Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History
November 7-8, 2019 | Archives of Ontario. The conference program is accessible here:
http://niche-canada.org/tracesoftheanimalpast/ or below.
Professor George Colpitts (University of Calgary) will give the 2019 annual Avie Bennett Historica Canada public lecture in Canadian History on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 7 p.m. The title of his public lecture is “Retail Animalia: Consumers, the Animal Anti-Cruelty Movement, and the Canadian Fur Trade, 1920-1940”. You are invited to join us for dinner in the Schulich Executive Dining Room at 5:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
Thursday, November 7, 2019
George Spragge Classroom, Archives of Ontario, 134 Ian MacDonald Blvd, Toronto, ON
Coffee and Snacks (8:30am-9am)
Session 1: Rethinking Animal History (9am-10:30am)
- Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Looking Backward (and Forward)”
- Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa “Kicking over the Traces? Freeing the Animal from the Archive”
- Margaret Derry, Adjunct Professor, History Department, University of Guelph, and Associated Faculty, Campbell Centre for Animal Welfare, Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph “The Animal Question: Documentation and an Interdisciplinary Search for Information ”
- Susan Nance, University of Guelph “Who is a Greyhound? Reflections on the Nonhuman Digital Archive”
Refreshment break (10:30am-11am)
Session 2: The Stories We Tell About Animals (11am-12:30pm)
- Jay Young, Archives of Ontario “Creatures on Display: Making an Animal Exhibit at the Archives of Ontario”
- Dolly Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway “Portraits of Extinction: Encountering Extinction Narratives in the Natural History Museum
- J. Keri Cronin, Brock University “Hidden in Plain Sight: How Can Art and Visual Culture Help Us Think About Animal Histories?”
Lunch (12:30pm-1:30pm)
Session 3: City Species (1:30pm-3pm)
- Andrew Robichaud, Boston University “Reconstructing the Animal City: Challenges and Discoveries”
- Sean Kheraj, York University “Spatial Analysis and Urban Animal History”
- Lisa Cox, CAV Barker Museum of Canadian Veterinary History “Finding Montreal’s Urban Animals through the Lens of Veterinary Medicine”
Refreshment break (3pm-3:30pm)
Session 4: Science and the Animal (3:30pm-5pm)
- Joanna Dean, Carleton University “Guinea Pig Agnotology”
- Colleen Campbell and Tina Loo, University of British Columbia “The Secret Life of the Bears: Radio-Telemetry Data and Animal History”
- Jody Hodgins, York University “Mediators of Animal Health: Veterinary Science in Rural Southern Ontario, 1871-1933”
Dinner: Schulich Executive Dining Room (5:30pm-7pm)
Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture in Canadian History (7pm-8:30pm)
“Retail Animalia: Consumers, the Animal Anti-Cruelty Movement, and the Canadian Fur Trade, 1920-1940,” George Colpitts, University of Calgary
Friday, November 8, 2019
George Spragge Classroom, Archives of Ontario,134 Ian MacDonald Blvd, Toronto, ON
Coffee and Snacks (8:30am-8:45am)
Session 5: Knowing Animals, Knowing Humans (8:45am-10:15am)
- Jennifer Bonnell, York University “Sweet Predicaments: Writing a Honey Bee History”
- Emily Wakild, Boise State University “What’s a Guanaco? Tracing the Llama Diaspora through and Beyond South America”
- Catherine McNeur, Portland State University “Vanishing Flies: The Panic of 1837, the Lady Entomologist, and the Cecidomyia Culmicola”
- Lindsay Marshall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Hearing History Through Hoofbeats: Exploring Equine Volition and Voice in Historical Narrative”
Refreshment break (10:15am-10:30am)
Session 6: Animal Biographies (10:30am-12pm)
- Zach Syme, York University “Thy Good Friend Bonfire: John McCrae and his Animal Companions”
- Jason Colby, University of Victoria “Tuffy’s Cold War: Science, Dolphins, and the US Navy”
- Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee “The Elephant in the Archive”