School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. James A. Serpell, Director
The Influence of Gender on Our Relations with Animals and the Natural World
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Center for the interaction of Animals and
Society School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Dr. James A. Serpell, Director | |
| The Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Relations with Animals and the Natural World | ||
| MEN, WOMEN, AND ANIMALS: The Influence of Gender on Our Relations with Animals and the Natural World |
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Friday, June 4 Saturday, June 5
Friday, June 4
| 08:50 | Welcoming remarks: James Serpell & Andrew Rowan. |
| 09:00 | 1st Plenary: "Women, Men, and Other Animals
in Victorian America" Katherine Grier, University of South Carolina, USA. |
| 10:00 | "Unnecessary Savageries: Hunting, Gender, and Humane Reform in the
Age of Roosevelt" Bernard Unti, American University, USA. |
| 10: 25 | "Sport Hunting and the Concept of Manliness in the Early Conservation
Movement" Marti Kheel, Graduate Theological Union, USA. |
| 10:50 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 11:10 | "Social Insects and Social Animals: Socialization, Education, and
Gender Roles in Twentieth-Century Children's Books About Nature Study"
Monique Bourque, University of Pennsylvania, USA. |
| 11:35 | "The Food Question is the Soul Question: Shaker Vegetarian Writings,
1830-1900" Brandy Bourne, University of North Carolina, USA. |
| 12:00 | "The Meaning of Dogs in the Inner World of Emily Bronte"
Maureen Adams, University of San Francisco, USA. |
| 12:25 | Lunch and ISAZ AGM |
| 13:30 | 2nd Plenary: "Gender and Animal Protection:
Why Are So Many Animal Activists Women?" Harold Herzog, Western Carolina University, USA |
| 14:30 | "Gender, Views of Nature, and Support for Animal Rights"
Corwin Kruse, University of Minnesota, USA |
| 14:55 | "Liberating Human and Nonhuman Animals: Women, Ethical Bodily Regimes
and Animal Rights Activism" Jane Harris, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| 15:20 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 15:40 | "Distancing Ourselves: Gender, Feminism and Animals" Lynda Birke, University of Lancaster, UK |
| 16:05 | "Hinduism and Attitudes toward the Treatment of Animals"
Susanne Abromaitis, Cedar Crest College, USA |
| 16:30 | "Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human Animal Characters
in Magic Realist Fiction" Consuelo Rivera Fuentes, University of Lancaster, UK |
| 16:50-17:30 | Discussion period |
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