Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium (ShARC) and the School of English Research Seminar present
Wednesday 20th May, 4.30pm
HRI Seminar Room
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium (ShARC) and the School of English Research Seminar present
David Herman (Literature, Durham University)
Storytelling beyond the Human: Modelling Animal Experiences in Narrative Worlds
Wednesday, 6th May, 4.30-5.30pm
Richard Roberts Building, A87
This presentation argues that previous research in narratology and stylistics has not investigated fully enough questions raised by the use of methods of thought presentation to model the experiential worlds of nonhuman animals. Outlining an expanded and diversified conception of the mind-narrative nexus, I link the narrative projection of nonhuman subjectivity with Uexküll’s idea of the Umwelt, an animal’s lived or phenomenal world. In this way, I suggest how stories can be used to explore potential heterogeneities–but also potential areas of commonality–in the structure of experience across the species boundary. Focusing on writers ranging from Jack London, Daphne du Maurier, and William Horwood to J. A. Baker and Esther Woolfson, I examine a variety of methods for presenting animals’ experiences, and also consider issues arising from the way those methods straddle the fiction/nonfiction divide.
David Herman, Professor of the Engaged Humanities at Durham University, is currently working to bring ideas from narrative studies into dialogue with scholarship on animals and human-animal relationships.
Sheffield Animal Research Colloquium (ShARC) presents
Naomi Sykes
Human-Animal Studies in Archaeology:
Views from the Past, Perspectives from the Present
Wednesday 29th April
5.15-6.30pm
Richard Roberts Building, B79
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium and the Medieval and Ancient Research Seminar present
Megan Cavell (Durham University)
“The Habits and Habitats of Old English Riddle-Animals”
This talk will discuss poetic depictions of the cuckoo, ox and porcupine in the Old English and Anglo-Latin riddle tradition. In analysing representations of these enigmatic animals, I will attempt to tease out Anglo-Saxon attitudes to non-humans that go above and beyond inherited tradition and anthropomorphisation.
Humanities Research Institute (HRI)
Weds. 15th April, 5.30-6.30pm
with refreshments from 5pm
Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium presents
“Defending Animals”
Rosaleen Duffy (SOAS), “Responsibility to protect? Ecocide, interventionism and saving biodiversity”
Siobhan O’Sullivan (UNSW), “Who’s looking at what? The politics and ethics of drones in animal activism”
Wednesday 1st April 4pm – 5.30pm
Jessop West, Seminar Room 8
