Postgraduate Animal Studies Symposium (PASS)

Two day interdisciplinary training & conferencing event showcasing animal studies PGRs 🐝🐏 Organised by @nicole_maceira @ali_ryland @beckmjones🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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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

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@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

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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 🐺🦋🐆🦞

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@LouisePallister @nicole_maceira @ali_ryland @beckmjones Thank you!!

[Mariska Jung @mariska_jung]

Such insightful research, can't wait to see where you take it next @VictoriaMShea !

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@RR_Cotter Thank you so much for being with us and for sharing your research, Ruby!

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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’.

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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

[Dr Ruby Alemu (she/her) @RR_Alemu]

Grateful to have been part of this fascinating event - really struck by the multidisciplinary field of animal studies for the future. #pass2021

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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

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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

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@RaySreyashi Thank you for being present and for sharing your research, Sreyashi - we are so glad you have found it enjoyable and beneficial!

[Dr. Nicole Welk-Joerger @welkjoerger]

Sounds like #PASS2021 is 🔥. Human-animal relations research at its finest!

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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

[Dr Nicole Gosling @NicoleGosling3]

Thanks #PASS2021 for an opportunity to reflect on how I write history!

[Annika Dörner @anndoern]

Enjoyed presenting my research on the global animal trade around 1900 at @PASSymposium today #PASS2021 🦒🐘🐅🐪🐪🐪🐪

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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

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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

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@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

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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

[Herre de Bondt @HerreBondt]

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