Event Details

End: December 5, 2014
Contact: andrew.wells@ed.ac.uk
More Info: http://apesandangels.wordpress.com

The conference will examine the theme of human-animal relations and related topics, such as race, sexuality, zoology, natural history, theological and philosophical perspectives (to name but a few), between c.1500 and the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to submit proposals for papers. It is intended that an edited collection of selected papers will be prepared for publication.

Anticipated themes of the conference may include:

• Human-animal relations of all kinds
• Philosophy, religion, and intellectual history
• Consciousness, sentience, language, and the soul
• Bodies, human and animal
• Animals and people of the New and Old Worlds
• Classification
• Breeding and nationhood
• Race
• Exotica and exploration
• Collecting and exhibiting
• Curatorship
• Fairs, freakshows and buffoons

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief biographical note or one-page CV to the organisers: Andrew Wells (andrew.wells@ed.ac.uk) and Sarah Cockram (sarah.cockram@ed.ac.uk) by October 31, 2013.