You can find a PDF version of the conference programme here.
The conference will take place between 4 and 6 December 2014 in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. A range of international participants will be speaking on a wide range of topics in the history of human-animal relations over these two-and-a-half days.
An indicative programme is listed below. For full details see the PDF of the conference programme, available here.
Thursday 4 December 2014
| 0900-1045 | Registration |
| 1045-1100 | Welcome |
| 1100-1230 | Horses and Riders |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch |
| 1330-1500 | More than the Sum of their Parts? Monsters, Humans, and Animals |
| 1500-1530 | Break |
| 1530-1700 | Feelings |
| 1730-1900 | Plenary Address Harriet Ritvo, MIT: The World as Zoo |
| 1900-2100 | Reception |
Friday 5 December 2014
| 0900-1030 | Simians and Similitude: Apes, Race, and Art |
| 1030-1100 | Break |
| 1100-1230 | Making Peoples and Animals: Breeds, Breeding and Nationhood |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch |
| 1330-1530 | Hunting and the Hunted |
| 1530-1600 | Break |
| 1600-1700 | “Dominion over … every living thing”: Religion and Animals |
| 1730-1900 | Plenary Address Louise Hill Curth, University of Winchester: Animals, Astrology, and Almanacs: Early Modern Veterinary Medicine in the Popular Press |
| 2030-2230 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday 6 December 2014
| 0930-1100 | Creatures “small, scuttling, and slithering” |
| 1100-1130 | Break |
| 1130-1300 | Display and Performance |
| 1300-1330 | Concluding Discussion |
| 1330 | End of Conference |
Between Apes and Angels: Human and Animal in the Early Modern World 