'Products', Pests'

‘People’, ‘Products’, Pests’ and ‘Pets’: the discursive representation of animals

First Dissemination Event - Programme

King’s College London, Waterloo Campus, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Friday 22nd May 2015

10.00 Arrival and coffee ROOM 2.40

10.15 Introductions and overview of the project ROOM 2.40

11.00 Coffee / Tea ROOM 2.40

11.30 The corpus data: presentation + discussion ROOM 2.40 Alison Sealey

12.15 The interview and focus-group data: ROOM 2.40 presentation + discussion Guy Cook 1.00 LUNCH BYO (see further information below)

2.00 Carousel Session 1 (A) ROOM 2.40 (B) ROOM 2.46 (C) ROOM 2.47 Guy Cook and Clyde Alison Sealey and Anda Drasovean and Ancarno Chris Pak Emma McClaughlin Language about Exploration of Comparative / killing in the themes and contrastive features 2.50 Carousel Session 2 interview and focus- linguistic patterns in of language about group data the corpus data animals across time and place 3.40 Tea ROOM 2.40

4.10 Round-table discussion ROOM 2.40 Chair: Dr Kieran O'Halloran Panellists: Dr John Bradshaw, Professor John Dupré, Professor Timothy Ingold, Professor Brigitte Nerlich, Dr Arran Stibbe

5.45 Closing remarks ROOM 2.40

6.00 Wine reception ROOM 2.40

How to get here King’s College London (Waterloo Campus) Franklins Wilkins Building - Room 2.40 (5 minute-walk from Waterloo) Stamford Street London SE1 9NH Tel - +44 (0)20 7836 5454 There are two maps showing you exactly where the building is at the following link: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/waterloo/waterloo.aspx Further information about how to get there: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/directions/Waterloo.aspx Access for people with disabilities: http://www.disabledgo.com/access-guide/kings-college-london/franklin-wilkins-building-2

Lunch You will need to make your own arrangements for lunch - i.e. bring your own or visit one of the many and varied affordable outlets near the venue (e.g. Wagamama http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info/shop-eat-drink/restaurants/wagamama; Costa, M & S, etc. at Waterloo Station http://www.networkrail.co.uk/london-waterloo-station/shops/ and our favourite: Lebanese falafel sandwiches for £3).

More information about the project is available on our website: http://animaldiscourse.wordpress.com/

Timetable carousel sessions

Carousel Session 1 / 2.00-2.50 Room Session Participants Guy Cook and Clyde Ancarno Christopher Ward Key themes emerging from the interview Steve Loughnan and focus-group data Marie Fox Caroline Spence Matthew Reed Charlotte Taylor Rosie Wardle Nelya Koteyko John Bradshaw Room 2.40 Alison Sealey and Chris Pak Elena Lazutkaite Exploration of themes and linguistic Sylvia Jaworska patterns in the corpus data Tim Ingold Jarred Piazza Nickie Charles Chris Tang Emma Franklin Jim Clarke Room 2.46 Anda Drasovean and Emma McClaughlin Arran Stibbe Comparative / contrastive features of Eri Tsukamoto language about animals across time and Abigail Woods place Caroline Tagg Chris Wilbert Olivia Knapton John Dupré Room 2.47

Carousel Session 2 / 2.50-3.40 Room Session Participants Guy Cook and Clyde Ancarno Elena Lazutkaite Key themes emerging from the interview Sylvia Jaworska and focus-group data Eri Tsukamoto Tim Ingold Abigail Woods Chris Tang Caroline Tagg (or Corpus) Chris Wilbert Emma Franklin Olivia Knapton John Dupré Room 2.40 Alison Sealey and Chris Pak Christopher Ward Exploration of themes and linguistic Arran Stibbe patterns in the corpus data Caroline Spence Matthew Reed Charlotte Taylor Nelya Koteyko John Bradshaw Room 2.46 Anda Drasovean and Emma McClaughlin Steve Loughnan Comparative / contrastive features of Marie Fox language about animals across time and Jarred Piazza place Nickie Charles Rosie Wardle Jim Clarke Room 2.47

Round Table Discussants – brief bio-notes

John Bradshaw is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. His research is in anthrozoology - the science of human-animal interactions. He focuses in particular on the behaviour and welfare of domestic cats and dogs, and their relationships with people. In addition to his writing in scientific journals, he is known for making the science of cat and dog welfare accessible to pet owners, through books, articles, radio and television, including the BBC TV Horizon programmes “The Secret Life of the Cat” and “Little Cat Diaries”. Some indicative publications include:  Bradshaw, J. 2012. In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding. Penguin  Bradshaw, J., Blackwell, E. & Casey, R. 2009. ‘Dominance in domestic dogs: useful construct or bad habit?’. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, vol 4., pp. 135 – 144  Casey, R., Vandenbussche, S., Bradshaw, J. & Roberts, M. 2009. ‘Reasons for relinquishment and return of domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) to rescue shelters in the U.K’. Anthrozoos, vol 22., pp. 347 - 358 http://www.bris.ac.uk/vetscience/people/88445/research.html

John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science, with a main focus on philosophy of biology, and Director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, which from 2002-2012 was the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, at the University of Exeter. His current work aims to rethink central issues in the philosophy of biology by elaborating an ontology for biology that takes full account of the processual nature of living systems. Some indicative publications include:  Dupré, J. 2002 Humans and Other Animals. Oxford University Press  Dupré, J. 2012 Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology. Oxford University Press  Dupré, J. 2006 “Scientific Classification”, in Special Issue of Theory, Culture and Society on “Problematizing Global Knowledge”, vol. 23, pp. 30-32. http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/dupre/

Tim Ingold holds a Chair in Social Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. His research spans a very wide range of interests, from fieldwork researching reindeer herding and husbandry in northern Finland, and domestic organisation and rural economy among northern Finnish farmers, to his current project that ‘promises to reconfigure the relation between the practice of academic inquiry in the human sciences and the knowledge to which it gives rise’. His theoretical interests also include: human-animal relations; theories of evolution in anthropology, biology and history; and relations between biological, psychological and anthropological approaches to culture and social life. Some indicative publications include:  Ingold, T. (ed.) 1994. What is an Animal? London: Routledge.  Ingold, T. 2000. ‘From trust to domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations’. In The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, by Tim Ingold. London: Routledge, pp. 61-76.  Ingold, T. 2005. 'Naming as storytelling: speaking of animals among the Koyukon of Alaska'. in Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, by Tim Ingold. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 165-175.  Ingold, T. 2013. ‘Anthropology beyond humanity’. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 38(3): 5- 23. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/people/profiles/tim.ingold

Brigitte Nerlich is Professor of Science, Language, and Society in the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham, with expertise in the social study of science, the philosophy and history of science, general linguistics, cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, history of linguistics, media and cultural studies and metaphor analysis. Her current research focuses on the cultural and political contexts in which metaphors and other framing devices are used in the public, policy and scientific debates about synthetic biology and climate change, and she is Director of the Leverhulme Trust programme Making Science Public. Some indicative publications include:  Nerlich, B. and Koteyko, N., 2012. Crying wolf?: Biosecurity and metacommunication in the context of the 2009 swine flu pandemic. Health & Place. 18(4), 710-717  Hellsten, I. and Nerlich, B., 2010. Bird flu: The spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups. Journal of Language and Politics. 9(3), 393-408  Doering, M. and Nerlich, B., (eds.), 2009. From Mayhem to Meaning: The social and cultural impact of the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK. Manchester University Press. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/people/brigitte.nerlich

Dr Arran Stibbe is Reader in Ecological Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire. His research analyses discourses that are crucial in forming identities and structuring society. He has published on the social construction of health, illness, alternative medicine, disability, masculinity, animals, ecology and the environment, and he is the founder of the Ecolinguistics Association. Some indicative publications include:  Stibbe, Arran. Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live by. London: Routledge, 2015.  Stibbe, A. 2012 Animals Erased: discourse, ecology and reconnection with the natural world. Wesleyan University Press  Stibbe, A. 2006 Deep Ecology and Language: The curtailed journey of the Atlantic salmon. Society and Animals 14:1:61-77 http://insight.glos.ac.uk/academicschools/dh/undergraduatecourses/EnglishLanguage/englishlanguagestaff/Pages/DrArranStibbe.as px

‘People’, ‘Products’, Pests’ and ‘Pets’: the discursive representation of animals - First Dissemination Event King’s College London, Waterloo Campus, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Friday 22nd May 2015

List of participants

'Project Team'

Professor Guy Cook King’s College London [email protected] Professor Alison Sealey Lancaster University [email protected] King’s College London [email protected] Dr Clyde Ancarno Dr Chris Pak Lancaster University [email protected] Ms Anda Drasovean King’s College London [email protected] Ms Emma McClaughlin Lancaster University [email protected]

Participants

Name Affiliation Expertise Email address

Dr Abigail Woods King’s College London History of Animal Health & Livestock Agriculture [email protected] Dr Angela Cassidy King’s College London Animal Health and Medicine & Human-Animal Relations [email protected] Ms Anne-Mette Hermans King’s College London Applied Linguistics [email protected] Dr Arran Stibbe University of Gloucestershire Ecological Linguistics [email protected] Professor Brigitte Nerlich The University of Nottingham Science & Language and Society [email protected] Ms Caroline Spence Queen Mary, University of London Human Animal Studies [email protected] Dr Caroline Tagg University of Birmingham Applied linguistics [email protected] Ms Charlotte Taylor University of Sussex Applied Linguistics [email protected] Dr Chris Tang King’s College London Applied Linguistics [email protected] Dr Chris Wilbert Anglia Ruskin University Geographies of Human-Animal Relations [email protected] Professor Constant Leung King’s College London Educational Linguistics [email protected] Mr Christopher Ward University of Nottingham Anthropology [email protected]

Dr Dawn Knight Cardiff University Corpus Linguistics & Discourse Analysis [email protected] Professor Deirdre Martin Goldsmiths, University of London Multilingualism & Disabilities of Language and Literacy [email protected] Ms Elena Lazutkaite The University of Nottingham Human Animal Studies [email protected] Ms Emma Franklin Wolverhampton University Corpus Linguistics & Human-Animal Studies [email protected] Ms Eri Tsukamoto University of Warwick Sociology, Media Studies [email protected] Dr Jarred Piazza Lancaster University Psychology & Moral Decision-Making [email protected] Dr Jim Clarke Coventry University Corpus Linguistics [email protected] Dr John Bradshaw University of Bristol Zoology of human & Animal Interactions [email protected] Professor John Dupré University of Exeter Philosophy of Biology [email protected] Dr Kieran O'Halloran King’s College London Applied Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics kieran.o'[email protected] Professor Marie Fox University of Birmingham Socio-Legal Studies & Animal Law [email protected] Dr Marit Böker King’s College London Political Theory [email protected] Dr Matthew Reed University of the West of England Sociology of Food & Farming [email protected] Dr Nelya Koteyko Queen Mary, University of London Applied Linguistics [email protected] Professor Nickie Charles University of Warwick Sociology and Animal Studies & Gender [email protected] Dr Olivia Knapton University of Birmingham Discourse Analysis [email protected] Ms Rosie Wardle Jeremy Coller Foundation [email protected] Dr Steve Loughnan The University of Edinburgh Social Psychology [email protected] Ms Susan Maingay King’s College London Applied Linguistics [email protected] Professor Svenja Adolphs The University of Nottingham English Language and Linguistics [email protected] Dr Sylvia Jaworska University of Reading Applied & Corpus Linguistics [email protected] Professor Tim Ingold University of Aberdeen Social Anthropology & Environmental Perception [email protected] Professor Zhu Hua Birkbeck College, University of London Applied Linguistics [email protected]

Food map

Wagamama (Japanese restaurant + noodle bar)

Falafel sandwiches, etc.

Konditor and Cook

Yo! Sushi - Upper Crust - Patisserie Valerie - Mi Casa On Fridays: Southbank Food Market – MANY food stalls! Burritos - M&S Simply Food, etc.

Food outlets  Falafel sandwich stall  Wagamama | Japanese restaurant + noodle bar  Yo! Sushi - Upper Crust - Patisserie Valerie - Mi Casa Burritos - M&S Simply Food, etc.  Konditor and Cook (example of lunch menu below – they also have excellent cakes): Buffet* £3.95 Roast Loch Duart Salmon £3.25 Roast Free-Range Chicken £3.25 Spinach, Goat's Cheese, Red Pepper & Red Onion Quiche (vegetarian) £6.50 Roast Loch Duart Salmon with Mixed Salad £6.15 Roast Free-Range Chicken with Mixed Salad £6.15 Quiche with Mixed Salad (vegetarian) Hot Meat Dish* £6.15 Lasagne with Organic, Grass-Fed Beef Hot Vegetarian Dish* £6.15 Brussel Sprout Risotto (vegetarian) Jacket Potato* £3.85 Chilli con Carne £3.85 Feta & Roast Vegetables (vegetarian) Salad Box* £3.95 Selection of Handmade, Market-Fresh Salads (vegetarian) Soup £2.60 Pea & Mint (vegetarian)