Christiane Bailey ~ Philosophie

C’est déjà la semaine prochaine que se tiendra la conférence étudiante des Études animales critiques. Il y aura 27 présentations d’étudiants, de professeurs et d’activistes, de la bouffe végane et une manifestation le samedi soir dans le centre-ville.

It’s already next week! The Students for Critical Animal Studies annual meeting in Montreal. There will be 27 speakers, students, activists and professors, free vegan food and a protest on Saturday night downtown Montreal.

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.

Demonstration on Saturday night : Different, but Equal: Basic Rights for All Vulnerable Selves /Différents, mais égaux: Les droits fondamentaux pour tous les individus vulnérables

Conference will be streamed for free on the internet (Thanks to Michael Sizer!)

FRIDAY MARCH 28TH / VENDREDI 28 MARS 2014

5:30 : PANEL 1 –  5:30 Livestream
Welcoming / Mot de bienvenue (Agatha Slupek, Isaac Stethem, Maude Ouellette-Dubé, Addison Woolsey)
“Radical Humility: Toward A More Holistic Critical Animal Studies Pedagogy” – Lauren Corman (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Critical Animal Studies Program, Brock University, Ontario)
“Animal Ethics: What do empirical studies teach us?” – Élise Desaulniers and Martin Gibert (Montréal)

7:30 : PANEL 2 (Facilitator: Christiane Bailey) – 7:30  Livestream
“The Right to Liberty of All Sentient Beings” – Valéry Giroux (U. de Montréal)
“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)

SATURDAY MARCH 29TH / SAMEDI 29 MARS 2014

10:00: PANEL 3 (Facilitator: Agatha Slupek) – 10:00 Livestream
Mot de bienvenue / Welcoming – Stevan Harnad (Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science, UQAM) – 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)
“Biopolitical Animals” – Christina Stephens (Purdue University, Indiana)
“Rabideau v. City of Ravine: Cases in Animal Law” – Nicholas Backman (Faculty of Law, McGill University)

1:15: PANEL 4 (Facilitator: Rocky Schwartz) – 1:15 Livestream
“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)
“Nonhuman Animal Words: Fiction From the Nonhuman Perspective” – Kenny Kruse (University of Alabama)
“Alternative Methods to Animal Testing” –  Salomé Pollet (France)

3:30: PANEL 5 (Facilitator: Daniel Franck) – 3:30  Livestream
“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)
“A Future for Critical Animal Studies”- John Sanbonmatsu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

6 pm / 18:00 : DEMO/PROTEST DOWNTOWN MONTREAL: Different, but Equal: Basic Rights for All Vulnerable Selves /Différents, mais égaux: Les droits fondamentaux pour tous les individus vulnérables

7:30 pm / 19:30 DINER at Burritoville (2055 Bishop, Montreal)

SUNDAY MARCH 30TH / DIMANCHE 30 MARS 2014

10:00 PANEL 6 (Facilitator: Addison Woolsey) – 10:00 Livestream
Welcoming/Mot de bienvenue
“A Child’s Best Friend? Child-Nonhuman Relationships in Violent Homes” – Elinor Lloyd (University of Warwick, UK)
“Sad Vegan, Bitter Vegan, Angry Vegan: Why Social Negativity is Crucial for the Animal Liberation Movement” – Daniel Frank (Vassar College)
“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)

1:15 : PANEL 7 (Facilitator: Isaac Stethem) – 1:15 Livestream
“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)

3:00 PANEL 8 (Facilitator: Maude Ouellette-Dubé) – 3:00 Livestream
“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)
Closing Comments / Mot de la fin (Rocky Schwartz and Daniel Frank)

Free and open to all

Info : http://studentsforcriticalanimalstudies.wordpress.com