sex/gender/species

Sex, Gender, Species

Friday, February 25

12:45 Welcome  (Location:  Russell House)

1-3:30  Between Species

• “Beyond ‘the’ Animal:  The Naturecultural Assemblages of Migrations and Miscegenations”

Banu Subramaniam (UMASS-Amherst) and Karen Cardozo (Mt. Holyoke)

• “Odd Couples:  A Case for Interspecies Empathy and Ethical Relations”

Traci Warkentin (CUNY- Hunter)

• “What’s Love Got to Do With It?  Partiality, Human Interests, and Inter-animal Conflicts”

Karen Emmerman (University of Washington)

Chair:  Lori Gruen

3:30-4  Coffee break

4-6:30 Transnational Animals

• “Feminist Transnationalism and the Question of the Animal”

Sushmita Chatterjee (Augustana College)

• “Consuming Females: Gender, Animals and Development in the Andes”

Maria Elena Garcia (University of Washington)

• “Chickens v. Cattle:  Feminist Geographical Insights on Species Positionality”

Alice Hovorka (University of Guelph)

Chair:  Anu Sharma

6:30-8            Reception for conference participants (Location:  Allbritton 311)

Saturday February 26

9-11:30 Translating Others (Location:  PAC 001)

•“Female Author/ity and the Ethics of ‘Speaking For’”

Emily Clark (UWisconsin – Madison)

•“Bitch, Bitch, Bitch:  Autobiographical Criticism, Feminist Theory and Dog Writing”

Susan McHugh (University of New England)

•“Intersubjective Science:  Ape Language Research and Ethics of Care”

Mary Trachsel  (University of Iowa)

Chair:  Kari Weil

11:30-1:00  Poster sessions/lunch (Location:  Allbritton 311)

1-3:30 Eco-Bodies  (Location:  PAC 001)

•“Ecofeminism Revisited”

Greta Gaard (UWisconsin-River Falls)

•“Black Sexualized Politics of PETA”

Jenny Grubbs (American University)

•“Skin/ned Politics”

Ruth Lipschitz (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Chair:  Gina Ulysse

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

4-6:30 Animal Vulnerabilities

• “Precarious Life, Playful Life: The Ethics of Non-Violence”

Stephanie Jenkins (Penn State)

• “Species Trouble: Judith Butler’s Non-Sovereign Subject and the Human-Animal Divide”

Eric Jonas  (Northwestern)

• “Frames of Life: Judith Butler and the Precarious Question of the Animal”

James K. Stanescu (Mercer University)

• “Intimate Bureaucracies: Roadkill, Policy, and Fieldwork in the Shoulder”

Alexandra Koelle (Stanford)

Chair:  Mary Jane Rubenstein