Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies
1st Biennial Meeting DRAFT program
Animals at Large:
Critical Animal Studies Perspectives on Wild, Feral, and ‘Free-Living’ Animals
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, the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Alberta, and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts and Department of Criminology.
August 5
4:00 – 5:15 – Welcome and Opening Keynote: Stephanie Rutherford, “Canids and Canada: Wolves, Coyotes and Regimes of Violence and Belonging”
5:15 – 6:30 – Opening Reception
August 6
9:00 – 10:30 – Sanctuary and Salvation
Darren Chang, “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 – Break
10:45 – 12:15 – 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’”
Susmita Roy, “Who Produces the ‘Tiger Widow’? Ecology, Patriarchy, and Systemic Marginalization”
12:15 – 1:15 – Lunch
1:15 – 3:15 – Wild Politics
Pablo Castello, “The Territorial Rights of Wild Animals: Justification”
Esther Palm, “Travail Animal et critique du sauvage en théorie politique”
Christiane Bailey, “Renouncing violence and doing politics with wild and liminal animals in Donaldson and Kymlicka’s Animals and the Right to Politics”
Agata Kowaleska, “Feralizing: Reimagining Future Liberations in Europe”
3:15 – 3:30 – Break
3:30 – 5:00 – 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”
Zoei Sutton & Kate Hall, “Feral Catastrophe: Analyzing the Narrative Construction of Australian Cats”
Lauren Corman, “Criminal/Animal: Trump’s Criminalization of Immigrants and Vilification of Nonhuman Animals”
August 7
9:00 – 10:15 – Keynote: Catia Faria, “Compassion by Design: Aligning AI with the Welfare of Wild Animals”
10:15 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 12:00 – Media Analyses
Mathieu Chaput & Jacinthe Dupuis, “The Communicative Constitution of Liminal Animals in the ‘Deer Saga’”
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”
12:00 – 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 – Break
2:45 – 4:15 – Intersection of Behavioural Ecology and Critical Animal Studies: The Ethical Costs and Benefits of Primate Research in Wild, Free-Ranging, and Rehabilitative Contexts
Facilitator: Mikaela Gerwing; Presenters: Nève Djevalikian-Couture, Italo Ferreira Perreira, Maya Moghrabi, Viviane Aurora Oliviera, & Brogan M. Stewart
4:15 – 4:30 – Break
4:30 – 6:00 – Feral Intimacies: Care and Control in Interspecies Relations
Misha Solomon, “Goon at Love Park”
Ishaan Selby, “‘Big, Furry, Asymmetrical Balls’: Wildness, Feral Sex, and Ownership in Marian Engel’s Bear”
Jesse Arsenault, “The Wildness of Interspecies Desire in South African Literature and Law”
6:30 – 8:00 – Conference dinner
