Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies, Cripping Critical Animal Studies – Conference Program
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Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies, Cripping Critical Animal Studies
Conference Program
June 21-23, 2016
University of Alberta
Organized by Chloë Taylor and Kelly S. Montford
For more info on rooms and for updates on the program, check out this site.
Tuesday, June 21
2:00-3:00 p.m. – Refreshments and Registration in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
3:00-5:00 p.m. – Welcome and Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies Plenary Panel
Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies Plenary Panel with DINESH WADIWEL, KIM TALLBEAR, AND MANEESHA DECKHA; MODERATED BY BILLY-RAY BELCOURT
5:30 p.m. – Dinner at Narayanni’s Restaurant (vegan South Indian buffet), 10131 81 Avenue
Wednesday, June 22
8:00-9:00 a.m. – continental breakfast in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
9:00-10:00 a.m.: Concurrent Individual Papers
A. ‘Animal Crips’ and Cripping Animal Liberation
Ryan Sweet, “Chickens with Cork Legs and Dogs with Dentures: Representations of Prostheticised Animals in Late Nineteenth-Century Periodicals”
Hannah Monroe, “Neurodiversity and Animal Liberation: Challenging Hegemonic Constructions of Normalcy”
B. Indigenous Epistemologies
Danielle Taschereau Mamers, “Decolonizing the plains: bison life beyond colonial commodification”
Brandon Kerfoot, “Seals that club back: Animal Revenge in Alootook Ipellie’s Arctic Dreams and Nightmares”
C. Critical Engagements with the Work of Temple Grandin
Chair: Lindsay Eales
Vasile Stanescu, “Lost in Translation: Temple Grandin, ‘Humane Meat’ and the Intersection of Oppression”
Vittoria Lion, “Disrupting Temple Grandin: Resisting a ‘Humane’ Face for Autistic and Animal Oppression”
D. Settler Colonialism and Animals
Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, ‘Dog whistling: Australian settler colonialism and the dingo’
Presenters: Fiona Probyn-Rapsey and Dinesh Wadiwel (Co-authors: (presenters plus Sue Donaldson, George Ioannides, Tess Lea, Kate Marsh, Astrida Neimanis, Annie Potts, Nik Taylor, Richard Twine, Stuart White), ‘Sydney’s sustainability and campus food justice workshop”
10:15-12:00 – Cripping Critical Animal Studies Plenary Panel
Plenary panel with Stephanie Jenkins, Sunaura Taylor, and A. Marie Houser
moderated by Vittoria Lion
12:00-1:00 – lunch in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
1:00-2:30 p.m.: Concurrent Individual Papers
A. Gender, Disability, and Animality (Undergraduate Student Panel)
Samuella Jo Johnson, “Institutionalized Space: Dehumanization and the Masking of Violence”
James Harley, “The Trouble with Animal Rights Activism: Emotion Work is Women’s Work”
Dylan Hallingstad O’Brien, “‘We Are Humans!’: Animality as Disability in Yusuke Kishi’s Shinsekai Yori”
B. Settler Colonial Imaginings of Nature and Animals
Ben O’Heran, “Henry David Thoreau, the Unsettled Settler: Exploring Environmentalism as a Means of Usurping Indigenous Place-Thought”
Carina Magazzeni, “The Trouble with Taxidermy: Brad Isaacs and Animalium”
Rebekah Sinclair,”Guest, Pests, or Terrorists?: The Settler-Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive Species”
C. Decolonial Perspectives on Domestication and Diet
Shaila Wadhwani, “Coloniality: Nature and the Bodies of Domestication”
Jason Price, “Decolonizing Desire and Relationships with Animals and Space in The Devil’s Chimney”
Samantha King, “Consuming Animals in Theory and Practice: Conversations with Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies Scholars on the Ethics and Politics of Food”
3:00-4:00 – Seeing Animals: Crip Reflections on the Work of Sunaura Taylor
Plenary Lecture by Alison Kafer
moderated by Emilia Nielsen
4:15-5:30 p.m. Art Exhibition Opening: Works of Sunaura Taylor
FemLab (Feminist Exhibition Space), Assiniboia Hall
curated by Michelle Meagher
Wine and Cashew Cheese Reception
Thursday, June 23
8:00-9:00 a.m. – continental breakfast in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
9:00-10:30 a.m.: Concurrent Individual Papers
A. Global Perspectives on Interlocking Oppressions
Lisa Warden, “The street dog and the slum dweller: twin victims of urban renewal in modern India”
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, “But American Indians Blessed the Animals Before Killing Them: Native Fetishes and Edible Others in Brazil”
Maria Elena Garcia, “Culinary Spectacles: Bodies and Violence in Peru’s Gastronomic Boom”
B. Critical Animal/ Disability Studies
Nancy Halifax and Chelsea Jones, “‘What kind of animal are you?’”
Chelsea Jones and Liz Shek-Noble, “What to Make of Lashawn Chan: An Overview of Critical Disability, Animal, and Post-colonial Studies’ Intersections in Southeast Asia and North America”
C. Philosophical Perspectives on Interlocking Oppressions
Angela Martin, “Affirmative Action for Animals?”
Syl Kocieda, “The spectre of not-quite-humans in the narrative of ‘animality’: Should we be talking about actual animals in animal advocacy?”
Frédéric Côté-Boudreau, “Enabling Autonomy for Animals and People with Cognitive Disabilities”
10:30-11:00 a.m. – refreshment break in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Indigenous Food Politics
Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Reserve Dying and the Taste of Non-Sovereignty”
Margaret Robinson, “All My (Blood) Relations: Indigenous Relationality in Vegan Future”
moderated by Susanne Luhmann
12:00-1:00 p.m. – lunch in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
1:00 – 2:15 – BOOK PANELS
A. Book panel on Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel’s The War Against Animals (Brill Press, 2015)
Chair: Chloë Taylor
Panelists: Vasile Stanescu and Kelin Emmett
Respondent: Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
B. Book panel on Claire Jean Kim’s Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Panelists: Kelly Struthers Montford and Christiane Bailey
Respondent: Claire Jean Kim
C. Book panel on Sunaura Taylor’s Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (New Press, 2016)
Chair: Danielle Peers
Panelists: Alexis Shotwell and Joshua St. Pierre
Respondent: Sunaura Taylor
2:30-3:30 – Taxonomies of Power
Plenary lecture by Claire Jean Kim
moderated by Fiona probyn-rapsey
3:30-4:00 p.m. – refreshment break in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
5:00-8:00 p.m. visit to F.A.R.R.M. (farm sanctuary) and vegan bbq
For more info on rooms and for updates on the program, check out this site.