11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies
Canisius College
Buffalo, New York, USA
March 2 – 4, 2012
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4:00-4:25 |
Registration Sarat Colling _________________________________ |
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4:30-5:55 |
Welcoming Tanya Loughhead, Canisius College, Morgan Jamie Dunbar, Canisius College, and Susan Thomas, President, Institute for Critical Animal Studies _________________________________ |
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5:00-6:30 |
Research, Factories, and Industrialization 1) It takes two to know one – ‘human’ and ‘animal’ as relational categories of social and cultural research 2) Animals, Ecological Biopower, and the “Greening” of the Factory Farm 3) From The Poet-Physician to The Healer-Killer’ in a talk at the conference |
Institutes, Activism, and Beyond 1) Moving Beyond the Academy and Presenting Data to Activists
3) Posthumeneutics and the Animal Avant Garde: Digital Experiments in Inter-Species Translation |
6:35-8:00 |
_________________________________ Book Talk “Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story” “Accumulation of Freedom” and “The Global Industrial Complex” “About Canada: Animal Rights” “Conspiracy to Riot in the Furtherance of Terrorism: Collective Autobiography of the RNC 8” “Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation” _________________________________ |
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| Saturday | Room 1 | Room 2 |
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9:00 – 9:25 |
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Registration
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| 9:30 – 11:00 | Gender Chair: Susan Thomas 1) Whatever happened to Feminists for Animal Rights? 2) Occupying Dualisms: The Importance of Ecofeminist Dialog in the Occupy Movement 3) “We are the 99%” _______________ |
Liberation for All Chair: Nate Buckley 1) COINTEL PR0- Counterintelligence program of FBI on the progressive forces inside the USA 2) “Justice Delayed” A firsthand account of the “injustice system” really works 3) A Brief Look at Prisoners and Bioethics in the US 4) Crime and Punishment? Whose crime, whose punishment? _______________ |
11:05 – 12:35 |
Stigmitization and Abnormalcy 1) Name. Shame, and Blame: Neoliberal Proclamations as Anarchist Veganism in Drag 2) Interdependence, Capability and Competence as a Framework for Eco-Ability 3) Human Disabilities, Nonhuman Animals, and Nature: Toxic Constructs and Transformative Technologies |
The Animal Question in Film and Literature 1) Postanimals in Posthuman Spaces: Agriculture (or a Human Farm and People as Food) in The Matrix and “Rogue Farm” 2) Cinema, Subjectivity and Becoming-Vegan 3) ‘Hert-huntyng’ and the Uncanny Animal in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Book of the Duchess” 4) Monster Horses From Outer Space: Atavistic Equine Linguistics |
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12:40 – 2:10 |
_________________________________ Awards and Lunch 2012 Annual International Critical Animal Studies Awards of the Year
2. Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/Thesis of the Year 3. Critical Animal Studies Graduate Paper/Project/Dissertation of the Year 4. Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year 5. Critical Animal Studies Book of the Year 6. Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year 7. Critical Animal Studies Tyke Scholar of the Year 8. Critical Animal Studies Britches Scholar of the Year 9. Critical Animal Studies Hilda Scholar of the Year _________________________________ |
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2:15 – 3:45 |
Social Movements and Activism 1) Communication, Conflict & Critics within the Animal Rights Movement 2) Postdemocracy and Animal Activism: A Theoretical Framework 3) Deconstructing Neoliberal and Corporate Universities: |
Visual Media Analysis (Dogs) 1) Picturing the “Riot Dog”: Reproduction, replaceability and ontological irony in photographs of Greek protests 2) Beauty Goes to the Dogs: The Commodification of Canines as Extensions of Female Desirability 3) Supporting Shelter Animals by Portraying Their Personalities: The Practice of Animal Photography for Adoption in Taiwan |
3:50 – 5:20 |
Occupy Movement and Capitalism 1) The Military-Animal Industrial Complex and Occupy: Ending military exploitation of animals for war and profit 2) Factory farming, environment, and capitalism 3) Are We the 99% or the 1%? How the coming social upheaval can create a sentient rights movement _______________ |
The Animal Question 1) (Hu)Man and Animal 2) “Friendship and Otherness in Blanchot and Derrida, relatability to non-human animals and to politics
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| Sunday | Room 1
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Room 2
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9:00 – 10:30 |
AETA 1) 2) Foucaultian Discipline and the AETA 3) How Animal Advocates can, and why we should, take up the mantle of other social justice movements |
Resistance Chair: Dylan Powell 1) Queer Communiqués: Operation Splash Back! and the Challenge to Speciesism 2) Joining the Resistance: Farmed Animals Making History 3) Earth Liberation and Political Prisoners _______________ |
| 10:35 – 12:05 | Direct Action Chair: Dylan Powell 1) The Radical Debate: A straw man in the movement? 2) Conflict Gypsy 3) Criminal, plain and simple: The Animal Liberation Front discourse of Canadian newspapers in the early 1990s |
Spirituality and Religion Chair: Steven William Halady 1) A Buddhist Response to the Exploitation of Nonhuman Animals in Capitalist Societies 2) Animals, Religion, and the Environment 3) Stillingfleet on Adam and Species |
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Lunch _________________________________ |
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| 1:05 – 2:35 | Animal Trials and Personhood Chair: Mark Lafrenz 1) A People’s Inquiry Sarah Lewison and Cade Bursell 2) The Problems of Personhood: Re-evaluating the Foundations of Our Contemporary Ethical Conceptions James Stanescu 3) Revolution & Species: The Historical Case of Animal Trials _______________ |
Farmed Animals and Industry Rhetoric Chair: Nancy Rourke 1) Killing With Kindness: Pro-Slaughter Rhetoric in the Horse Industry John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka 2) This Little Piggy Went to Market: Animal Life and Death in Pork Industry Rhetoric
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2:40 – 4:10 |
History Chair: Steven William Halady 1) Doggonomics: Dollars, Dogs, and the Rise of Flesh Banks in Nineteenth Century America 2) Women, Wealth and Animals: The Role of Women in Funding the Companion Animal Welfare Movement in the United States, 1866 to 1945 3) Economic Justice for All (Nonhuman and Human) Retirees: A Case Study of the Animal Activism of President Warren G. Harding and Florence Kling Harding |
Animals, Cultures and Subcultures 1) Indignados beyond species: Experiences and insights on the Animal Rights Movement in Latin America 2) Deconstructing Privilege: Veganism, Whiteness, and Narrative Co-Construction 3) Spurs and Speciesism: Country Music and the Commercialization of Animal Cruelty |
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4:15 – 5:00 |
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Closing _________________________________ |
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