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The Animal and the Archive: Revisiting Human-Other Animal Relations in Cultural history

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Dates:27 March 2015
Times:09:30 - 18:30
What is it:Workshop
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
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Who is it for:Adults, Alumni, Current University students, University staff
Speaker:Pratik Chakrabarti , Peter Yeandle, Elle Larsson, Alexander Scott, Julia Courtney, Andrew Flack , Helen Cowie, Karen Sayer, James Hall, David and Cassie Mayer
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"Everywhere animals disappear. In zoos they constitute the living monument to their own disappearance" Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals’ (1977), p. 26.

9.30 – registration (coffee and teas) 10.00 Welcome. 10.15-11:00: Exhibition and tour

11.00-12.30: Panel I • Andrew Flack (Bristol), ‘Bodies, Blood, and Biodiversity: Conservation and Colonialism at Bristol Zoo Gardens’. • Helen Cowie (York), ‘Elephants in the High Street: travelling menageries in nineteenth-Century Britain’. • Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity), ‘The Appreciation of the Farm Animal’.

Lunch provided

1.30-2.30: Keynote: • Pratik Chakrabarti (Kent), ‘The animal turn in the cultural history of empire’

2.45-4.15: Panel II • Elle Larsson (RHUL), ‘“I’ll take a tiger to go, Sir”: Charles Jamrach’s exotic menagerie and the Victorian Metropolis’. • Alexander Scott (Lancaster), ‘Missing Links and Nondescripts: a cultural history of Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Victorian Liverpool’. • Julia Courtney (Independent), ‘“Would you like to sin on a tiger skin…..?” Domesticating the exotic animal’.

Brews and snacks

4.45-6.15: Panel III • Pete Yeandle (Manchester), ‘The Elephant in the Archive: authenticity and artifice in animal displays at Belle Vue’. • James Hall (Cambridge), ‘Dancing serpents: orientalism and representations of snake-charmers in nineteenth-century Britain’ • David Mayer (Manchester) and Cassie Mayer (Independent), “No animals were harmed in the making of this …”

6.15: Closing remarks.

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Pratik Chakrabarti

Peter Yeandle

Elle Larsson

Alexander Scott

Julia Courtney

Andrew Flack

Helen Cowie

Karen Sayer

James Hall

David and Cassie Mayer

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