| 8:00 – 8:50 | Breakfast (McLaughlin Hall) |
| 8:30 – 8:50 | Welcome (McLaughlin Hall) |
| Jaime Denike, Jess Roberts, and Laura McGavin |
| 1 (a). 9:00 – 10:20 | Animal Advocacy (Watson 122) |
| Brian M. Lowe (SUNY College at Oneonta, Sociology) "Spectacular Strategies: Animal Advocacy through the Deployment of Spectacles" |
| Anthony Nocella (Syracuse University, Critical Animal Studies) "Critical Animal Studies" |
| Craig McFarlane (York University, Sociology) "What's So 'Critical' About Critical Animal Studies?" |
| 1 (b). 9:00 – 10:20 | Fictional Animals (Watson 517) |
| Danielle Romanello (Windsor University, English) "The Power of a Gnat: Examining Anne Finch's Fables from an Animal Rights Perspective" |
| Matthew Fellion (Cornell University, English) "Very Like a *****: Animals and Meaning in Tristram Shandy and Moby-Dick" |
| Kimi Hamada (Queen's University, English) "Biting Back: The Politics of Cuteness in the Comics of Chris Ware" |
| 1 (c). 9:00 – 10:20 | Artistic Representations of Animals (Watson 401) |
| Emily Blacker (University of Victoria, English) "Playing With 'She-Beasts': Mitchell's 'Ladies Sasquatch' as Counter-Taxidermy" |
| Mary Slavkin (CUNY, Art History) "Corporeal Snares: Gustave Moreau and the Threat of Feminine and Bestial Degeneration" |
| Katie Mullins (University of Toronto, English) "Seeing Sympathy and Thinking Animals in Morrison and Quitely's WE3" |
| 2. 10:30 – 11:50 | Workshop (Watson 517) |
| Carol Adams (Independent Scholar) "Ethics and Activism: Living With and For Animals" |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch (McLaughlin Hall) |
| 3. 1:00 – 2:20 | Plenary Address (Dunning 14) |
| David Clark (McMaster University, English and Cultural Studies) "Animal Witness, Animal Testament; or, Who was 'the last Kantian in Nazi Germany?'" |
| 4 (a). 2:30 – 3:50 | J. M. Coetzee and Marian Engel (Watson 517) |
| Tania Aguila-Way (University of Ottawa, English) "Beyond the Logic of Solidarity as Sameness: The Critique of Animal Instrumentalization in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Marian Engel's Bear" |
| Paul Barrett (Queen's University, English) "'Animal Tracks in the Margin': Tracing the Absent Referent in Marian Engel's Bear and J. M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals" |
| Carlo Salzani (University of Bonn, Literature) "The Writer as a Bat: Animal Metaphors and the Ecologies of Fiction in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello" |
| 4 (b). 2:30 – 3:50 | Companion Species (Watson 122) |
| David Briggs (University of Alberta, English) "When Good Pets Go Bad: Domesticating Violence in Contemporary Horror" |
| Michelle Neely (University of California, English) "Belonging, To a Slave: Pet-Keeping and Self-Ownership in the Literature of U.S. Slavery" |
| Patricia Life (University of Ottawa, English) "Friendship or Slavery: The Ethics of Commercial Partnerships with Animals" |
| 4 (c). 2:30 – 3:50 | The Politics of Space (Watson 401) |
| Rosemary O'Flaherty (Concordia University, History) "Death by Drowning: The Wild Animals of the St. Lawrence Seaway" |
| Andrea Bolla (University of Guelph, Geography) "The Role of Wildlife in Botswana: An Exploration of Human-Animal Relationships" |
| Miriam Love (University of Western, Theory) "A Beast Caged in the Heart of the City: Figuring Animals and Posthuman Utopias" |
| 5 (a). 4:00 – 5:20 | Roundtable Discussion: "Intersections of Human and Non-Human Animal Rights" (Watson 517) |
| Victoria Haynes (University of Victoria, English) "Whose Forest is This? Exploring the Political Uses of the Mountain Pine Beetle in BC's Ecocrisis" |
| MaryAnne Laurico (Queen's University, English) "'Who Cares if the Children Die of Mercury Poisoning? Stop Killing those Majestic Dolphins': Negotiating the Politics of Dolphin Meat in Louie Psihoyos's The Cove" |
| Kimi Hamada (Queen's University, English) "Fishers of Men: Minority Rights and Environmentalist Discourse in Rob Stewart's Sharkwater" |
| Dale Tracy (Queen's University, English) "The Animal in Human Rights: Rachel Tzvia Back's Buffalo Poems" |
| 5 (b). 4:00 – 5:20 | Vegetarianism (Watson 406) |
| Jessica Carey (McMaster University, English) "Assuming Vegetarianism: A Challenge for Animal Studies" |
| Rasmus Simonsen (University of Western Ontario, English) "Becoming-Vegan: a Queer Ethical Project" |
| Kathryn Gillespie (University of Washington, Geography) "Killing with Kindness? Reconceptualizing 'Humane' Slaughter" |
| 5 (c). 4:00 – 5:20 | Animal Signs and Signification (Watson 122) |
| Sarah Bouttier (Sorbonne University, English) "'[S]omething so much purer than words': D.H. Lawrence's Speaking of and through Animals" |
| Cameron Cross (University of Chicago, Arabic and Persian Literature) "Metaphor, Catalyst, and Brother: Writing Animals in Modern Arabic Literature" |
| Casey McCormick (Georgia St. University, English) "Animals, Androids, Symbiotes, and Semi-Autonomous Guard Units: Exploring Animal Ethics in Cyberpunk" |
| 5 (d). 4:00 – 5:20 | Canadian Ecologies (Watson 401) |
| Maureen Riche (York University, Humanities) "Kimmiq, Kin and Killing: Narrating the Slaughter of Sled Dogs in Canada's North" |
| Heather Love (Indiana University, English) "Singing Grizzlies and Bear Guardians: Wilderness Stewardship and Eco Hegemony in Canada's Mountain National Parks" |
| Kirsten Greer (Queen's University, Geography) "Henry G. Vennor's Our Birds of Prey (1876): A Natural History Museum in 'Miniature' in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada" |
| Michelle Barrett (Carleton University, Politics) "Travelling Third Class: Regulating the Humane Transport in Canada" |
| 7:00 – 10:00 | Just Act Natural Exhibition Reception and Creative Reading
(Studio 22, 320 King St. East) |
| Chris Urquhart (University of British Columbia, Creative Writing) "Skinbound" |
| 8:00 – 8:50 | Breakfast (McLaughlin Hall) |
| 6 (a). 9:00 – 10:20 | Inter-species Boundary Transgression (Watson 122) |
| Ashley Brock (University of California Berkeley, Comparative Literature) "From the mujer pantera to the mujer araña: the Ethics of Transgressing the Limit Between the Human and the Animal in Manuel Puig's The Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
| Payal Taneja (Queen's University, English) "Taming the Brute: The Critique of Domestication in Fables of Modernity" |
| Megan Holmberg (Boston College, English) "In Suspension: The Open in Au Hazard Balthazar" |
| 6 (b). 9:00 – 10:20 | Human and Non-Human Sexuality (Watson 401) |
| Amanda Henrichs (Indiana University, English) "Sexy Beasts and Bestial Sex: The Production of the Human in Donne's 'Metempsychosis'" |
| Carla Hustak (University of Toronto, History) "'The Preposterous and Bestial Fusion of Human and Ape Stock': Risking and Affirming the Human in Early Twentieth Century Sex Reform" |
| Jess Roberts (Queen's University, English) "You are what you eat: Meat and Sexuality in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats" |
| 6 (c). 9:00 – 10:20 | Ethics (Watson 406) |
| Stephen Thierman, (University of Toronto, Philosophy) "The Vulnerability of Other Animals" |
| Angeles Espinaco-Virseda (University of Alberta, History and Classics) "Fixing Identities: Classification, Description and the Production of the Generic Animal" |
| Carla Benzan (University of British Columbia, Art History) "The Life and Death of Carolee's Cats: Intimate Encounters, Gentle Transgressions and Uncalculable Ethics" |
| 7 (a). 10:30 – 11:50 | Workshop (Watson 122) |
| Molly Wallace (Queen's University, English) "What's In a Breed? The Biopolitics of Breed-Specific Legislation" |
| 7 (b). 10:30 – 11:50 | Workshop (Watson 517) |
| Myra Hird (Queen's University, Sociology) "Animal, All Too Animal?" |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch (McLaughlin Hall) |
| 8. 1:00 – 2:20 | Plenary Address (Dunning 14) |
| Carol Adams (Independent Scholar, Texas) "The Sexual Politics of Meat and Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" |
| 9 (a). 2:30 – 3:50 | Gender Studies (Watson 122) |
| Kattie Basnett (Rice University, English) "Rehearsing Domestic Masculinity in Early Dickens: Men, their Animals, and their Women" |
| Adam Weitzenfeld (University of North Texas, Philosophy) "Queering the Breast: De-Naturing the Hu(man) through Breastfeeding Performances" |
| Kathryn Flynn (Queen's University, Cultural Studies) "Flesh on the Plate: Sexual Politics in Vegetarian Popular Culture" |
| 9 (b). 2:30 – 3:50 | Urbanity and Wildlife (Watson 517) |
| Emily Snyder (University of Alberta, Sociology) "The Ugly Animal: Aesthetics, Power, and Animal-Human Relationality" |
| Rosemary-Claire Collard (University of British Columbia, Geography) "The Bio-economic Subjects of Live Wildlife Trade, How to Follow Them, and Why" |
| Joyce Hwang (SUNY Buffalo, Architecture) "Pest Architecture" |
| 9 (c). 2:30 – 3:50 | Animals in Film (Watson 401) |
| Matt Croombs (Carleton University, Cultural Studies) "Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar and the Face of Scepticism" |
| Sarah O'Brien (University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literature) "Undressing the Figural: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep and Sally Mann's Matter Lent" |
| Dru Jeffries (Concordia University, Film) "Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Film: Inside the Cinematic Slaughterhouse of Fast Food Nation" |
| 10 (a). 4:00 – 5:20 | The Role of Affect (Watson 401) |
| Matthew Scribner (Queen's University, English) "Animals, Sympathy, and Chivalry in The Awntyrs off Arthure" |
| Kyle Burchett (University of Kentucky, Philosophy) "Conceptualizing Organisms — An Enactive Approach" |
| Andrew Lee (Queen's University, Sociology) "Mouse Matters: Empathy and Re-Materializing Experimental Animals" |
| 10 (b). 4:00 – 5:20 | Derridean and Psychoanalytic Approaches (Watson 122) |
| Carmen Mathes (University of British Columbia, English) "'Animal Others': Derrida, Levinas and the Animal-On-Trial" |
| Heather Wilson (Stony Brook University, Philosophy) "Human Self-Understanding in Relation to l'Animot: The Role of 'Giving Place' in Derrida's Challenge to Theoretical Discourse" |
| Jeremy De Chavez (Queen's University, English) "Dreaming of Animals: The Animal in Freud's Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year Boy, History of an Infantile Neurosis, and Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" |
| 10 (c). 4:00 – 5:20 | Encountering the Non-Human (Watson 517) |
| Ian Maness (Queen's University, English) "Cats Behaving Monstrously: Animals and Outsiders in the Icelandic Sagas" |
| Gene Tempest (Yale University, History) "Of Men and Horses: Animal Suffering and its Perception During the First World War" |
| Gina Granter (Memorial University, English) "At Home on 'The Edge': Project Grizzly and the Quest for Authenticity" |
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