Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies
1st Biennial Meeting DRAFT program
Wildlife in the Polycrisis:
Critical Animal Studies Perspectives on Animals ‘at Large’
Co-sponsored by The Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), and the Observatoire québécois en droit animalier, with the generous support of the Killam Research Fund and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts and Department of Criminology.
August 6
8:30 - 9:00 Arrival/Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 – Welcome and Opening Keynote: Catia Faria
10:15 - 10:30 - Coffee/tea Break
10:30 - 12:00 - Wild Politics
Pablo Castello, “The Territorial Rights of Wild Animals: Justification”
Agata Kowaleska, “Feralizing: Reimagining Future Liberations in Europe”
Christiane Bailey, “Renouncing violence and doing politics with wild and liminal animals in Donaldson and Kymlicka’s Animals and the right to politics”
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 - Wild Horses
Sabine Sassner, “Movement vs. Behaviour: Visibility and Agency of Equines”
Lucy Horswill, “From ‘Semi-Wild’ to Surplus: Language and Disposal at British Drift Sales”
Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor, “Wild Mustang Prison Programs in the American Southwest”
2:30 - 2:45 - Coffee/tea Break
2:45 - 4:15 - Vermin, Pests, and Invasive Species
Emily Major, “The Boogeymen of Our Forests: Anti-Possum Rhetoric and the Construction of Fear in Dominant Conservation Messaging in New Zealand”
Mathieu Chaput & Jacinthe Dupuis, “The Communicative Constitution of Liminal Animals in the ‘Deer Saga’”
Zoei Sutton and Kate Hall, “Feral Catastrophe: Analyzing the Narrative Construction of Australian Cats”
4:15 - 4:30 - Coffee/tea Break
4:30 - 6:00 - Intersection of Behavioural Ecology and Critical Animal Studies: The Ethical Costs and Benefits of Primate Research in Wild, Free-Ranging, and Rehabilitative Contexts
Mikaela Gerwing (facilitator), Nève Djevalikian-Couture (presenter), Italo Ferreira Perreira (presenter), Maya Moghrabi (presenter), Viviane Aurora Oliviera (presenter), & Brogan M. Stewart (presenter)
August 7
8:30 - 9:00 - Arrival/Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 – Sanctuary and Salvation
Darren Chang (remote from Australia), “Contesting Wildness: The Farmed Animal Sanctuary as Liminal Contact Zone”
Sal Renshaw, “Saving By Any Other Name: Sanctuaries, Arks, and the Governance of Animal Lives in the Anthropocene”
Stephanie Eccles, “Farmed Animals in Extreme Weather Events: Disaster Response Pathways and Foreclosures of Wildness”
10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee/tea break
10:45 - 12:15 - Animal Capital
Esther Palm, “Travail Animal et critique du sauvage en théorie politique”
Briana Magnuson & Tony Weis, “HPAI in the Wild: A Critical Analysis of Media Coverage of the Panzootic Crisis”
Branislava Vičar, “The Conservation Discourse of Native Animal Species as Nationalist Narrative: The Case of the Marble Trout”
12:15 - 1:15 - Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 - Feral Intimacies: Care and Control in Interspecies Relations
Misha Solomon, “Goon at Love Park”
Ishaan Selby, “Wildness, Feral Sex, and Ownership in Marian Engel’s Bear”
Jesse Arsenault, “The Wildness of Interspecies Desire in South African Literature and Law”
2:45 - 3:00 - Coffee/tea break
3:00 - 4:30 – Wild Animal Attacks
Emelia Quinn, "When Animals Attack: The Comedy and Camp of Wild Animal Revenge"
Ian Hanesworth, “Wolf Mothers & Man Things: Agency, Emotionality, and Personhood in Ursula LeGuin’s ‘The Wife’s Story’”
4:45 - 6:00 – Closing Keynote: Stephanie Rutherford, “Canids and Canada: Wolves, Coyotes and Regimes of Violence and Belonging”
6:00 – 7:00 – Closing Reception
