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1 Living with Animals 3: Co-Existence Co-organized by Robert W. Mitchell & Radhika N. Makecha Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, 22-25 March 2017 Location: Perkins Conference Center Special Sessions: Seeing with Animals, organized by Julia A. Schlosser Living with Horses, co-organized by Gala Argent & Angela Hofstetter Conference overview Each day begins with a keynote speaker, and follows with two tracks that run concurrently. Coffee breaks and food: Most food and drink are served in the AB Hallway: Breakfast foods, snacks and coffee/tea/water are available throughout the day, and Qdoba box lunch (Weds.) and Babylon Middle Eastern lunch (Friday). The Buffet (Saturday) during the Poster Session will be served in the lobby. On Thursday, lunch can be obtained across the street from Perkins Conference Center, at the Stratton Café in the Stratton Building, and dinner prior to the keynote can be obtained at the Powell Building (shuttle buses will take you there). Book and merchandise displays: Throughout the conference in Room 209, there are books and merchandise displayed. Several university presses have generously provided books for your perusal (as well as order sheets), and some conference participants will be displaying their books as well. Wednesday features the Seeing with Animals sessions in two concurrent streams as well as numerous art exhibitions in the lobby and Rooms 210 and 214, has a boxed lunch from Qdoba to allow you to spend time with the artworks, and has an optional (pre-paid) trip to Berea for shopping and dinner at the Historic Boone Tavern Restaurant. Formal portfolio reviews will take place in Room 221. Thursday continues the Seeing with Animals sessions in one stream, and features the Living with Horses sessions in the other stream. Art continues to be shown in Rooms 210 and 214. Friday continues the Living with Horses sessions in one stream, and features the Living with Animals sessions in the other stream. There will be a Middle Eastern buffet, made available by Society & Animals, and Brill Publishers. Art continues to be shown in Rooms 210 and 214. Friday ends with the Conference Dinner at Masala Indian restaurant. Saturday continues the Living with Animals sessions throughout the day in concurrent sessions, with the intervening Poster Presentations during a buffet lunch. Art continues to be shown in Rooms 210 and 214. 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 Primate Rescue Center (PRC) and the Kentucky Equine Humane Center. There will be a lunch provided at the PRC. NOTE: Boxed lunch, conference dinner, and buffet lunches are included in registration fee. Parking is free at the Perkins Conference Center. It is a short walk to the entrance at the building. Shuttle schedule is in the folder. Foothills Shuttle, phone: 859-624-3236, M-F, 8:30am-4:30pm. You may also contact David Sowder at 859-893-4363 if you are having shuttle difficulties. Posters can be put up on Saturday morning. Posters can be attached to a 3 feet x 4 feet poster board on an easel. Pushpins will be provided. (If you have a poster relevant to Seeing with 2 Animals, you can put it up on Wednesday in the lobby; if you have a poster relevant to Living with Horses, you can put it up on Thursday in the lobby.) Presentations: Some time before your talk, please see your session moderator to download your presentation or explain how you plan to proceed. Talks (other than hour-long 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 moderator before your session. Some Panels have organized their session differently. We wish to extend a special thank you to Office Depot, 859 Eastern Bypass Road, Richmond KY for their generous donation of the printing of the conference materials, and to the EKU Campus Bookstore (run by Barnes & Noble) for their generous donation of EKU folders. We also thank Perry Ritter for creating our conference poster. 3 Conference Schedule for Living with Animals 3: Co-Existence Wednesday through Saturday, 22-25 March: Co-Existence: An Art Exhibition Curated by Julia Schlosser and Alexandra Murphy Artist books (for examination): Room 209 Still images, continuous loop: Room 210 Video reel, continuous loop: Room 214 The Sitter, The Dog, The Artist: Live performance by Minnie Teckman, simulcast from NN Contemporary Art, Northampton UK, then continuous loop: Room 210 Books for Examination, and Book, Art, and T-shirts for Sale For Examination: Publishers’ Books: Room 209 For Sale: Conference T-shirts and Co-Existence: An Art Exhibition catalog along with limited edition box sets with artists prints: Room 209 Proceeds from purchases will be used to assist in payment of graduate student registration fees in future conferences. Wednesday, 22 March Conference Room AB 9:00-9:20 Welcome to Living with Animals Robert W. Mitchell & Radhika N. Makecha, Conference organizers Michael T. Benson, President of Eastern Kentucky University Sara Zeigler, Dean of College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences 9:20-9:30 Seeing with Animals Welcome to “Seeing with Animals,” Introduction to Keri Cronin Julia A. Schlosser, Conference Organizer 9:30-10:30 Keynote Looking Back: The Art of Early Animal Advocacy Campaigns Keri Cronin 10:30-10:50 Break 4 Wednesday, 22 March (continued) Seeing with Animals, Session A Conference Room AB 10:50-11:50 Dogs Seen as Conduits of Meaning Session Moderator: Angela Bartram Explored Geographies: Companion Experiences Julia A. Schlosser Where is Home? The Unpredictability of Life as a Cypriot Stray Dog Carole Baker A Discussion on the Validity of Using a Companion Dog as a ‘Stand-In’ in Portraiture and as a Human Family Member Mary-Jane Opie 11:50-2:10 Lunch (Boxed lunch from Qdoba) Lunchtime activities: 12:10-2:10 Informal Portfolio Review: Perkins Conference Center Lobby See also information on p. 3 about Co-Existence: An Art Exhibition 1:00-2:00 For Artists: Formal Individual Portfolio Reviews: Room 221 1:00-1:20 Gazing at Sophia: Live performance (reading) Tanja Böhme Room 214 2:10-3:30 Envisioning Animal Lives and Deaths Session Moderator: Keri Cronin Seeing the Dying Animal: Hollywood and the Hereafter Debra Merskin The Elderly Animals Project Isa Leshko Landfill Dogs Shannon Johnstone Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Unforeseen Consequences of Co-Existence with Vultures, Fruit Bats, and Viruses Maria Lux 3:30-3:50 Break 5 Wednesday, 22 March (continued) Seeing with Animals, Session A (continued) Conference Room AB 3:50-4:50 Cultural Sources and the Production of Non-Human Animal Identities Session Moderator: David C. Wood Oversight/Rendered: Imaging Non-human Lives in the Time of Web Cameras Joseph Moore Culture / Craft / Kitsch - What Did We Really Learn About Animals? Hagar Cygler Bringing the Animal into Focus Tanja Böhme ~5:20-5:30 Busses for Berea dinner 6 Wednesday, 22 March (continued) Seeing with Animals Session B Conference Room C 10:50-12:10 Ethics, Economics and the Representation of Interspecies Relationships Session Moderator: Debra Merskin Encountering Frans Post’s Spectacles and Studies of Animals Abigail Rapoport “Capturing” the Hunted Hare: An Artist’s Ethical Dilemma in Eating Wild Game Linda Johnson The Sea Vast and Empty: Erasing Van Anthonissen's Whale Evan D. Williams Re-Imagining Work: Animal-Human Collaboration in Heinrich von Zügel’s Heavy Labor Paintings Kathleen Chapman 12:10-2:10 Lunch (Boxed lunch from Qdoba) Lunchtime activities: 12:10-2:10 Informal Portfolio Review: Perkins Conference Center Lobby See also information on p. 3 about Co-Existence: An Art Exhibition 1:00-2:00 For Artists: Formal Individual Portfolio Reviews: Room 221 1:00-1:20 Gazing at Sophia: Live performance (reading) Tanja Böhme Room 214 2:10-3:30 Contemporary Practices in the Anthropocene: Threat, Empathy, Resilience Session Moderator: Jessica Dallow It’s More Afraid of Us: Perceptions of Animals in the Work of Curtis Bartone Curtis Bartone Strange Evolution: Animals and Art in the Anthropocene David Roon Enchanting Cervidae Gretchen Woodman From the Passion of Christ to the Calvary of Animals Estela Torres 7 Wednesday, 22 March (continued) Seeing with Animals Session B (continued) Conference Room C 3:30-3:50 Break 3:50-5:10 Co-Existence: Mourning, Repair, Reclamation Session Moderator: David Roon A Monument for Animals We Do Not Mourn Linda Brant Passed Lives: The Roadside Memorial Project L. A. Watson The Urban/Wild Coyote Project Kathryn Eddy The Contemporary Art Animal Repair Mylène Ferrand Lointier ~5:20-5:30 Busses for Berea dinner 8 Thursday, 23 March Living with Horses begins, Seeing with Animals continues Conference Room AB 9:00 Announcements Award to the Kentucky Equine Humane Center Introduction to Brett Mizelle Jeannette Vaught 9:15-10:15 Keynote Killing in Jest, Dying in Earnest: Human-Squirrel Entanglements in Past and Present Brett Mizelle 10:15-10:25/10:30 Break 9 Thursday, 23 March (continued) Living with Horses Session A Conference Room AB 10:25-10:50 Introduction to “Living with Horses” Gala Argent & Angela Hofstetter, Conference Co-organizers and Moderators Symbolism, Synchrony and Theory of Mind: Thoughts on Recent VetMed Studies and the Characteristics and Capabilities of Horses Gala Argent 10:50-11:50 Human-Horse Relationality Bringing Up Life With Horses Stephen
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