A fantastic 2 days - many thanks to all of our presenters, chairs and attendees! The event has truly showcased the wonderful #animalstudies research that is being done by international PGRs. We are honoured to have been a part of #PASS2021
@mariska_jung We totally agree! At the very least it should be blended and any in person components would ideally get some funding behind them to help with travel etc
It is wonderful to see that the conversations from #PASS2021 are still going strong 😀
We sent an email yesterday with a feedback form - let us know what we did well, what we could have done better & if you would like to see another PASS (& in what format) in the future 🐺🦋🐆🦞
Thank you to Chiara Stefanoni, @Luise_Elsaesser and @VictoriaMShea for ending #PASS2021 on an insightful and interesting note with the ‘Historic Human-animal Relationships: Animal Work, Animal Companions and the Development of Contemporary Attitudes’.
Last but not at all least, @VictoriaMShea tells us about research into enslaved people and dogs in Antebellum American South - the historical weaponisation of dogs as ‘biopolitical tools’ of enslavement, and power of companionship between enslaved people and dogs. #PASS2021
Our next speaker, @Luise_Elsaesser tells us about working horses in Britain 1870-1950 - move from horses to machinery at agri. holdings, pits, railways was a complex matter of economics/practicalities - British Railways retired last shunting horse, Charlie, in 1967. #PASS2021
Final panel of @PASSymposium - Historic human-animal relationships - starts with Chiara Stefanoni on the rise of the modern slaughterhouse, its place in the ‘smellscape of the city’, the ‘miasmafication’ of medicine and odour/stench as animal nuisance. TY, Chiara! #PASS2021
Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to our final five-minute thesis session - @mariska_jung@ludotheexplorer Annika Dörner, @hannahimlach Kay McCrann and @RR_Cotter - what a lot of fab research packed into 30 minutes! #PASS2021
Our last 5min thesis comes from @RR_Cotter, who discusses the lack of animal 'voices' in Pope Francis' Laudato Si, despite its environmental messages #PASS2021
Very interesting to have artists in our midst at #PASS2021; @hannahimlach invites close collaborations between animals, art and ecology through sculpture, while @mccrann_k works w/ 'minibeasts', using sensory methods to draw encounters between herself and non-human invertebrates
@mariska_jung And @ludotheexplorer discusses the situated geographies of slaughterhouses & other animal 'units', while @anndoern presents on the colonial trade of animals between Africa, Germany and the world, that took place alongside similar exoticisation of human bodies #PASS2021
Great 5min theses in our #postcolonial section today; @mariska_jung describes how colonial Europe pretends its the bastion of #animalrights while framing animals and non-Europeans as 'the other' #PASS2021
Excellent presentation by Holly and @AniMullan on goats, space and walking as a method! Guess I'll have to start walking while talking into my phone as well