Program
Venue: Sal Minus, Museum Gustavianum, Akademigatan 3, Uppsala
THURSDAY, APRIL 6th
10.30-11.30 Tour of Museum Gustavianum (places are limited, pre-registration is required)
13.15-13.30 Words of welcome
13.30-15 Session 1
Eliza Steinbock, Department of Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands: Catties and T-selfies. A question of sovereignty
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz, US: The watershed body. Transgressing frontiers in riverine sciences, planning multispecies worlds
15-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 Session 2
Wendy Woodward, English Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa: ‘Miracles of attunement’? Reading dog and human beings-with in southern African narratives
Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Center for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden: Falling in love with a bear girl. Scandinavian literary representations of cross-species sexuality, love, and family formations at the turn of the 21st Century.
19.00- Conference dinner in Hantverksföreningen, Nedre Slottsgatan 6.
FRIDAY, APRIL 7th
9.15-10.45 Session 3
Erica Cudworth, Social Sciences, University of East London, England: For Terraism: excavating multispecies community in a time of extinction
Jacob Bull, Center for Gender Research, Uppsala university, Sweden: A little more than kin a little less than kind: critical potentials of symbiosis for multi-species worlds
10.45-11 Coffee
11-12.30 Session 4
Andrea Petitt, Center for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden: Cowgirls of the Kalahari. Cattle intersecting with relations of power in Botswana
Hyaesin Yoon, Gender Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary: Beyond the erotics of singularity. The biopolitics of intimacy in commercial pet cloning
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Session 5
Pär Segerdahl, Center for Gender Research, Uppsala university, Sweden: Intellectual asceticism and hatred of the human, the animal, and the material
Claire Jean Kim, Political Science School of Social Sciences, UC Irving, US: Murder and Mattering in Harambe’s House (via video-link)
15.00-15.15 Closing words