Living with Animals 2: Interconnections
The Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, March 19-21, 2015
Grand Reading Room
March 19, 2015
(Thursday)
Room 108
Registration 08:30-09:00am
Official opening of the conference
Michael T. Benson, President of
Eastern Kentucky University
Robert W. Mitchell, Radhika N.
Makecha, Michał Piotr Pręgowski
Welcome To EKU
09:00-09:10am
Welcome to "Living with Animals
2: Interconnections" conference
09:10-09:20am
Keynote address
Ian J.H. Duncan
Asking the Animals
09:20-10:25am
coffee break
10:25-10:45am
Living with Horses
Concurrent sessions
coffee break
Living with Elephants
chair: Angela Hofstetter
Angela Hofstetter
Introduction to Living with Horses
chair: Radhika N. Makecha
10:45-10:50am
Gala Argent
“Babysitters” and
“Schoolmasters”: The
Interpersonal, Intersocial and
Intercultural Implications in
Learning to Ride and Be Ridden
10:50-11:10am
Catherine Doyle
Keeper-Elephant Relationships: A
Discussion of Patterns found in
Keeper Perception of the HumanElephant Relationship, and the
Potential for Disconnect.
Gwyneth Talley
Of Stallions and Men: Moroccan
Masculinity in Traditional
Horseback-riding
11:10-11:30am
Preston Foerder
What Do Elephants Know and When
Do They Know It?
Fabienne Meiers
The Urban Horse: Equestrian
Traffic and Horse Husbandry in
Late Medieval Cities
11:30-11:50am
Ratna Ghosal, Andre Ganswindt,
Polani B. Seshagiri & Raman
Sukumar
lunch
11:50am-1:10pm
lunch
Living with Horses (continued)
Concurrent sessions
Emotions
chair: Angela Hofstetter
Hannah M. Biggs
Jopi Nyman
Sarah Tsiang
Endocrine and Behavioural
Correlates of Musth in Male Asian
Elephants (Elephas maximus)
Horse Books for Kids: World War
II Adolescent Fiction, Film, and
Television
Rereading Sentimentalism in
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty:
Affect, Performativity, and Hybrid
Spaces
Breeds for Needs: Type and
Breed Names as a Reflection of
the Horse-Human Relationship
chair: Linda Newhart
01:10-01:30pm
Theo Verheggen
Embodied Cognition and Affect
Attunement in Anthrozoological
Research
01:30-01:50pm
Michele Merritt
Depressed Dogs, Heartbroken
Humans, and a New Philosophy of
Emotions
01:50-02:10pm
Melissa Burns-Cusato, Brian
Cusato, & Amanda Glueck
coffee break
02:10-02:30pm
Living with Horses (continued)
Concurrent sessions
Threats from the Past: Barbados
Green Monkeys Retain Fear of
Ancestral Predators for over 350
Years
coffee break
Living with Dogs
chair: Angela Hofstetter
chair: Michał Piotr Pręgowski
Keri Cronin
“Mendacious Representations?”:
The Camera as Witness in the
Battle Over the Live Export of
Horses in Early 20th Century
England
02:30-02:50pm
Helena Pycior
Jessica Dallow
A “Galaxy of Distinguished
Horses”: Schreiber & Sons and the
Emergence of Equine Portrait
Photography
02:50-03:10pm
Michał Piotr Pręgowski
Dog Training as Taming, Dogs as
Wild Beasts: Whispering versus
Canine Science
Angela Hofstetter
Reel/Real Horses: Animals, Visual
Pleasure, and Narrative Cinema
03:10-03:30pm
Scott Hurley
The Dog Fancy: A Site for the
Intersection of Ableist, Healthist,
and Speciesist Ideologies
03:10-03:50pm
Erica Feuerbacher & Clive Wynne
Collective Memory of the “First
Dogs”: Privilege and Power of the
“First Families” of the United States
Most Dogs Prefer Food…But
Sometimes They Don’t: Effects of
Familiarity, Context, and Schedule
on Dogs’ Preference for Food or
Petting
Arts Walk—See the Art, Meet the Artist!
John Hockensmith, Julia Schlosser,
Peter Sherman
03:30-05:00pm
Social event
Optional (pre-paid) trip to Berea
with dinner
05:00-09:00pm
Living with Animals 2: Interconnections
The Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, March 19-21, 2015
Grand Reading Room
March 20, 2015 (Friday)
Room 108
Registration 08:30-09:00am
Keynote address
Walking the Dog: An Exploration
of Recent Lens-Based Images of
Companion Animals
Julia Schlosser
09:00-10:05am
coffee break
10:05-10:30am
coffee break
Teaching with Animals I
Concurrent sessions
Teaching with Animals II
chair: Mary Trachsel
Mary Trachsel
Jeannette Vaught
Ellen Furlong & Jack Furlong
chair: Stephanie McSpirit
Ecological Consciousness Raising:
Animal Studies in the
Anthropocene
10:30-10:50am
Joseph Tuminello
Animal Infiltrations: Teaching
Animal Studies in Traditional
Courses
10:50-11:10am
Elizabeth A. Lorenzen
Melding Justice and Science: An
Interdisciplinary Course, “Ape
Sapiens: Wild Minds and Captive
Dignity”
11:10-11:30am
Susan Rustick
lunch (pick up boxes outside Room 108)
Teaching with Foer's Eating Animals
Let's Strike While the Iron is Hot!
Using the Cause of Equine Welfare
as a Vehicle for Teaching
Information Literacy
Transforming Human Identity:
Encounters in the Classroom
through Animal Eyes
lunch (pick up boxes outside Room 108)
11:40am-12:00
Panel
12:00-01:30pm
Robert W. Mitchell, Anne Perkins,
& Erica Feuerbacher
coffee break
Developing the Animal
Studies/Anthrozoology Curriculum
coffee break
Short Movie “Animal Blessings” and discussion with filmmaker
Animal Blessings: Rituals of
Appreciation as Pathways to
Ecological Reconnection
Claudia Medina
01:50-02:30pm
coffee break
02:30-03:00pm
coffee break
Animals in Ecological Cultures
Concurrent sessions
Animal Agency
chair: Ed Frederickson
chair: Amy Nelson
Benjamin Z. Freed
Pleistocene Humans and Canids:
A View from Studies of Primate
Polyspecific Associations
03:00-03:20pm
Jeanne Dubino
Listening to the Dogs: Orhan Pamuk
and the Mongrelization of Fiction
Robert Michael Morrissey
Tall-Grass Ethnohistory: Indians,
Europeans, and Other Animals in
the Prairie Borderlands
03:20-03:40pm
Laura Keith
Creatures of Warfare: The Use,
Misuse and Agency of World War I
Animals
Potential Applications for
Targeted Grazing to Enhance
Ecosystem Services and Rural
Economies in Eastern Kentucky
03:40-04:00pm
Amy Nelson
Canine Agency in the Soviet Manned
Spaceflight Program
Ed Fredrickson, An Peischel, Greg
Brann & Rick Griebenow
coffee break
04:00-04:20pm
coffee break
Imagining Alternatives
Concurrent sessions
Animal Agency (continued)
chair: Brett Mizelle
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
“Every Polar Bear Alive”:
Representing Animals in the Sixth
Extinction
chair: Sara Tsiang
04:20-04:40pm
Magdalen J. Walton
Killer Whales or Whale Killers? A
Routine Activities Analysis
Introducing Agency Among Orca
Whales during the Capture of Orca
Calves
Ziba Rashidian
Brett Mizelle
Epistemological Artifacts, or
Death and the Specimen:
Nabokov’s Butterflies, for
Example
04:40-05:00pm
Mary Griffith’s Odd Future: Real
and Imagined Human-Animal
Relationships in Antebellum
America
05:00-05:20pm
“The Tiniest Glance”: Narrative,
Wildlife, and the Recognition of
Intimacy
Linda J. Sumption
Social event
Official Conference Dinner at
Masala Indian Restaurant
06:00-09:00pm
Living with Animals 2: Interconnections
The Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, March 19-21, 2015
Grand Reading Room
March 21, 2015
(Saturday)
Room 108
Registration 08:30-09:00am
Keynote address
The Human Animal Bond and
Further Professionalizing of
Human-Animal Interventions:
Theories, Results and Challenges
Marie-José Enders-Slegers
09:00-10:05am
coffee break
10:05-10:30am
coffee break
Communication and Connection
Concurrent sessions
Making Decisions for Animals
chair: Sara Waller
chair: Matthew Pianalto
Jane Desmond & Maria Lux
Thinking “Big”: Collaborative
Processes between Artists and
Scholars for Public Art Production
10:30-10:50am
Miranda K. Workman
Martha Robinson
Avian Encounters: Connecting
with Bird Lives through Live
Streaming and Contemporary Art
10:50-11:10am
Hazuki Kajiwara
American Pet Cemetery
Gravestone Image Pairings: A
Visual Strategy for Exploring
Interspecies Relationships
11:10-11:30am
Debra A. Vey Voda-Hamilton
Linda Brant
Sara Waller, Christopher Kloth, &
Cats Talk Back: Feral & Socialized
Mariana Olsen
buffet lunch (Crabbe Library, 3rd floor)
Euthanasia Decisions in the
Sheltering Industry - A Critical
Inquiry
Strong Bonds, Ambiguous Futures:
Responses to the Fukushima Nuclear
Disaster in Japan
When People are in Conflict about
Animals
11:30-11:50am
buffet lunch (Crabbe Library, 3rd floor)
Poster session: 3rd floor of the Crabbe Library
Linda Brant
Mourning the Unknown and
Honoring the Unmourned
Autumn Costelle, Eliza Fahringer,
Hunter Kinney, Kaitlyn Gilpin, &
Morgan Melhuish
Expanding Horizons: The Goals
and Achievements of EKU’s
Animal Studies Club
Elena Cox
Lead Poisoning in Raptors:
Impacts of Game Hunting with
Lead Ammunition
Verda A. Davis
Moral Reasoning in Dogs
Tabitha Foster
Trap-Neuter-Return of Cats Has
Positive Impact on EKU’s Campus
Ashley Hammond
Opt to Adopt: Lexington Humane
Society
Tia G. B. Hansen, Mai Andreasen,
Åsa H. Jansson, & Runa E. Gjellan
Jessica Kraut, Stephanie
AuBuchon, Connor Hughes, & Ellen
Furlong
The Need for Anthrozoology in
Veterinary Technology Curricula
Guadalupe Delgado, Victor Pataky,
Dangerous Liaisons: HumanRichard Ford, Brian Cusato, &
Monkey Interactions at a Wildlife
Melissa Burns-Cusato
Reserve
Kate Ford & Ellen Furlong
Elena Iokimanskaya (Елена
Иокиманская)
Belief in Profit Animal Mind
Predicts Attitude to Profit Animal
Welfare
11:50-01:50pm
A Brief Overview of the Stray Animal
Problem in Russia
Self-Control in Dogs
Radhika N. Makecha
Paper Mache Giraffes and Puzzle
Box Feeders, These are a Few of my
Favorite Things: Teaching Animal
Enrichment Using Traditional and
Applied Avenues
H. Lyn White Miles & Ross van der
Harst
The Art, The Artist: The Orangutan
Chantek’s Paintings and Found Art
Assemblages
Pegah Naghib
KiriLi N. Stauch, Stephanie
AuBuchon, & Ellen Furlong
Brenden Wall, Anthony Bohner,
Jeffrey Toraason, & Ellen Furlong
Lucinda Woodward
Miranda K. Workman & Christy L.
Hoffman
Effect of Music on Horses
Domestic Dogs’ Understanding of
Intentional and Goal-Oriented
Action
Good Dog! APPlications of Dog
Science
Research and Development of the
Pet Attribute Work Sheet
(PAWS—for Dogs)
An Evaluation of the Role the
Internet Site Petfinder Plays in Cat
Adoptions
Animals in Ecological Cultures
Animal Agency
Concurrent sessions
chair: Elan Abrell
chair: Tia Hansen
Elan Abrell
Captive Freedom: Multispecies
Ethics in US Animal Sanctuaries
Jessica Austin
Moral Stress, Meaning-Making,
and Mourning: How Shelter
Employees Process Euthanasia
Jennifer Blevins Sinski
“A Cat-sized Hole in My Heart”:
Public Perceptions of the
Companion Animal Adoption
Process
Chalotte Glintborg & Tia G. B.
Hansen
Importance of a Dog for Recovery
after Acquired Brain Injury: Two
Case Stories
02:10-02:30pm
Martha Sherrill
Animal Assisted Therapy for Adults
with Communication Disorders: An
Ethnographic Approach to
Therapeutic Human/Animal
Interactions
02:30-02:50pm
Gillian Squirrell
Working Dogs Working Lives: CostEffectively Frustrating Human and
Animal Disposability
01:50-2:10pm
coffee break
02:50-03:10pm
coffee break
Animal-Human Comparisons and Identities
Concurrent sessions
Valuing and Using Animals
chair: Joshua Abram Kercsmar
chair: Radhika N. Makecha
Managing Livestock and Slaves in
Barbados, ca. 1650–1816
03:10-03:30pm
Bob Sandmeyer
Reiko Ohnuma
Animal Doubles of the Buddha
03:30-03:50pm
Erin McKenna
Keridiana Chez
Canine Connections in George
Eliot’s Adam Bede and
Middlemarch
03:50-04:10pm
Radhika N. Makecha, Kathleen M.
Dudzinski, Stan A. Kuczaj II, Otto
Fad, & John Anderson
04:10-04:30pm
Jonathan L. Clark
Joshua Abram Kercsmar
Arts Walk—See the Art, Meet the Artist! (part 2)
John Hockensmith, Julia Schlosser,
Peter Sherman
04:10-5:30pm
Official conference farewell
05:30pm
Social event
Optional trip to White Hall State
Historic Site (pay on site)
05:45-07:30pm
Living with Animals 2: Interconnections
The Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, March 19-21, 2015
March 22, 2015
(Sunday)
Social event
Optional (Pre-paid) trip to Kentucky
Horse Park in Lexington
ca. 08:00am-01:00pm
The Value of a Varmint
Loving Pets Means Caring for
Livestock
Animals in Captive Settings: What
Can We Learn From Them?
Uncharismatic Invasives