Living with Animals Conference Co-organized by Robert W. Mitchell, Radhika N. Makecha, & Michał Piotr Pręgowski Eastern Kentucky University, 19-21 March 2015 Cover design: Kasey L. Morris Conference overview Each day begins with a keynote speaker, and follows with two tracks (in separate locations) that will run concurrently. Breakfast foods and coffee/tea/water will be available prior to the morning keynotes. Coffee breaks (i.e., snacks and coffee/tea/water) are scheduled between sequential groups of talks. Thus, for example, if one session is from 9:05-10:15, and the next session is 10:40-11:40, there is a coffee break from 10:15-10:40. Drinks and edibles should be visible at or near the entry to the rooms where talks are held. Book display: Throughout the conference in Library Room 201, there is a book display. 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. 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 and 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, conference dinner, and buffet lunch included in registration fee. Locations (see map on livingwithanimals.eku.edu, and in folder): People at EKU are extremely friendly, so if you get lost, just ask someone where the building or room you want to find is, and he or she will direct you. The Library is the Crabbe Library. 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), Rooms 201, 204G and 208 are located on the second floor, and the Saturday buffet lunch and poster presentations are located on the third floor. 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. 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. Thursday, 19 March 2015 9:00-9:20am Grand Reading Room EKU President Michael T. Benson Welcome to EKU Robert W. Mitchell, Radhika Makecha, & Michał Pręgowski Welcome to Living with Animals 2: Interconnections 9:20-10:25am Radhika Makecha Introduction to Ian Duncan Ian Duncan Asking the Animals Living with Horses Chair: Gala Argent 10:45-10:50am Grand Reading Room Gala Argent 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 Thursday, 19 March 2015 (Concurrent sessions to “Living with Horses”) Living with Elephants Chair: Radhika 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 Beasts: Canine Science versus Whispering 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 Optional (Pre-paid) trip to Berea with Dinner: ~5:00-9:00pm Friday, 20 March 2015 9:00-10:05am Grand Reading Room Robert W. Mitchell Introduction to Julia Schlosser Julia Schlosser TITLE 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 Jack Furlong & Ellen 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. Lorenzen Let's Strike while the Iron is Hot! Using the Cause of Equine Welfare as a Vehicle for Teaching Information Literacy Susan Rustick Transforming Human Identity: Encounters in the Classroom through Animal Eyes ~11:40pm Pick up BOXED LUNCHES OUTSIDE Room 108 12:00-1:30 Room 108 Robert W. Mitchell, Anne Perkins, Erica Feuerbacher, & Mary Trachsel Developing the Animal Studies/Anthrozoology Curriculum Short Movie “Animal Blessings” and discussion by filmmaker 1:50-2:30 Grand Reading Room Claudia Medina Animal Blessings: Rituals of Appreciation as Pathways to Ecological Reconnection Friday, 20 March 2015 Concurrent Sessions: Animal Agency Chair: Amy Nelson 3:00-4:00pm Room 108 Jeanne Dubino Listening to the Dogs: Orhan Pamuk and the Mongrelization of Fiction Laura Keith Creatures of Warfare: The Use, Misuse and Agency of World War I Animals Amy Nelson Canine Agency in the Soviet Manned Spaceflight Program Animals in Ecological Cultures Chair: Ed Frederickson 3:00-4:00pm Grand Reading Room Robert Michael Morrissey Tall-Grass Ethnohistory: Indians, Europeans, and Other Animals in the Prairie Borderlands Ed Frederickson, An Peischel, Greg Brann & Rick Griebenow Potential Applications for Targeted Grazing to Enhance Ecosystem Services and Rural Economies in Eastern Kentucky Benjamin Z. Freed Pleistocene Humans and Canids: A View from Studies of Primate Polyspecific Associations Concurrent Sessions: Animal Agency (continued) Chair: Sarah Tsiang 4:20-5:00pm Room 108 Magdalen J. Walton Killer Whales or Whale Killers? A Routine Activities Analysis Introducing Agency Among Orca Whales during the Capture of Orca Calves Linda J. Sumption “The tiniest glance”: Narrative, Wildlife, and the Recognition of Intimacy Imagining Alternatives Chair: Brett Mizelle 4:20-5:20pm Grand Reading Room Kathryn Kirkpatrick “Every Polar Bear Alive”: Representing Animals in the Sixth Extinction Ziba Rashidian Epistemological Artifacts, or Death and the Specimen: Nabokov’s Butterflies, for Example Brett Mizelle Mary Griffith’s Odd Future: Real and Imagined Human-Animal Relationships in Antebellum America Conference Dinner at Masala Indian Restaurant: ~6:00-9:00 Saturday, 21 March 2015 9:00-10:05am Grand Reading Room Michał Pręgowski Introduction to Marie-José Enders-Slegers Marie-José Enders-Slegers The Human Animal Bond and Further Professionalizing of Human-Animal Interventions: Theories, Results and Challenges Concurrent Sessions (Morning) Communication and Connection Chair: Sara Waller 10:30-11:50am Grand Reading Room Linda Brant American Pet Cemetery Gravestone Image Pairings: A Visual Strategy for Exploring Interspecies Relationships Martha Robinson Avian Encounters: Connecting with Bird Lives through Live Streaming and Contemporary Art Jane Desmond & Maria Lux Thinking “Big”: Collaborative Processes between Artists and Scholars for Public Art Production Sara Waller, Christopher Kloth, & Mariana Olsen Cats Talk Back: Feral & Socialized Making Decisions for Animals Chair: Matthew Pianalto 10:30-11:30am Room 108 Hazuki Kajiwara Strong Bonds, Ambiguous Futures: Responses to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Japan Miranda K. Workman Euthanasia Decisions in the Sheltering Industry - A Critical Inquiry Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton Living with animals--When People are in Conflict about Animals Saturday, 21 March 2015 POSTER SESSION AND BUFFET LUNCH 11:50am-1:50pm Posters will be presented during a Buffet Lunch in the Library, Third Floor.