Shared Spaces // Animal-Human Interactions across Environments

Workshop organized by Princeton-Mellon Fellow Jennifer Strtak
Date
Mar 28, 2025, 9:00 am5:00 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson A71

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Event Description

PROGRAM:

9:00 - 9:30 INTRODUCTION

Marie Raulier (Universität Basel) & Jennifer Strtak (Princeton University)
 

9:30 - 11:45
REDEFINING HUMAN-ANIMAL RESEARCH: EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGIES AS SHARED SPACES 

9:30 - 10:00
Aïko Cappe (Université Catholique de Louvain) // Can We “Speak For” Without First “Listening To”? An Ethnographic Exploration

10:00 - 10:30
Maria Luchankina (Université de Strasbourg) // Project Cricetus cricetus 

10:30 - 11:00
Vincent Lagarde (Université de Limoges) // The Strained Cohabitation with Wolves in France: Insights from a Multidisciplinary Approach

 

Coffee break


11:30 - 12:30
BEYOND SPECIES: RETHINKING RACE AND EVOLUTION

  • 11:30 - 12:00
    Aurélien Demars (Université Savoie-Mont-Blanc) // Fight for Life or Mutual Aid of the Living: A Questioning of the Foundation of Land Ethic


Lunch break


2:00 - 4:00
HUMAN AND ANIMAL BODIES: BLURRED BOUNDARIES

2:00 - 2:30
Oriane Poret (Université Lyon 2) // The Animal Studio: Multispecies Interactions in 19th-Century Artistic
Practices

2:30 - 3:00
Florian Lutzelberger (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) // The Human Body as a Shared Space: Bodily Enhancement, Posthumanism and the Critique of Capitalism in Mireille Gagné’s Le lièvre d’Amérique (2020)

3:00-3:30
Cristino Pacquing (Yale University) // Montaigne’s “Chevres de Candie”: Boundaries of Animal Healing and Human Medicine 

3:30-4:00
Juliane Werner (Universität Wien) // Shared Spaces of Transgression: Animal-Human Interactions in Contemporary Factory-Farm Fiction


Coffee break


4:30 - 5:00 CONCLUDING WORDS

Marie Raulier (Universität Basel) and Jennifer Strtak (Princeton University)

 

Sponsor
This event is sponsored by the Princeton-Mellon Initiative; Department of French and Italian; Program in European Cultural Studies; Department of Art & Archaeology; School of Architecture; Humanities Council; and the Center for Comparative History.