The University of Michigan Rackham Animal Studies Workshop is holding a graduate student conference with the theme of "Animal Representation" with keynote speaker Nigel Rothfels on February 8th-9th, 2013. They are looking for panel and individual paper proposals from a wide range of disciplines surrounding their theme. Submission deadline is Saturday, December 1st, 2012.
Conference Title: Animal Representation
Conference Dates: February 8-9, 2013
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Keynote Speaker: Nigel Rothfels, author of *Savages and Beasts: The Birth of
the Modern Zoo* (2002), and editor of *Representing Animals* (2002)
The University of Michigan Rackham Animal Studies Workshop is holding a graduate student conference with the theme of "Animal Representation" on February
8-9, 2013. Nigel Rothfels will be the keynote speaker on Friday evening
with a reception afterwards, followed on Saturday by a full day of conference
presentations. We welcome panel and individual paper proposals from a wide
range of disciplines. Possible submissions may (but do not need to)
address some of the following areas:
- Translation between the human and the animal
- Critiques or defenses of the companionate turn
- Companionate, cohabiting, and/or incompanionate animals
- Liminality of animals
- Anthropomorphism (as gaze, as strategy) and speciesism
- Animals and instrumentality
- Animals, rights, and law
- Disability and animals
- Animal affect/feeling animals
- Technology and animals
- Sites and practices of animal representation (ex. taxidermy, reliquaries, zoos, museums, aquariums, collecting, hoarding, etc.)
- Gendering of animals
- Resistant animal actors (revenge, rebellion, uprising, undesirability, untouchability)
Interested participants should submit a title and abstract (500 words maximum)
to representinganimals2013@umich.edu by *December 1, 2012*. Panel proposals
should conform to a slot of 60 minutes; individual paper submissions should
be no more than 20 minutes long. Participants will be notified of their
acceptance by December 15, 2012.
