Between Apes and Angels: Human and Animal in the Early Modern World

Between Apes and Angels: Human and Animal in the Early Modern World

Veranstalter
Sarah Cockram, University of Glasgow; Andrew Wells, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Stephen Bowd, University of Edinburgh
Veranstaltungsort
School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Ort
Edinburgh
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
04.12.2014 - 06.12.2014
Deadline
26.11.2014
Von
Andrew Wells

Study of the history of human-animal relations in the Renaissance and early modern world has expanded enormously in recent years, and with it has come a focus on questions concerning humanity, animality, society, culture, and nature. This two-and-a-half-day international conference brings together some of the biggest names in historical animal studies and scholars from all career stages.

The conference will examine human-animal relations of all kinds, and creatures as diverse as insects, horses, mules, dogs, cats, cattle, sheep, birds, lions, rats, apes and – of course – humans. Themes of the conference include: philosophy, religion, and intellectual history; human-animal boundaries; attitudes and feelings towards animals; bodies, human and animal; animals and people of the New and Old Worlds; performance and display. The conference also addresses how we attempt to ‘do’ the history of human-animal relations today, asking: Why study human-animal relations? What specific social/cultural/political/intellectual consequences are there to this branch of intellectual inquiry? What are our methodologies? What problems do we encounter? How can/do we overcome them? What can we learn from other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and from the natural sciences and beyond? What insights can research into human-animal relations in the past offer into man’s interaction with the natural world today?

For further details, information on postgraduate bursaries, and registration by 26 November 2014, please visit http://apesandangels.wordpress.com

Supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Society for Renaissance Studies, and the University of Edinburgh. In partnership with Minding Animals International.

Programm


Thursday 4 December

09:00-10:15, McMillan Room
Registration

10:15-10:30, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Welcome

10:30-12:30, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Horses and Riders
Chair: Alison Acton, Independent Scholar (Sociology/Ethnography)

Equine Empathies: Giving Voice to Horses in Early Modern Germany
Pia Cuneo, Art, University of Arizona

The Tale of a Horse: the Levinz Colt 1721-29
Peter Edwards, History, University of Roehampton

The Female Art of Riding: Early Modern Noblewomen on Horseback
Magdalena Bayreuther, History, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

Petticoats and Ponies: Femininity and Female Equestrians in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Monica Mattfeld, English, University of Kent

12:30-13:30, McMillan Room
Lunch

13:30-15:00, Teviot Lecture Theatre
More than the sum of their parts? Monsters, Humans, and Animals
Chair: Pauline Phemister, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

Monstrous Inspirations: Animal/Human Relations and the Rhetoric of Images in Early Modern Natural History Treatises
Frances Gage, Fine Arts, SUNY Buffalo

The Beginnings of Comparative Anatomy and Renaissance Attitudes to Animals
Benjamin Arbel, History, Tel Aviv University

Like Clockwork? The temporality of Cartesian animals
Susan Wiseman, English, University of London, Birkbeck

15:00-15:30, McMillan Room
Break

15:30-17:00, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Feelings
Chair: Emily Brady, GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

The Ottoman Carnival of Animals - Learning about Emotions toward Animals from the Surname Literature (1500-1800)
Ido Ben Ami, History, Tel Aviv University

A cat in a sleeve: wellbeing and companion animals at the Italian Renaissance Court
Sarah Cockram, History, University of Glasgow

Adventures of a Baillie's Dog
Laura Paterson, History, University of Strathclyde

17:30-19:00, Playfair Library
Plenary Address
The World as Zoo
Harriet Ritvo, History, MIT
chaired by Diana Donald, History of Art (Emerita), Manchester Metropolitan University

19:00-21:00, Playfair Library
Reception

Friday 5 December

09:00-10:30, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Simians and Similitude: Apes, Race, and Art
Chair: Andrew Wells, Graduate School of the Humanities (History), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Ars simia naturae: The Animal as Mediator and Alter Ego of the Artist
Simona Cohen, Art History, Tel Aviv University

‘Real monkeys’ and ‘real apes’ in early modern Europe – Approaches and Methodologies
Alan S. Ross, History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Laboring Apes: Race and Class in Eighteenth-Century Writing on Apes
Ingrid Tague, History, University of Denver

10:30-11:00, McMillan Room
Break

11:00-12:30, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Making Peoples and Animals: Breeds, Breeding and Nationhood
Chair: Harriet Ritvo, History, MIT

The creation of the Museum of Agriculture’s livestock portraits at the University of Edinburgh (1832-44): Classification, Breeding, and Nationhood
Fiona Salvesen Murrell, Independent Scholar (History of Art)

Imagining Bestiality: Breeding, Boundaries, and the Making of Humanity
Andrew Wells, Graduate School of the Humanities (History), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Fifty shades of grey and the rise of nations: cattle and identity
László Bartosiewicz, Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

12:30-13:30, McMillan Room
Lunch

13:30-15:00, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Creatures, “small, scuttling, and slithering”
Chair: Neil Pemberton, History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester

The Teeth and Venom of Empire: Animal Protagonists and the European Settlement of Australia.
Krista Maglen, History, Indiana University

Johann Christian Fabricius, insects and the development of 18th century entomology
Dominik Hünniger, Lichtenberg Kolleg (History), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

The Moral Authority of Insects: Insect Lessons for Women in Eighteenth-Century France
Elisabeth Wallmann, History, University of Warwick

15:00-15:30, McMillan Room
Break

15:30-17:30, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Hunting and the Hunted
Chair: Sarah Cockram, History, University of Glasgow

Slaughtered Deer, Lawed Dogs: The fabrication of animals under Forest law, 1450-1520
Tom Johnson, History, University of London, Birkbeck

Venator, Auceps and their Quarry: Perspectives of Identity, Empathy and Respect
Richard Almond, Independent Scholar (History/Art History)

‘To Breed a Familiar League of Friendship, Love and Unity’: An object-based approach toward understanding human-avian relationships in early modern falconry
Emily Aleev-Snow, History of Design, V&A Museum/Royal College of Art

The Rat-Catcher’s Prank: Becoming Cunning and Killing Rats in Early Victorian London
Neil Pemberton, History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester

17:45-19:15, Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Plenary Address
Animals, Astrology and Almanacs: Early Modern Veterinary Medicine in the Popular Press
Louise Hill Curth, Medical History, University of Winchester
chaired by Andrew Gardiner, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh

20:30-22:30, Howie’s Restaurant, Victoria St, Edinburgh
Conference Dinner

Saturday 6 December

09:30-11:00, Teviot Lecture Theatre
“Dominion over ... every living thing”: Religion and Animals
Chair: Stephen Bowd, History, University of Edinburgh

Early modern religious attitudes towards the breeding of mules
William G. Clarence-Smith, History, University of London, SOAS

Soul: The Three Degrees
Miranda Anderson, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

Roaring ‘as gently as any sucking dove’: The Animals of Toleration
Karen L. Edwards, English, University of Exeter

11:00-11:30, McMillan Room
Break

11:30-13:00, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Display and Performance
Chair: Jill Burke, History of Art, University of Edinburgh

The Medici menageries as sites for collecting, display and performance
Angelica Groom, Independent Scholar (Art History)

Performing Meat
Karen Raber, English, University of Mississippi

‘A Disgusting Exhibition of Brutality’: Animals, the Law and the Warwick Lion Fight of 1825
Helen Cowie, History, University of York

13:00-13:30, Teviot Lecture Theatre
Concluding Discussion
Comments by the conference organisers followed by open floor discussion.

13:30
End of Conference

Kontakt

Andrew Wells

GSGG, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

andrew.wells@mail.uni-goettingen.de

http://apesandangels.wordpress.com