7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies
I is in your conferences, demandin’ rights!
ZOMG how awesome and (literally) radical does this conference look? They are going to be playing my F-Files interview, too! The schedule is below the jump, and more info is here.
7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies
Events Schedule for April 24-26, 2009
http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org
Friday, April 24, 7:00pm & 8:00pm
at Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave. Hartford, CT 06106
She is a River:
Reception, Book signing and Art Exhibit
Inspired by the Park/Hog River that flows both above and below the ground in Hartford, CT, she is a River is part fairy tale, part coming of age story, part social commentary and is filled with rich symbolism and the compelling artwork of Hartford author and artist, Sugati. Wine and hors d’oeuvres served. Free.
As Above, So Below: A Discussion of Ecofeminism
8:00pm. In celebration of the release of She is a River, we will host a panel discussion exploring patriarchal control of nature and its link to sexism, speciesism and other forms of social oppression and hierarchy.
Saturday, April 25th:
230 Prospect, Seminar Room, Yale University, New Haven
7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
8-8:20: Mill around/Get acquainted
8:20-8:30: Conference welcome/introduction
8:30-10: Panel 1: Education and Media
Presenters:
George S. Matejka: “Benefits of Teaching a College Course on Animals and Ethics”
William Crain: “Animal Suffering: Learning Not to Care and Not to Know”
Marie-France Boissonneault: “Nonhuman Animals, Healers and Popular Media”
10-11:30: Panel 2: The Politics of Diet and Conceptualizing “Life”
Presenters:
Vasile Stanescu: “Globalvore: Globalization, Locavores, and the Environment”
Ciara Murphy: “No Art: The Performance of Ethical Aesthetics in the Tissue Culture and Art Project”
Zaac Chaves: “Foraging Resistance”
11:30-12:00: Presentation
The N. American Animal Liberation Press Office Presents Linwood Bingham and Camille Hankins: “Commonalities of the Struggle for Animal Liberation with Historical and Concurrent Struggles for Liberation among other (Human) Groups”
12-1: LUNCH!–The F-Files “Feminism, Veganism, and Animal Rights”
1-2: Presentation
Lisa Kemmerer: “Eating Earth”– This talk explores the link between what one chooses to eat and environmental problems of our time. From methane belching to water consumption, the talk exposes the error of eating animal based products in a world of limited resources.
2-2:45: Presentation
Karen Davis: “Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology to Affirmative Action for Animals”
2:45-4: Theoretical Interventions
Presenters:
Sarah Reese: “A Consideration of Mere Life and Bodily Relationships”
Deke Weaver: “The Unreliable Bestiary”
Ian Smith: “Abolitionism without Rights:
4-5: Panel 3: Anarchism, Animal Liberation, and the Animal Standpoint
Presenters:
Deric Shannon: “Anarchism, Food Not Bombs, and the Politics of Lifestyle”
Anthony J. Nocella, II: “Anarchism, Animals, and Disability”
Richard Kahn: “Towards an Animal Standpoint: Vegan Education and the Epistemology of Ignorance”
5-6:30: Panel 4: From Safe Spaces to a Safe Society
Presenters:
Grant Harris: “Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary”
Justin Goodman: ” Confronting Classroom Cruelty: How to Help Animals and Create an Ethical and Inclusive Learning Environment
Piers Beirne: “Green Criminology”
6:30-8: Dinner in New Haven (ICAS will not be providing dinner)
8: TBA vigil and/or protest
April 26th:
Nonviolence workshop will be held on the 26th near Yale University in New Haven. Details TBA.
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