CfP: 'Animal Histories' - Animal History Group Summer Conference 28/29 June 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS – Animal History Group Summer Conference
King’s College London
28-29 June 2018
‘Animal Histories’
Keynote speaker: Dolly Jørgensen
We are delighted to announce
that, following the success of our inaugural summer workshop in 2017,
the Animal History Group will be holding a two-day conference in London
this June. This event will conclude the 2017–18
programme of events organised by the
Animal History Group, the London-based network for postgraduates,
academics, museum workers and other professionals whose work engages
with animals in history. We are honored to welcome
Dolly Jørgensen, Professor of History at the University of
Stavanger, Norway, as our keynote speaker. Dolly is a historian of the
environment and technology, whose research topics have ranged from
medieval butchery to ecological restoration in modern Scandinavia.
We welcome papers from across the field, with no
limitations on their theme or period, exploring any aspect of
human-animal relationships, whether concerning companion animals,
livestock, wild animals, animal health and disease, or animal
afterlives as museum specimens or
artefacts. Papers from graduate students are
encouraged. Speakers will be convened into panels of related papers by
the conference organisers. Please aim for a 15-minute presentation and a
shared session for questions at the end of
each panel. There will be a drinks reception and dinner on the evening
of 28th June.
Paper proposals should be submitted to
animalhistorygroup@gmail.com. Please include a title, an abstract (250 words) and a speaker biography (up to 100 words).
There is no registration
fee for speakers at this workshop. We will reimburse speakers costs of
up to £100 (to be claimed after the workshop, with original
receipts) towards travel and one night's accommodation.
The deadline for submissions is 31st March 2018.
Co-Convenors of the Animal History Group
Administrator, AHRC Project Pets and Family Life in England and Wales , 1837-1939