A multidisciplinary conference that explores how animals move across, unsettle, and redefine territorial, ecological, and conceptual borders
Registration
8:30 - 9:00 AM
- Checking-in, Coffee & Breakfast
Keynote
9:00 - 09:45 AM
- Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) "Do Animals Have Personhood? A Historical Approach to Other-Than-Human Subjectivity"
Panel 1
09:45 - 11:15 AM
Beyond Containment: Animals, Infection, and the Governance of Life
- Sooah Kwak (University of Pennsylvania) “The Pig Multiple: Biosecurity, Waste, and Leaky Boundaries in Korea’s Leprosy Settlements”
- Thomas White (Kings College London) “Borders, Livestock Disease, and Sovereign Anxieties in Contemporary Mongolia”
- Emma Crowe (New York University, MOTH) “Listening Across Borders: Animal Communication Technologies and the Reconfigurations of Legal Geographies”
- Chair: Mindi Schneider (Brown University)
- Discussant: Ran Mei (New York University)
Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Workshop: Thinking with Animals
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
- Charlotte Marlene Hoes (University of Goettingen) “Crating a World: Boxes as Spatial Stratifications of Care in the Global Wildlife Trade”
- Niu Teo (University of Chicago), “American Bacon: The Coverup & The Crime”
- Chair: Brad Weiss (William & Mary)
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Panel 2
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Colonial Legacies of Multispecies Movement: Accessing Land, Bordering Life, and Ordering Knowledge
- Jia Hui Lee (University of Bayreuth) “Species and Colonialism as Relational Systems: The Case of African Rodent Taxonomy”
- Ailish Lalor (Harvard University) “During the Flood: The Afobaka Dam, Maroon Transmigration, and Operation Gwamba in Suriname, 1964-1971”
- Columba González-Duarte (The New School) “Monarchs, Borders, and Mobility Justice”
- Chair and Discussant : Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Coffee Break
3:00 - 3:15 PM
Panel 3
3:15 - 4:45 PM
Transcending Borders: Indigenous Knowledge in Human-Animal Relations
- Marian Leech (University of Pennsylvania) “Earthshapers, Healing Skins, Commodity Currencies: Beaver-Human Relations in Early Modern Europe and North America”
- Carlos Roberto Galaviz (UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico) “Man-Eaters and Messengers: Nocturnal Fauna Among Ancient Nahuas”
- Charlotte Dawson (University of Arizona) "Penned In: Bison, Indigenous People, and Multispecies Subjectivation on the Reservation"
- Chair and Discussant: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania)
Closing Discussion Q&A
4:45 - 5:00 PM
