Foster auditorium, Pattee Library
THURSDAY, APRIL 30
WELCOME
PANEL #1: Scientific Models in Comparative Perspective
Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University
Animals, Anatomy, and the Scientific Revolution
Paula Lee, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
The Bete Noire: Early Modern Hunting Dictionaries and the Definition of “Real” Animals
Jeff Loveland, University of Cincinnati
Animals in Encyclopedias in the Long Eighteenth Century
Kathleen Kete, Trinity College
Modern Euro-American Attitudes Towards Animals in a Global Context: Some Perspectives
PANEL #2: Art, Science, and Commerce
Chi-ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania
Trivial Things: Dogs, Porcelain and Chinese Export Art
Joan Landes, Pennsylvania State University
“Animal Bodies in Eighteenth Century Art and Science”
Ian Miller, Harvard University
Japan’s “Panda Boom”: Post-Imperial Conservationism and the Commercialization of Nature
Alissa Walls Mazow, Pennsylvania State University
‘Floating Fast like a Hummingbird’
PANEL #3: The Domestic and the Wild
Harriet Ritvo, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wild at Heart
Dirk Klopper, University of Stellenbosch
From wilderness to farmland: changing conceptions of nature in South African travel writing and narrative fiction of the nineteenth century
Dean Bavington, Nipissing University and Sajay Samuel,
Penn State University
The Resurrection of Cod: From wild species to industrialized biomass
VISITING ARTIST TALK: MARK DION
“Finding Animals”, Exhibition Opening Reception, Zoller Art Gallery (TENTATIVE)
FRIDAY, MAY 1
PANEL #4: Animal Life and National Bodies
Ron Broglio, Georgia Tech University
On Vulnerability: Studies from life that ought not to be copied
Martha Chaiklin, University of Pittsburgh
Aviculture as a Nationalistic Pursuit in Nineteenth Century Japan
Susan Squier, Penn State University
Hybridity
PANEL #5: Redrawing Borders: New Models of Animal Consciousness and Behavior
Richard Doyle, Pennsylvania State University
Finding Animals with Plants: Sustainable Attention Attractors and Noöspheric Intelligence
Hugh Raffles, The New School University
The Sound of Global Warming
Louise Green, University of Stellenbosch
Approximate relations: Ape paintings and the language of animals
Barbara Stafford, University of Chicago
Bits of Behavior /Concepts prior to Words: The Emotional Intuition of Form
PANEL #6: Capture and Colonization: The Geography of Control
Paul Youngquist, Penn State University
Cujo’s Brood
Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Taxidermy and Taxonomy
Beth Tobin, Arizona State University
Collecting Pacific Seashells: Cook’s Voyages, Specimen Dealers, and Natural History Collectors
Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State University
The Year of the Dog – Animals and the Boundary of the Human in South Africa
PANEL #7: Engaging with Animal Subjects: Ethical and Ecological Concerns
Matthew Calarco, California State University, Fullerton
Of Meat and Miracles: Rethinking the Grounds of Animal Ethics and Politics
Cary Wolfe, Rice University
Animals Before the Law
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin- Madison
The New Green Wave: Media Landscapes of Animal-Human Relations
Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
When Species Meet: Ethical Attachment Sites for Out-of-Place
Conference Sponsors:
Visualizing Animals Group,
Institute for the Arts and Humanities,
Committee on Early Modern Studies,
Rock Ethics Institute,
University Libraries,
UPAC (University Park Allocation Committee),
John M. Anderson Endowment, School of Visual Arts,
Departments of Art History; Comparative Literature; French, German; History; Philosophy; Science, Technology and Society; Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; and Women’s Studies.