Videos

All the presentation sessions and Dr Richard Ryder’s keynote speech were filmed at the conference on 10 March 2012 and are made available here in HD. Please share and link to these videos and feel free to embed them on your own websites.

Keynote address: Dr Richard Ryder

Dr Richard Ryder discusses the history of the animal rights movement, his involvement in political campaigns for animals and his ideas about campaigning strategy, and answers audience questions.

Animals in the Public Arena

• 02:54 Kim Stallwood — Animal rights: moral crusade or political movement?
  (abstract and speaker biography, full text)
• 29:51 Lee McConnell — Animals as property: the adequacy of current legal protection
  (abstract and speaker biography, handout)

This session was chaired by Mark Gold.

Conservation

• 01:30 Nicole Schafer — Dismantling media-produced fear towards predators
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 24:53 Livia Apostol — A critical approach to the study of prosocial donations for the conservation of animal species
  (abstract and speaker biography)

This session was chaired by Dr Nigel Pleasants. Please note that problems with the sound on this video are confined to the first minute.

Textual Animals

• 00:54 Seán McCorry — The political aesthetics of mid-20th Century farm fictions
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 20:19 Gill Bliss — Animals with attitude: finding a place for animated animals
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 49:26 Tina Hartmann — A dog’s words: animal language and animal intelligence in ethology and literature
  (abstract and speaker biography)

This session was chaired by Louise Squire.

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Theoretical Perspectives

• 00:14 Hannah Strommen — Biblical animals: returning to Genesis in the wake of Jacques Derrida
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 25:23 Catherine Duxbury — The Other that therefore I am: critical feminist perspectives on the ‘natural’
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 39:02 Nathan Stephens-Griffin — Doing Critical Animal Studies differently: learning from Lorde
  (abstract and speaker biography)

This session was chaired by Tereza Vandrovcová.

Animals, Symbolism and Visual Culture

• 01:01 Jingjing Zhao — Chinese zodiac: animal images in Chinese culture
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 19:32 Stuart Evans — From fairytale to roadkill: animals in art
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 46:02 Jane Flynn — Sense and sentimentality: a critical study of the influence of myth in portrayals of the soldier and horse during World War One
  (abstract and speaker biography)

This session was chaired by Dr Sam Hurn.

Speciesism, Environmentalism and Capitalism

• Christian Stache — The failures of metaphysical anti-speciesism and the benefits of historical materialistic Marxism for a social theory of animal liberation
  (abstract and speaker biography) Video no longer available
• 0.01 Daniel van Strien — Capitalism, Marxism and the animal-industrial complex
  (abstract and speaker biography)
• 17:00 Oscar Horta — Disregarding sentient beings: speciesism and environmentalism
  (abstract and speaker biography)

This session was chaired by Nathan Stephens-Griffin.