This Saturday (23 November) Professor Nayanika Mathur will deliver the keynote address at the British Animal Studies Network conference in Leeds. Her lecture is entitled: "Big Cats in the Indian City: Out-of-place beasts in the Anthropocene". The full schedule of the conference is below and for further details or to attend, please visit: https://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/FutureMeetings/Movements.aspx
Friday 22 November 2019
1.00-1.30 – Registration
1.30-3.00 – Panel 1: Recording Animal Movements
Jonathon Turnbull (University of Cambridge) – ‘Tracking Mutant Wolves in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: digital/bodily presence/absence’
Lucy Neat (University of Manchester) – ‘“A Natural Tale”: Le Peuple Migrateur (Winged Migration) and Affective Responses to the Representation of Avian Migration’
Scott Hunter (King’s College, London) – ‘Televising the Equine Athlete: British Race Horses and the Evolution of the BBC's Outside Broadcast Unit’
3:00-3.30 – Coffee
3.30-5.00 – Panel 2: Forced Movements
Sundhya Walther (University of Manchester) – ‘Multispecies Migrations: Refugee Bonds and the Holding of Space’
Louisa M. Gould et al. (Aarhus University) – ‘Moving animals from the farm to the slaughterhouse: road transport of sows’
Katrina Holland (Dogs Trust) – ‘Crossing the Border from Commodity to Companion: International Puppy Smuggling Networks’
5.00-6.30 – BASN Buffet
6.30-7.30 – Beware the Cat
Saturday 23 November 2019
9.00-10.00 – Plenary: Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
10:00-10:30 – Coffee
10.30-12:00 – Panel 3: Bodily Motility
André Krebber (University of Kassel) – ‘The Wicked Octopus’
Chelsea Harry (Southern Connecticut State University) – ‘Aristotle on Animal Sensation and Affiliated Movements’
Julia Myatt (University of Birmingham) – ‘Collaboration, Coordination and Compliance: Studying locomotion in animals’
12.00-12.45 – Lunch
12.45-2.15 – Panel 4: Mobile Animal Exhibits
Rebecca Machin (Leeds Museums and Galleries) – ‘Finding Mok: tracing the journey of a young gorilla’
Helen Cowie (University of York) – ‘Insectivores in Motion: A Tale of Two Anteaters, Madrid 1776 and London 1853’
Katla Kjartansdóttir (University of Iceland) – ‘The Great Auk as a Mobile Museum Object’
2.15-2.45 – Coffee
2.45-4.15 – Panel 5: Creaturely Volition
Sese Ma (Kyoto University) – ‘Lives on the Move in a Border Zone: Attending to Himalayan Stray Dogs’ Personal Choices in Langtang, Nepal’
Alex Lockwood (University of Sunderland) – ‘Hopping, crawling, hiding: creatural movements on the pathway to climate emergency’
Diana L. Ahmad (Missouri University of Science and Technology) – ‘One-Half Billion Strong They Came: Gray Squirrel Migrations in the American Old Northwest during the 19th Century’
4.15 – End
