Friday October 18
4:00 pm | Welcome in Kyle Morrow Room |
4:10 pm | The first panel—Envisioning
Blueprints for Breeding: How Illustration Helped Establish Breeds of Domesticated Animals Rendering Bodies in Interwar Abattoir Photography and Film Leviathan: Post-Human Vision and Contemporary Video Art |
5:45 pm | The first keynote address “Posthumanism, the Anthropocene, and Ars Animalium” Dr. Cary Wolfe, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University |
7:30 pm | Welcome reception in the courtyard of the Humanities Building |
Saturday October 19
9:00 am | Coffee and breakfast in Kyle Morrow Room |
9:30 am | The second panel—Exoticising
A Plaster Pachyderm, Symbol of an Empire? The Many Lives of the Bastille Elephant, 1808–1846 The Domesticated Exotic: The Flexible Image of Turkeys in Flemish and Netherlandish Art, 1500–1700 Conchological Turn in the Study of the Kunstkammer Paintings by Frans Francken II |
11:15 am | Coffee break |
11:30 am | The third panel—Imaging
Portraits of Power: Zoomorphic Significance in the Yongzheng Emperor’s Portraits A Bug’s Printed Life: Vanitas Themes in the Insect and Animal Illustrations of Maria Sibylla Merian An Animal Studies Perspectives on Rosa Bonheur’s Fauverie |
1:00 pm | Lunch break |
2:00 pm | The fourth panel—Hybridizing
Re-visiting Ruth Asawa: From Womb to Coral, or, Evolution in Reverse Étrange parenté: Maja Smrekar’s Hybrid Family Medusa(e): Seeing Beauty and Alterity in Mythological Monster and Gelatinous Invertebrate |
3:30 pm | Break |
3:45 pm | The second keynote address “What it is like to be what you are not. Animality Human and Non-Human in the Art of Rosemarie Trockel” Dr. Brigid Doherty, Associate Professor in the Departments of German and Art and Archaeology at Princeton University |
5:30 pm | Closing reception in the courtyard of the Humanities Building |
Download PDF version of Ars Animalium Conference Program Oct 18-19