2nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE / 2ème CONFÉRENCE ANNUELLE
STUDENTS FOR CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES (SCAS)
ÉTUDIANT(E)S POUR LES ÉTUDES ANIMALES CRITIQUES
March 28-30 Mars 2014
Leacock Building, McGill University
855 Sherbrooke West, Montréal (Québec, Canada)
Schedule and abstracts / Horaire et résumés des présentations
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Conference will be streamed for free on the internet (Thanks to Michael Sizer!)
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FRIDAY MARCH 28TH / VENDREDI 28 MARS 2014
Leacock Building, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke West, Montréal – ROOM LEA 26
Welcoming / Mot de bienvenue (Agatha Slupek, Isaac Stethem, Maude Ouellette-Dubé, Addison Woolsey, Christiane Bailey)
PANEL 1-2 (Facilitator: Maude, Christiane and Agatha)
INVITED KEYNOTE TALK – CONFFÉRENCE INVITÉE
“Radical Humility: Toward A More Holistic Critical Animal Studies Pedagogy” – Lauren Corman (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Critical Animal Studies Program, Brock University, Ontario)
“The Right to Liberty of All Sentient Beings” – Valéry Giroux (U. de Montréal)
INVITED KEYNOTE TALK – CONFFÉRENCE INVITÉE
“Sexual Ethics and Other Animals:An Ecofeminist Critique of Zoosex” – Chloë Taylor (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Alberta)
(VIDEO STARTS AT 3:37)
SATURDAY MARCH 29TH / SAMEDI 29 MARS 2014
Leacock Building, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke West, Montréal – ROOM LEA 219
9:30 – 10:00 : Sign-In and Socializing / Accueil
PANEL 3 (Facilitator: Agatha Slupek) – 10:00
Mot de bienvenue / Welcoming: Intro to Critical Animal Studies – Christiane Bailey (Université de Montréal)
“Arakawa’s Alternative Compassion: Gin no Saji, ‘Humane’ Farming, and the Indoctrination of Youth in the Absence of Critique” – Dylan Hallingstad O’Brien (Hamline University, Minnesota)
“Rabideau v. City of Ravine: Cases in Animal Law” – Nicholas Backman (Faculty of Law, McGill University)
(VIDEO STARTS AT 6:58)
12:00 – 1:00 : VEGAN LUNCH//PAUSE BOUFFE VÉGÉTALIENNE
1:15 – 3:15 : PANEL 4 (Facilitator: Rocky Schwartz)
“The Surveillance of Nonhuman Farmed Animals: A Biopolitical Analysis of Current Shifts in ‘Food Safety’ Laws in Canada”
Kelly Struthers Montford (U of Alberta)
“The Human Experiment”
Kacie Auffret (UBC Okanagan)
“Alternative Methods to Animal Testing”
Salomé Pollet (France)
(VIDEO STARTS AT 16:13)
PANEL 5 (Facilitator: Agatha Anna)
“Advocacy and Activism: Youth, Their Pets, and Situations of Domestic Violence”
Yaffa Elling (Social worker, danslarue.org)
“Fellow Speakers? A Critical Examination of Josephine Donovan’s Dialogization of Human-Nonhuman Relations”
Justin Morris (McMaster University, Ontario)
INVITED KEYNOTE TALK – CONFFÉRENCE INVITÉE
“A Future for Critical Animal Studies”
John Sanbonmatsu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
(VIDEO STARTS AT 2:35)
6 pm / 18:00 :
PROTEST/MANIFESTATION PROTEST for other animals/MANIFESTATION pour les autres annimaux
7:30 pm / 19:30 DINER at Burritoville (2055 Bishop, Montreal)
SUNDAY MARCH 30TH / DIMANCHE 30 MARS 2014
Leacock Building, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke West, Montréal – ROOM LEA 219
9:30 – 10:00 : Sign-In and Socializing / Accueil
Welcoming/Mot de bienvenue : Stevan Harnad (Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science, UQAM)
PANEL 6 (Facilitator: Rocky Swartz)
“A Child’s Best Friend? Child-Nonhuman Relationships in Violent Homes”
Elinor Lloyd (University of Warwick, UK)
“Animal Liberation, Culture, and Identity: A Globalizing Contested Site”
Marion Achoulias (Concordia University, Montréal)
“Israel: Towards a Vegan Revolution?”
Anne-Sophie Cardinal (Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel)
(VIDEO STARTS AT 18:59)
12:00 – 1:00 : VEGAN LUNCH//PAUSE BOUFFE VÉGÉTALIENNE
1:15 – 2:45 : PANEL 7 (Facilitator: Isaac Stethem)
“Restoration of Bodily Autonomy for the Female-Bodied of Domesticated Species within a Sanctuary Framework”
Rocky Schwartz (Vassar College)
“Victims, All of Us: Strategies for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy”
Katherine Wayne (Queen’s University, Ontario)
“Political Liberation of Animot”
Edyta Niemyjska (Concordia University)
(VIDEO STARTS AT 18:59)
3:00 – 4:30 PANEL 8 (Facilitator: Maude Ouellette-Dubé)
“Animal Ethics: What do empirical studies teach us?”
Élise Desaulniers and Martin Gibert (Montréal)
“Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice for Domesticated Animals”/“L’Égalitarisme et la justice distributive envers les animaux non-humains”
Frédéric Coté-Boudreau (Queen’s University, Ontario)
“Understanding oppression and transforming liberation”
mike nicholson (Guelph, Ontario)
(VIDEO STARTS AT 18:59)
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Pictures of the protest and the last day of talks.
Pictures of the conference
(Sincere apologies to the speakers of the first two days, my computer was stolen at the conference with the memory card in it. If I ever find it, I will add all the pics).
Pictures of the protest
* Free and open to all. All food will be vegan. Please let us know of any allergies or further dietary restrictions.
*Gratuit et ouvert à tous. La nourriture sera végétalienne. Laissez-nous savoir si vous avez des allergies ou autres restrictions alimentaires.