Animals at Large: CAS Perspectives on Wild, Feral, and Free-Living Animals est coorganisé par la Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies, le Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) le Social Justice Centre à la Concordia University, le Groupe de recherche en éthique animale et environnementale (GRÉEA) et l’Observatoire québécois en droit animalier (OQDA), basé à l’Université de Sherbrooke.

Le colloque se tiendra en mode hybride. Inscrivez-vous ici.

Programme

Jeudi, 6 août

8:30 – 9:00 – Accueil / petit-déjeuner continental (café, thé et jus offerts)

9:00 – 10:15 – Mot de bienvenue et conférence d’ouverture : Catia Faria

10:15 – 10:30 – Pause café / thé

10:30 – 12:00 – Wild Politics 

• Pablo Castello, « The Territorial Rights of Wild Animals: Justification”
• Agata Kowaleska, “Feralizing: Reimagining Future Liberations in Europe”
• Christiane Bailey, “Renouncing violence and doing politics with wild and liminal animals in Donaldson and Kymlicka’s Animals and the right to politics”

12:00 – 13:00 – Repas du midi (traiteur)

13:00 – 14:30 – Wild Horses

• Sabine Sassner, “Movement vs. Behaviour: Visibility and Agency of Equines”
• Lucy Horswill, “From ‘Semi-Wild’ to Surplus: Language and Disposal at British Drift Sales”
• Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor, “Wild Mustang Prison Programs in the American Southwest”

14:30 – 14:45 – Pause café / thé

14:45 – 16:15 – Vermin, Pests, and Invasive Species

• Karen Morin, “An ‘Animal Turn’ for Rats?”
• Mathieu Chaput & Jacinthe Dupuis, “The Communicative Constitution of Liminal Animals in the ‘Deer Saga’”
• Zoei Sutton & Kate Hall, “Feral Catastrophe: Analyzing the Narrative Construction of Australian Cats”

16:15 – 16:30 – Pause café / thé

16:30 – 18:00 – Intersection of Behavioural Ecology and Critical Animal Studies: The Ethical Costs and Benefits of Primate Research in Wild, Free-Ranging, and Rehabilitative Contexts 

• Mikaela Gerwing (animation), Nève Djevalikian-Couture (présentatrice), Italo Ferreira Perreira (présentateur), Maya Moghrabi (présentatrice), Viviane Aurora Oliviera (présentatrice) & Brogan M. Stewart (présentateur)

Vendredi, 7 août

8:30 – 9:00 – Accueil / petit-déjeuner continental (café, thé et jus offerts)

9:00 – 10:30 – Sanctuary and Salvation 

• Darren Chang (à distance, depuis l’Australie), “Contesting Wildness: The Farmed Animal Sanctuary as Liminal Contact Zone”
• Sal Renshaw, “Saving By Any Other Name: Sanctuaries, Arks, and the Governance of Animal Lives in the Anthropocene”
• Stephanie Eccles, “Farmed Animals in Extreme Weather Events: Disaster Response Pathways and Foreclosures of Wildness”

10:30 – 10:45 – Coffee/tea break

10:45 – 12:15 – Animal Capital 

• Esther Palm, “Travail Animal et critique du sauvage en théorie politique”
• Briana Magnuson & Tony Weis, “HPAI in the Wild: A Critical Analysis of Media Coverage of the Panzootic Crisis”
• Branislava Vičar, “The Conservation Discourse of Native Animal Species as Nationalist Narrative: The Case of the Marble Trout”

12:15 – 13:15 – Repas du midi (traiteur)

13:15 – 14:45 – Feral Intimacies: Care and Control in Interspecies Relations

• Misha Solomon, “Goon at Love Park”
• Ishaan Selby, “‘Big, Furry, Asymmetrical Balls’: Wildness, Feral Sex, and Ownership in Marian Engel’s Bear”
• Jesse Arsenault, “The Wildness of Interspecies Desire in South African Literature and Law”

14:45 – 15:00 – Pause café / thé

15:00 – 16:30 – The Wild and the Monstrous

• Emelia Quinn, « When Animals Attack: The Comedy and Camp of Wild Animal Revenge »
• Emily Major, “The Boogeymen of Our Forests: Anti-Possum Rhetoric and the Construction of Fear in Dominant Conservation Messaging in New Zealand”
• Ian Hanesworth, “Wolf Mothers & Man Things: Agency, Emotionality, and Personhood in Ursula LeGuin’s ‘The Wife’s Story’”

16:45 – 18:00 – Conférence de clôture : Stephanie Rutherford, “Canids and Canada: Wolves, Coyotes and Regimes of Violence and Belonging”

18:00 – 19:00 – Réception de clôture

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