Fallen Animals: An interdisciplinary perspective (Aberdeen, 19-20 March 2015)

FALLEN ANIMALS WORKSHOP
University of Aberdeen, 19^th and 20^th March 2015
 
Thursday 19^th March, University Office Court Room
 
9.30-10.15 Registration, tea and coffee
10.15 Official welcome
10.30-12.00 Panel I: Politics of Human/Animal Relations I

• Chair: Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
• Lena Tiemeyer, University of Aberdeen, ‘Jonah and the Fish: the monstrofication of God's servant in Jewish and Christian reception history’
• Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College, ‘The ambivalent legacy of biblical bears in literature and art: from ursus diabolus to ursus ex machina’
• Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, ‘“To see what he would name them”: naming, dominion and domination’
   

12.00-12.15 Tea and coffee
12.15-13.15 Panel II: Poetic Falls in Antiquity

• Chair: Lena Tiemeyer
• Robert Segal, University of Aberdeen, ‘The snake in the Garden of Eden: the blurry line among animals, humans, and gods’
• Sam Newington, University of Aberdeen, ‘Animal utopia and monstrous fall’
   

13.15-14.30 Lunch
14.45-15.45 Panel III: Creation Myths

• Chair: Tim Baker
• Sophie Ballard, University of Aberdeen, ‘“My love, my dove, my perfect one”: locating animal welfare in the Song of Songs’
• Kirsty Stewart, Oxford University, ‘“Who has the most faults?”: animal sinners in a Late Byzantine poem’
   

15.45-16.00 Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00 Panel IV: Early/Modern Literary Falls

• Chair: Áine Larkin
• Rachel Stenner, University of Bristol, ‘Beyond the cat: the populous creaturely landscape of William Baldwin's prose narrative’
• Kevin Binfield, Murray State University, ‘Animals, their falls, and their roles in English labouring-class poetry’
   

17.00-17.30 Marco Iuffrida, Vatican Museums, with pianist Marta Eramo, ‘Piano music and “Romantic” fallen animals’
Chair: Áine Larkin
 
17.30-18.00 Wine Reception, followed by conference dinner at Kilau, High Street, Old Aberdeen

Friday, 20^th March, University Office Court Room
9.00-9.30 Tea and coffee
9.30-10.45 Keynote address: Laura McMahon, University of Cambridge, ‘Animal Life and Cinematic Time’
Chair: Áine Larkin
10.45-11.00 Tea and coffee
 
11.00-12.00 Panel V: Politics of Human/Animal Relations II

• Chair: Sam Newington
• Tim Baker, University of Aberdeen, ‘Sovereign beasts: Adam Roberts’s Bête and the nature of suffering’
• Marco Iuffrida, Vatican Museums, ‘The early medieval safekeeping of “fallen” dogs’
   

12.00-12.15 Tea and coffee
12.15-13.15 Panel VI: Human/Animal Transformations

• Chair: Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
• Kate Walters, independent artist, ‘(We fall into their flesh…)’
• Constantin Canavas, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, ‘Do apes know about their origin?: narratives of animals emerging during fall in an Islamic context’
   

13.30 Lunch at the Bishop’s Table, University of Aberdeen, and closing remarks