Living with Animals 2: Interconnections
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Living with Animals 2: Interconnections Co-organized by Robert W. Mitchell, Radhika N. Makecha, & Michał Piotr Pręgowski Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, 19-21 March 2015 Conference overview Locations: All talks are in the Crabbe Library, in the Grand Reading Room and Room 108. You enter the library from outside on the second floor. If you follow straight through doorways from the outside, you will eventually arrive at the Grand Reading Room, which is on the second floor. Room 108 is located on the first floor (the basement) to the left of the staircase, and the Saturday buffet lunch and poster presentations are located on the third floor. If lost, ask someone for help. Timeline: Each day begins with a keynote speaker, and follows with two tracks that run concurrently. • Thursday features the “Living with Horses” sessions, as well as concurrent sessions, and has an optional (pre-paid) trip to Berea for shopping and dinner at the Historic Boone Tavern Restaurant. • Friday features the “Teaching with Animals” sessions throughout the morning and early afternoon (which includes a boxed lunch during panel discussions and a movie showing and discussion); “Living with Animals” sessions continuing in the late afternoon, and a Conference Dinner at Masala Indian restaurant. • Saturday includes “Living with Animals” sessions throughout the day with intervening Poster Presentations during a buffet lunch. In addition, there is the optional trip to the White Hall State Historic Site (you pay when you arrive at the site). • Sunday includes an optional (pre-paid) trip to the Kentucky Horse Park. Note: Boxed lunch (Friday), conference dinner (Friday), and buffet lunch (Saturday) are included in the registration fee. Talks (other than keynotes) will be 20 minutes long, presumably 15 minutes for the presentation, and 5 minutes for questions. If you wish to arrange your 20 minutes differently (e.g., 18 minutes for presentation, 2 minutes for questions), speak with your session chair before your session. Posters can be put up on Saturday morning in the large room on the third floor to the right upon leaving the staircase. Please be sure to have your poster up before 11am. Posters will be attached to a 3 feet x 4 feet poster board on an easel. Pushpins will be provided. Book displays: Throughout the conference in Room 201, there are books from several university presses (see final page of Acknowledgments), which have generously provided books for your perusal (as well as order sheets). Conference participants may display their books as well. Coffee breaks: Breakfast foods, snacks and coffee/tea/water are available throughout the day. Parking on campus is located ONLY in the Commuter section of the Alumni Coliseum parking lot. Be sure to avoid parking in the yellow Faculty E parking locations in the Alumni Coliseum lot, or you may be towed. Saturday parking, however, can be anywhere on campus. Please contact us if you need special assistance in traveling to and from locations. Shuttle schedule is in the folder. Foothills Shuttle, phone: 859-624-3236, Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm. 1 Art at the Living with Animals Conference We are delighted to have an abundance of visual art in diverse media during the conference. Three guest artists were invited to exhibit: Peter Sherman shows his ceramic animal sculptures, and Julia Schlosser and (separately) John Hockensmith, their photographs. (See abstracts for other art during the conference.) Visit with our guest artists during the Arts Walks, Thursday, 3:30-5:00pm, & Saturday, 4:10- 5:30pm. See next page for details of their works, as well as those of other artists during the conference. Julia Schlosser is an artist, art historian and educator who lives and works in the Los Angeles area. She has taught at a number of universities and community colleges in the Southern California area since 2004. Currently she is a lecturer at California State University, Northridge, and a part time instructor at College of the Canyons where she teaches digital photography and the history of photography; she has also taught an online course, Animals and Art, for the EKU Animal Studies program, and was a co-organizer of EKU’s first Living with Animals Conference. She writes of her photographic work, which typically concerns human-animal interaction, in the abstract for her talk. Her work is installed just off the Grand Reading Room. Peter Sherman has studied birds in the Amazonian Basin in Peru, dragonflies in Japan, and ghost crabs in the Sultanate of Oman, where he worked for a year at Sultan Qaboos University as a Fulbright Scholar. He was a newly tenured Biology professor at Transylvania University when he had a stroke that caused aphasia, resulting in a difficulty in finding or speaking the words he wants. He turned to ceramics as a means of expressing himself and exploring the relationships among humans, animals, and the natural world. You can learn more about his work at petertsherman.weebly.com. His works are installed in the main hall soon after you enter the library. John Hockensmith writes, “the horse is my inspiration and serves as my metaphor.” Beginning with his first photograph at age thirteen, of a foal and farm dog, he has gone on to specialize in photographic images of the horse. You can find out more about his work at his webpage: finearteditions.net/john-stephen-hockensmith. John Hockensmith’s work is installed in the large room to the right of the staircase on the third floor of the library. 2 Conference program Thursday, 19 March 2015 9:00-9:20am Grand Reading Room EKU President Michael T. Benson Welcome to EKU Robert W. Mitchell, Radhika N. Makecha, & Michał Pręgowski Welcome to Living with Animals 2: Interconnections 9:20-10:25am Radhika N. Makecha Introduction to Ian J. H. Duncan Ian J. H. Duncan Asking the Animals Living with Horses Chair: Angela Hofstetter 10:45-10:50am Grand Reading Room Angela Hofstetter Introduction to Living with Horses (for Concurrent sessions—see following page) 10:50-11:50am Grand Reading Room Gala Argent “Babysitters” and “Schoolmasters”: The Interpersonal, Intersocial and Intercultural Implications in Learning to Ride and Be Ridden Gwyneth Talley Of Stallions and Men: Moroccan Masculinity in Traditional Horseback-riding Fabienne Meiers The Urban Horse: Equestrian Traffic and Horse Husbandry in Late Medieval Cities 11:50am-1:10pm Lunch (Lunch can be purchased in Powell Building; see map) 1:10-2:10pm Grand Reading Room Hannah M. Biggs Horse Books for Kids: World War II Adolescent Fiction, Film, and Television Jopi Nyman Rereading Sentimentalism in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Affect, Performativity, and Hybrid Spaces Sarah Tsiang Breeds for Needs: Type and Breed Names as a Reflection of the Horse-Human Relationship 2:30-3:30pm Grand Reading Room Keri Cronin “Mendacious Representations?”: The Camera as Witness in the Battle Over the Live Export of Horses in Early 20th Century England Jessica Dallow A “Galaxy of Distinguished Horses”: Schreiber & Sons and the Emergence of Equine Portrait Photography Angela Hofstetter Reel/Real Horses: Animals, Visual Pleasure, and Narrative Cinema 3 Thursday, 19 March 2015 (Concurrent sessions to “Living with Horses”) Living with Elephants Chair: Radhika N. Makecha 10:50-11:50am Room 108 Catherine Doyle Keeper-Elephant Relationships: A Discussion of Patterns found in Keeper Perception of the Human-Elephant Relationship, and the Potential for Disconnect. Preston Foerder What Do Elephants Know and When Do They Know It? Ratna Ghosal, Andre Ganswindt Polani B Seshagiri, & Raman Sukumar Endocrine and Behavioural Correlates of Musth in Male Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) 11:50am-1:10pm Lunch (Lunch can be purchased in Powell Building; see map) Emotions Chair: Laura Newhart 1:10-2:10pm Room 108 Theo Verheggen Embodied Cognition and Affect Attunement in Anthrozoological Research Michele Merritt Depressed Dogs, Heartbroken Humans, and a New Philosophy of Emotions Melissa Burns-Cusato, Brian Cusato, & Amanda Glueck Threats from the Past: Barbados Green Monkeys Retain Fear of Ancestral Predators for over 350 Years Living with Dogs Chair: Michał Pręgowski 2:30-3:50pm Room 108 Helena Pycior Collective Memory of the “First Dogs”: Privilege and Power of the “First Families” of the United States Michał Piotr Pręgowski Dog Training as Taming, Dogs as Wild Beasts: Whispering versus Canine Science Scott Hurley The Dog Fancy: A Site for the Intersection of Ableist, Healthist, and Speciesist Ideologies Erica Feuerbacher & Clive Wynne Most Dogs Prefer Food…But Sometimes They Don’t: Effects of Familiarity, Context, and Schedule on Dogs’ Preference for Food or Petting ____________ Arts Walk—See the Art, Meet the Artist! 3:30-5:00pm Experience the art at the conference with the artist present! Peter Sherman‘s artwork is at the front of the library, Julia Schlosser‘s, to the side of the Grand Reading Room, and John Hockensmith’s, on the third floor to the right when you arrive by stairway. Grab some food and drink, and wander! Optional (Pre-paid) trip to Berea with Dinner: ~5:00-9:00pm 4 Friday, 20 March 2015 9:00-10:05am Grand Reading Room Robert W. Mitchell Introduction to Julia Schlosser Julia Schlosser Walking the Dog: An Exploration of Recent Lens-Based Images of Companion Animals Concurrent Teaching with Animals Sessions Follow: Teaching with animals 1 Chair: Mary Trachsel 10:30-11:30am Grand Reading Room Mary Trachsel Ecological Consciousness Raising: Animal Studies in the Anthropocene Jeannette Vaught Animal Infiltrations: Teaching Animal Studies in Traditional Courses Ellen Furlong & Jack Furlong Melding Justice and Science: An Interdisciplinary Course, “Ape Sapiens: Wild Minds and Captive Dignity” Teaching with animals 2 Chair: Stephanie McSpirit 10:30-11:30am Room 108 Joseph Tuminello Teaching with Foer's Eating Animals Elizabeth A.