Eleventh Annual Conference
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Eleventh Annual Conference |
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ANIMAL ARENAS:
SPACES,
PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
20 - 21 AUGUST 2002
The aim of this conference is to look beyond the utilitarian relationships that humans maintain with animals and to explore other social and cultural practices in which humans engage, or have, historically, engaged with animals. A central theme of the conference is to ask what such performances and exhibitions and the spaces in which they take place reveal about the human societies, cultures and communities that have created them. What is expressed and what is communicated through such human/animal interactions? The spaces might be the natural spaces of oceans, rivers, forests or open countryside that humans enter to watch, photograph or hunt animals. They might be the constructed spaces of arenas, sports stadia, museums, zoos, show rings in which people gather to participate in and to observe performances and competitions or to see animals on show.
The perspectives of the conference will be anthropological, sociological, and cultural but also historical - from the earliest times to the present.
The organisers do not wish to define or limit what constitute the performances and exhibitions of the title but they might include: zoos and menageries; natural history museums; religious and other ceremonies; the competitive exhibition of pedigree animals; circus and other animal shows; taxidermy; hunting and fishing; falconry; sporting events such as horse, dog, pigeon, camel, sled dog racing; equestrian sports such as show jumping, eventing, dressage, polo, rodeo; sheep dog trials and sheep shearing competitions; combative events between humans and animals or animals and animals; safaris and other animal watching events.
The conference will also host a 'free topic' poster session.
Animal Arenas: Spaces, Performances,
and Exhibitions
The Annual Conference of the International
Society for Anthrozoology,
co-organized by Garry Marvin and Erica Fudge
August 20th and 21st 2002: University College,
London
Tuesday 20 August
9.00-10.00 – registration Session 1: 10.00-11.30
Nigel Rothfels (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
‘Lota: An Elephant’s Life’Jeffrey Hyson (Saint Joseph’s University)
‘”The Thrill of Fondling ‘Wild’ Animals”: Children’s Zoos and the Domestication of Nature’Chair: Garry Marvin (University of Surrey Roehampton)
Coffee: 11.30-12.00 Session 2: 12.00-1.30
Panel 1
Clare Palmer (University of Lancaster)
‘Confinement and Spectacle: madness and the animal in Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilisation’Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University)
‘Zoöpticon: The Pornography of Preservation’Chair: Steve Baker (University of Central Lancashire)
Panel 2
Matthew Senior (University of Minnesota, Morris)
‘The Place of the Animalier’Véronique Servais (Université de Liège)
‘Anthropomorphism in the Interactions Between Visitors and Primates in Zoos’Muria Roberts (University College, London)
‘Studying the frequency and nature of the Human-Animal Interactions that occur within Zoo Exhibition Spaces’Chair: Erica Fudge (Middlesex University)
Lunch and Free Topic Poster Session: 1.30-2.30 Session 3: 2.30-4.00
Panel 1
JJane Desmond (University of Iowa)
‘On the Margins of Death: Pet Cemeteries and Mourning Practices’Julie A. Smith (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater)
‘The Role of Place in Animal Death: The Case of the House Rabbit Society’Molly Mullin (Albion College)
‘Feeding the Animals, On-Line’Chair: Clare Palmer (Lancaster University)
Panel 2
Panel: ‘The Archaeology of Zoos (I): landscaping and designs of wilderness’
Organizers: Sarah Cross (English Heritage) and David Van Reybrouck (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)David Van Reybrouck (Department of History, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
‘Materializing the human-animal boundary: an archaeology of the cage.’Sofia Åkerberg (Institute for the History of Ideas, University of Umeå, Sweden)
‘Nature tamed -- not with a fist but with a smile: Zoo nature in London and Prague’Tony Axelsson (Department of Archaeology, Göteborg University, Sweden)
‘Landscapes of inauthenticity – creation of past places and African savannas’Sarah Cross (English Heritage)
‘Landscape with Lions: the place of zoos in 20th century ceremonial practice’
Coffee: 4.00-4.30 Session 4: 4.30-6.00
Panel 1
Jonathan Burt (Cambridge)
‘The Interaction between Sport, War and Technology, 1900-1918’Jo-Ann Shelton (University of California, Santa Barbara)
‘Dancing and Dying: The Display of Elephants in Ancient Roman Arenas’Chair: Diana Donald (Paul Mellon Centre Senior Research Fellow)
Panel 2
Panel: ‘The Archaeology of Zoos (II): between cultural and natural heritage’
Organizers: Sarah Cross (English Heritage) and David Van Reybrouck (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)Cornelius Holtorf (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge)
‘The zoo as archive of memories’Oscar Ortman (Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden)
‘Replicants of reality: on authenticity in zoos and museums’Kathryn Denning (Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
‘To catch a quiddity’
6.00-7.00: Bar Open to All 7.00: Conference Dinner (for those registered only)
Wednesday 21 August
Session 5: 9.30-11.00
Panel 1
Brett Mizelle (California State University, Long Beach)
‘The Downfall of Taste and Genius: Animal Exhibitions and Public Culture in Post-Revolutionary America’Charles Bergman (Pacific Lutheran University)
‘Inventing a Beast with No Body: Radio-Transmitters, Wildlife Biology, and the Simulation of Ecology’Chair: Nigel Rothfels (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
Panel 2
David Zeitlyn (University of Kent)
‘Small Arenas, Large Contexts: Mambila Spider Divination’Bahar Dutt (University of Kent)
‘Of Charmers and Snakes: A Case Study of the Kalbeliyas in India’Chair: Garry Marvin (University of Surrey Roehampton)
Coffee: 11.00-11.30
Session 6: 11.30-1.00
Panel 1
Peter Edwards (University of Surrey Roehampton)
‘The Racecourse as Aristocratic Playground: Horse Racing in Post-Restoration England’Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College, London)
‘Teaching Racehorses to Walk: the thoroughbred auction ring’Meredith Risk (York University, Toronto)
‘Cleaning up Dublin: Discourses of Animal Control and the “Order” of the City’Chair: Debbie Goodwin (University of Southampton)
Panel 2
Anne Alden (Alliant University)
‘Competitive Dog Shows in Artwork of The New Yorker’Matthew Brower (University of Rochester)
‘Trophy Shots: Early North American Wildlife Photography and the Display of Masculine Prowess’Helena Pycior (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
‘Animals of the White House Go Public: Interpreting the Performances of Twentieth-Century “First Dogs” and “First Cats”’Chair: Charles Bergman (Pacific Lutheran University)
Lunch and Free Topic Poster Session: 1.00-2.00 The AGM of ISAZ will be held between 1.10 and 1.50 in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre.
Session 7: 2.00-3.30
Panel 1
Cristina Grasseni (University of Milan Bicocca)
‘Shaping Views – eye and the cow’Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence (Tufts University)
‘Polar Bears of Churchill: Ecotourism and the Transformation of a Super Predator’Chair: Chris Wilbert (Anglia Polytechnic University)
Panel 2
Karen M. Kostan (University of California, Davis)
‘Historical Overview of Sheep Herding Trials’Sarah Richardson (California State University)
‘Commodity to Companion: Social Constructions of the Racing Greyhound’Chair: Joanna Swabe (Utrecht University)
Coffee: 3.30-4.00 Session 8: 4.00-5.30
David Matless, Paul Merchant, Charles Watkins (University of Nottingham)
‘Cultures of Sport and Science: Otters and Wildfowl in England, 1945-1970’Marguerite Helmers (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
‘The Spectacle of Whooping Crane Migration’Chair: Erica Fudge (Middlesex University)
Closing Remarks: 5.30-6.00
Adrian Franklin (University of Tasmania)
Chairs: Erica Fudge (Middlesex University) and Garry Marvin (University of Surrey Roehampton)
Free Topic Poster Sessions (lunchtime on both days)
Contributors and Topics
Hiroshi Yamada, Ijima Aki, and Masahiro Okamoto (Rakuno Gakuen University)
‘Relaxation Effects of Contact with Sheep and Goats in College Students’
Masahiro Okamoto, Hiroshi Yamada and Ijima Aki (Rakuno Gakuen University)
‘Change of Impression of Sheep and Goats by Contact with Animals in College Students’
Lynette A. Hart and Mary W. Wood (University of California, Davis)
‘A Web Based Gateway to Information on Assistance and Working Dogs’
Aaron S. Moore (Illinois State University)
‘Humane Investigators’ Perspectives on Animal Suffering’
Joanna Swabe, Bart Rutgers and Elspeth Noordhuizen-Stassen (Utrecht University)
‘Cultural Attitudes Towards and Moral Justifications for Killing Animals’
R. Stumm and G-R Riedel
‘Noah’s Ark – an Exhibition Project of the Natural History Museum Erfurt, Germany’
Erika Friedmann (Brooklyn College of CUNY), Sue A. Thomas (University of Maryland), Phyllis K. Stein (Washington University)
‘Exploration of the Relationship between Pet Ownership and Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease’
Any questions can be addressed to
Dr. Garry Marvin at:
g.marvin@roehampton.ac.uk
gmarvn@aol.com
(please use both email addresses)
Tel: 00 44 207 221 6387
Tel: 0044 208 392 317
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Surrey Roehampton
80 Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5SL
UK
| Garry Marvin School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Surrey Roehampton 80 Roehampton Lane London SW15 5SL UK g.marvin@roehampton.ac.uk |
Erica Fudge School of Humanities and Cultural Studies Middlesex University White Hart Lane London N17 8HR UK e.fudge@mdx.ac.uk |
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