Animals Across Borders: Rethinking More‑than‑Human Geographies

Registration

8:30 - 9:00 AM

• Check in at Room 407 A-C, on the 4th Floor of the International Affairs Building, entrance from 118th St (NOT Amsterdam Ave)
• Coffee & Breakfast will be provided

Keynote

9:00 - 09:45 AM

• Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) "Do Animals Have Personhood? A Historical Approach to Other-Than-Human Subjectivity"

Panel 1

09:45 - 11:15 AM

Colonial Legacies of Multispecies Movement: Accessing Land, Bordering Life, and Ordering Knowledge

• Jia Hui Lee (University of Bayreuth) “Species and Colonialism as Relational Systems: The Case of African Rodent Taxonomy”
• Ailish Lalor (Harvard University) “During the Flood: The Afobaka Dam, Maroon Transmigration, and Operation Gwamba in Suriname, 1964-1971”
• Columba González-Duarte (The New School) “Monarchs, Borders, and Mobility Justice”
• Chair and Discussant : Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

Coffee Break

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Workshop: Thinking with Animals

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

• Charlotte Marlene Hoes (University of Goettingen) “Crating a World: Boxes as Spatial Stratifications of Care in the Global Wildlife Trade”
• Niu Teo (University of Chicago), “American Bacon: The Coverup & The Crime”
• Ran Mei (New York University), "Pork and Power: The Architecture of Meat in Modern China"

• Chair and Discussant: Brad Weiss (William & Mary)

Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Panel 2

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Beyond Containment: Animals, Infection, and the Governance of Life

• Sooah Kwak (University of Pennsylvania) “The Pig Multiple: Biosecurity, Waste, and Leaky Boundaries in Korea’s Leprosy Settlements”
• Thomas White (Kings College London) “Borders, Livestock Disease, and Sovereign Anxieties in Contemporary Mongolia”
• Emma Crowe (New York University, MOTH) “Listening Across Borders: Animal Communication Technologies and the Reconfigurations of Legal Geographies”
• Chair and Discussant: Katy Overstreet (University of Copenhagen)

Coffee Break

3:00 - 3:15 PM

Panel 3

3:15 - 4:45 PM

Transcending Borders: Indigenous Knowledge in Human-Animal Relations

• Marian Leech (University of Pennsylvania) “Earthshapers, Healing Skins, Commodity Currencies: Beaver-Human Relations in Early Modern Europe and North America”
• Carlos Roberto Galaviz (UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico) “Man-Eaters and Messengers: Nocturnal Fauna Among Ancient Nahuas”
• Charlotte Dawson (University of Arizona) "Penned In: Bison, Indigenous People, and Multispecies Subjectivation on the Reservation"
• Chair and Discussant: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania)

Closing Discussion Q&A

4:45 - 5:00 PM

Event venue & nearby stays

Lehman Center for American History, 420 West 118th Street, New York, United States

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