Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies 1st Biennial Meeting DRAFT program
Animals at Large: CAS Perspectives on Wild, Feral, and Free-Living Animals
Co-sponsored by The Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, the Observatoire québécois en droit animalier, and Interuniversity Research Center in Ethics (CRÉ)
August 6
8:30 - 9:00 Arrival/Continental breakfast, coffee/tea/juice available
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 - Catered 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
Karen Morin, “An ‘Animal Turn’ for Rats?”
Mathieu Chaput & Jacinthe Dupuis, “The Communicative Constitution of Liminal Animals in the ‘Deer Saga’”
Zoie 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 Olivieri (presenter), & Brogan M. Stewart (presenter)
August 7
8:30 - 9:00 - Arrival/Continental breakfast, coffee/tea/juice available
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 - Catered Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 - 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”
2:45 - 3:00 - Coffee/tea break
3:00 - 4:30 – The Wild and the Monstrous
Emelia Quinn, "When Animals Attack: The Comedy and Camp of Wild Animal Revenge"
Emily Major, “The Boogeymen of Our Forests: Anti-Possum Rhetoric and the Construction of Fear in Dominant Conservation Messaging in New Zealand”
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
6:00 – 7:00 – Closing Reception