history, science and technology studies, ethology, psychology, behavioural sciences and ecology.
As well as a number of invited speakers (TBC) we are also issuing this call for papers. If you are interested in giving a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words with a brief biography (also of no more than 200 words). These should be included within your email - i.e. NOT as attachments. Please send them to Mara Miele at [log in to unmask] The deadline for abstracts is 30 June 2015. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, and we hope to include work by individuals at different career stages. Sadly we have no money to support travel, accommodation or attendance costs.
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Dr Christopher Bear
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School of Planning and Geography
Cardiff University
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