Program

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 Laura Grotjan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Rendering Bodies in Interwar Abattoir Photography and Film Corey Ratch, Columbia University Leviathan: Post-Human Vision and Contemporary Video Art Eli S. Zadeh, The State University of New York, Stony Brook
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 Taylor Van Doorne, University of California, Santa Barbara The Domesticated Exotic: The Flexible Image of Turkeys in Flemish and Netherlandish Art, 1500–1700 Chelsea Dacus, Rice University Conchological Turn in the Study of the Kunstkammer Paintings by Frans Francken II Leeseul Kwon, Seoul National University
11:15 am	Coffee break
11:30 am	The third panel—Imaging Portraits of Power: Zoomorphic Significance in the Yongzheng Emperor’s Portraits Holly Chen, Washington University in St. Louis (graduated in Spring, 2019) A Bug’s Printed Life: Vanitas Themes in the Insect and Animal Illustrations of Maria Sibylla Merian Courtney Kezlarian, Indiana University Bloomington An Animal Studies Perspectives on Rosa Bonheur’s Fauverie Anna Orton-Hatzis, The City University of New York
1:00 pm	Lunch break
2:00 pm	The fourth panel—Hybridizing Re-visiting Ruth Asawa: From Womb to Coral, or, Evolution in Reverse Amelia Ames, Princeton University Étrange parenté: Maja Smrekar’s Hybrid Family Deirdre M. Smith, The University of Texas at Austin Medusa(e): Seeing Beauty and Alterity in Mythological Monster and Gelatinous Invertebrate Emily Kamen, Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art
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

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