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