7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies

April 24, 2009
Book Release
Hartford, CT

April 25, 2009
ICAS Conference
Yale University

April 26, 2009
Nonviolence Training
Yale University

New Haven, CT

Registration for this event is FREE

Events Schedule

Friday, April 24, 7-8 pm

Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave. Hartford , CT 06106

She is a River: Reception, Book signing and Art Exhibit

Inspired by the Park/Hog River that flows both above and below the ground in Hartford, CT, she is a River is part fairy tale, part coming of age story, part social commentary and is filled with rich symbolism and the compelling artwork of Hartford author and artist, Sugati. Wine and hors d’oeuvres served. Free.

As Above, So Below: A Discussion of Ecofeminism

In celebration of the release of She is a River, we will host a panel discussion exploring patriarchal control of nature and its link to sexism, speciesism and other forms of social oppression and hierarchy.

Saturday, April 25th

Yale University, 230 Prospect St , Seminar Room, New Haven , CT

7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies

8-8:20: Get acquainted

8:20-8:30: Introduction

8:30-10: Panel 1: Education and Media

• George S. Matejka: “Benefits of Teaching a College Course on Animals and Ethics”
• William Crain: “Animal Suffering: Learning Not to Care and Not to Know”
• Marie-France Boissonneault: “Nonhuman Animals, Healers and Popular Media”

10-11:30: Panel 2: The Politics of Diet and Conceptualizing “Life”

• Vasile Stanescu: “Globalvore: Globalization, Locavores, and the Environment”
• Ciara Murphy: “No Art: The Performance of Ethical Aesthetics in the Tissue Culture and Art Project”
• Zaac Chaves: “Foraging Resistance”

11:30-12:00: Presentation

• Linwood Bingham and Camille Hankins: “Commonalities of the Struggle for Animal Liberation with Historical and Concurrent Struggles for Liberation among other (Human) Groups”

12-1: LUNCH!–The F-Files “Feminism, Veganism, and Animal Rights“

1-2: Presentation

• Lisa Kemmerer: “Eating Earth”– This talk explores the link between what one chooses to eat and environmental problems of our time. From methane belching to water consumption, the talk exposes the error of eating animal based products in a world of limited resources.

2-2:45: Presentation

• Karen Davis: “Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology to Affirmative Action for Animals”

2:45-4: Theoretical Interventions

• Sarah Reese: “A Consideration of Mere Life and Bodily Relationships”
• Deke Weaver: “The Unreliable Bestiary“
• Ian Smith: “Abolitionism without Rights”

4-5: Panel 3: Anarchism, Animal Liberation, and the Animal Standpoint

• Deric Shannon: “Anarchism, Food Not Bombs, and the Politics of Lifestyle”
• Anthony J. Nocella, II: “Anarchism, Animals, and Disability”
• Richard Kahn: “Towards an Animal Standpoint: Vegan Education and the Epistemology of Ignorance”

5-6:30: Panel 4: From Safe Spaces to a Safe Society

• Grant Harris: “Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary“
• Justin Goodman: ” Confronting Classroom Cruelty: How to Help Animals and Create an Ethical and Inclusive Learning Environment
• Piers Beirne: “Green Criminology“

6:30-8: Dinner in New Haven (ICAS will not be providing dinner)

8: Protest: Info TBA

Sunday, April 26th

Nonviolence workshop will be held on the 26th near Yale University in New Haven . Details TBA.

For more information contact:

Deric Shannon
Conference Director
propaganarchy@hotmail.com