Programme
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A PDF of the printed programme is available to download here. Please note that we will endeavour to add any last-minute changes to the programme below.
Wednesday 11th September
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OPTIONAL TOUR OF THE HUNTERIAN, 16:00-17:00
Kelvin Hall Hunterian Collections
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Thursday 12th September
Panels will be held in:
Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre (LT)
Kelvin Hall Seminar Room 1 (S1)
Kelvin Hall Seminar Room 2 (S2)
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REGISTRATION OPENS 09:00
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Welcome from the Beastly Modernisms Team 09:20
Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre
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PANELS 1: 09:30 - 11:00
1a. Roundtable: Joycean Beasts
Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre (LT)
Chair: Peter Adkins
Flicka Small (University College Cork) - “Microbes, Germs, Bacteria”: Living micro-organisms in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Caroline Elbay (Champlain College) - Throwing Shapes: James Joyce’s Morphing Women
Rory Hutchings (Independent Scholar) - Troubling the boundary: imagining the nonhuman in Ulysses
1c. Surreal Creatures
Seminar Room 2 (S2)
Chair: Rebecca Varley-Winter
Rachel Ashenden (Independent Scholar) - "I was born a female human animal”: Female and Animal Hybridity in Leonora Carrington’s “The Debutante”
Molly Gilroy (University of Edinburgh) - Surrealist Magic: Woman and her Cosmic Cat
Rachael Grew (Loughborough University) - Envying the Beasts: Leonor Fini’s Hybridity
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BREAK 11:00 - 11:30
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PANELS 2: 11:30 - 13:00
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2a. Roundtable: Modernist Empathies: Art and Nonhuman Animals
S1. Chair: Tracy McDonald
Tracy McDonald (McMaster University) - A young gorilla meets the modernists Djuna Barnes, Eugenie Shonnard, and Eli Harvey
Kathryn Eddy (artist) - The Urban Wild Coyote Project: an immersive sound art installation exploring modern myths and ideological coverups
Mandy-Suzanne Wong (author) - Listen, we all bleed: Animal Sounds in Radical Art
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2b. Bugs and Beasties
S2. Chair: Daniel J. Bowman
David Vichnar (Charles University, Prague) - The Insectuous Brothers: Karel ÄŒapek’s and Jan Švankmajer’s Avantgardism(s) and the Limits of Humanism
Rebecca Varley-Winter (University of Cambridge) - Goblin and Commodious Bees in Emily Dickinson and Mina Loy
Julia Ditter (University of Freiburg) - The Animal Worlds of Saki
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2c. Life and Letters
LT. Chair: Carrie Rohman
Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University) - Bears, Beasts and Bulls in Djuna Barnes
Cathryn Setz (University of Oxford) - From the telluric depths: transition’s beastly modernism
Maureen O’Connor (University Cork College) - Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction
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LUNCH: 13:00 - 14:00
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PANELS 3: 14:00 - 15:30
3a. Trauma and Catastrophe
S1. Chair: John C. Hawkins
Mieke Roscher (University of Kassel) - Beastly Modernisms and Anti-modernisms: Breeding Animals in the Third Reich
Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin) - Beckett’s Birds
Lauren Cullen (University of Oxford) - “Flesh and blood and temper”: Subjectivity, Memory, and Trauma in “The Animal Story”
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3b. Creative-Cultural Transitions
S2. Chair: Caitlin Stobie
Cameo Marlatt (University of Glasgow) - Letters for a Newfoundland Dog: A Creative and Zoopoetic Response to Woolf’s Flush and Barrie’s Peter Pan Texts
Amy Cutler (Goldsmiths, University of London) - The Multiple ‘Lives’ of Nature Documentary
Martin Pover (Photographer) - Carceri: Piranesi’s Fanciful Images of Prisons: An investigation into the space of the contemporary zoo
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3c. Roundtable: Excess Images and Images of Excess
LT. Chair: Bryony Randall
Carrie Rohman (Lafayette College) - Most Awful Scratches: Authorizing Animals in D. H. Lawrence
Devon Clifton (Brown University) - “Behind her moving hams”: Revisiting the Sexual Politics of Ulysses
Maria Trejling (Stockholm University) - More Swallows to Follow: Repetitive Animals in H.D.’s Asphodel
BREAK: 15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:30 KEYNOTE:
Derek Ryan (University of Kent) - Beastly Bloomsbury
LT. Chair: Peter Adkins
BEASTLY POETRY AT THE BUTTERFLY AND PIG: 19:30 - 22:00
Venue: The Butterfly and the Pig, 153 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4SQ
We’re excited to present to you a night of beastly poetry: poems about animals, critters, strange strangers, and more-than-human kin. This event is FREE and open to the public. Doors are at 7pm for 7.30 start. There will be seating and a bar at the venue.
Line-up:
Jelle Cauwenberghs
Alexandra Grunberg
Eva Isherwood Wallace
Miranda Cichy
Jane Hartshorn
(Break)
Daisy Lafarge
Callie Gardner
Jane Goldman
Colin Herd
The event will be hosted by Maria Sledmere and Caitlin Stobie, with organising support from Peter Adkins and Saskia McCracken.
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Friday 13th September
10:00 - 11:30 KEYNOTE:
Kari Weil (Wesleyan University) - Modernisms, Magnetisms and the Beastly Burdens of Memory
LT. Chair: Saskia McCracken
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PANELS 4: 11:30 - 13:00
4a. Joyce and Humanimals
LT. Chair: Katherine Ebury
Anushka Sen (Indiana University) - Stray Cats and Transported Cattle: Shades of the Urban in T.S. Eliot and James Joyce
Jonathan McAllister (University of Cambridge) - ‘Height of a tower? No, she can jump me’: The feline presence in Ulysses
Kate O’Donovan (Royal Holloway, University of London) - ‘Lead, kindly fowl! They always did: ask the ages. What bird has done yesterday man may do next year’ (112.9-10): Learning How to be Human in the Medieval Bestiary and Finnegans Wake
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4b. Working Beasts
S1. Chair: Louise Logan
John C. Hawkins (Loyola University Chicago) - Strange and Friendly Beasts: The Politics of Animal Companionship in Sherwood Anderson’s “The Man who Became a Woman” and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jeanne Dubino (Appalachian State University) - Dog Boys and Dog Men: Stray Dogs and the Posthuman
Lauren Benjamin (University of Michigan) - Claude McKay’s Feral Modernism
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4c. Marine Life
S2. Chair: Saskia McCracken
Christy Heflin (Royal Holloway, University of London) - The Authenticities of the Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse
Monika Bregovic (University of Zadar) - “The Fisherman Sunk in Dreams”: Fish and Artistic Imagination in Virginia Woolf’s Work
Rachel Murray (Loughborough University) - Earlier and Other: Marine Life in Modernist Writing
LUNCH: 13:00 - 14:00
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PANELS 5: 14:00 - 15:30
5a. Invasive Species: Waste and Trash Animals
S1. Chair: Mieke Roscher
Caroline Hovanec (University of Tampa) - In Defence of Pigeons
Daniel J. Bowman (University of Sheffield) - Animal Waste: Muckraking in Upton Sinclair
Gabriela Jarzebowska (University of Warsaw / Wesleyan University) - Pest Control as Modernisation: Anti-rat Stalinist Propaganda in Poland
5b. Myth, Allegory and Representation
S2. Chair: Caitlin Stobie
Ariel Kline (Princeton University) - The Minotaur and Modern Empire
Rodolfo Piskorski (Cardiff University) - “Deeper within darkness”: animal reality, poetic representation, and the nested form of Ted Hughes’s “The Thought-Fox”​
Jane Goldman (University of Glasgow) - Can Flush Count?: Virginia Woolf and animality—and/in/by Numbers
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5c. ‘Pan’ Film Screening
LT. Chair: Maria Sledmere
Rosie Roberts (Glasgow School of Art) - Pan: a Cinematic Essay
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BREAK: 15:30 - 16:00
PANELS 6: 16:00 - 17:30
6a. Animal Ethics
LT. Chair: Alexandra Abletshauser
Asiya Bulatova (University of Warsaw) - Experimental Animals in Early-Soviet Literature, Formalist Theory, and Medical Practice
Charlotte O’Neill (University of Sheffield) - Vegetarianism and Modernist Self-Fashioning in the Writings of Edward Carpenter
Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield) - Vivisection in Modernist and Popular Fiction, 1890-1945
6b. Ambivalence and Division
S1. Chair: Rachel Murray
Chris Thornhill (University of Nottingham) - The Bestial Completion of the Human? Kafka's Modernist Messianism
Carol L. Yang (National Chengchi University) - Eliot’s “Monkey Trial” and Anthropomorphism in The Cocktail Party
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6c. Animal Arts
S2. Chair: Greg Thomas
Kirsten Strom (Grand Valley State University) - The Animal Modern Artist
Ina Linge (University of Exeter) - Beastly Butterflies: Sexual Nature in Sexology and Modern Dance
Kristoffer Noheden (Stockholm University) - Excursions in the Night Side of Nature: Minotaurs and Other Surrealist Animals
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CONFERENCE DINNER: 19:00 - LATE
Saramago Café in the Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD