Thursday 15th June 2023
Talk by Gemma Curto at Newcastle University.
Wednesday 10 to Thursday 11 May 2023
Pam Liversidge Building, University of Sheffield
The third instalment of ShARC Tales, a two-day symposium hosted by the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre.
11 April 2023
3 April 2023
Online via Google meet
Reflections, Revisions and New Horizons. An event organised by ShARC to mark the 50th anniversary of Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation".
24 February 2023
30 January 2023
6 December 2022
Room 109, Elmfield Building, University of Sheffield and online via Google Meet
21 November 2022
Online via Google Meet
8 November 2022
Alfred Denny Conference Room, University of Sheffield
27 October 2022 (cancelled due to illness - check back for rescheduled date)
Diamond, Lecture Theatre 8
20 October 2022
National Videogame Museum, Sheffield
Talks from Tom Tyler, Eva Giraud, and Peter Sands
17 October 2022
Blackboard
21 September 2022
The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 8
4 May 2022
Alfred Denny Conference Room, University of Sheffield
In addition to Michael’s talk, there was also a Q&A session with Michael, led by Bob McKay. ShARC organised the event in partnership with SCRiF.
12-13 May 2022
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
The symposium includes two keynote speakers, as well as two workshops:
“What is a PhD?” aimed towards UG and PGT students and led by current ShARC PGRs.
“What is a Postdoc?” aimed towards PGRs and led by current ShARC ECRs.
19 October 2021, 2-3pm
Online
ShARC's half-day event featuring three speakers.
With talks from: Siobhan O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and host of the amazing Knowing Animals podcast; Angela Martin, political philosopher and PRIMA-Grant researcher at the University of Basel; and Robert Garner, professor of political theory (specialising in animal rights) at the University of Leicester.
A talk from environmental historian Dolly Jørgensen, Professor of History at the University of Stavanger.
29-30 April 2019
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
Keynote speakers:
Lucinda Cole, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Thom van Dooren, The University of Sydney, Australia
Artist in Residence: Steve Baker, The University of Central Lancashire, UK
This conference was generously supported by BIOSEC and the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.
Read Sarah Bezan’s report on Animal Remains on our blog.
27 March 2019
Jessop Building Seminar Room 215
5 March 2019
Jessop Building Ensemble Room
8-9 November 2018
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
The inaugural ShARC Tales Workshop.
17 April 2018
Firth Court FC-GO2
12 December 2017
Portabello Centre Pool Seminar Room B59a
16 May 2017
Arts Tower, Lecture Theatre 7
16 May 2017
Arts Tower, Lecture Theatre 8
25 April 2017
Arts Tower, Lecture Theatre 7
31 March 2017
University of Sheffield
14 February 2017
Hicks Building HI-LTD
2 February 2017
Arts Tower, Room AT-LT05
6 December 2016
9 Mappin Street, 9MS-G14
29 November 2016
Diamond building DIA-WR1
18-19 November 2016
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
Plenary speakers:
Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield); David Farrier (University of Edinburgh); Helen Tiffin (University of Wollongong)
15 November 2016
Firth Court, Room F02a
18 October 2016
Hicks Building, Seminar Room F30
16 June 2016
Jessop West Seminar Room 8
Professor Carrie Rohman of Lafayette College is both a semi-professional dancer and one of the foremost scholars of literary animal studies; she has published widely, including her first monograph Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal and essays on Rebecca West, Rachel Rosenthal, J.M. Coetzee, Virgina Woolf and Italo Calvino.
19 May 2016
The Diamond, Meeting Room 1
12 May 2016
Jessop West Seminar Room 6
27 April 2016
The Diamond, Meeting Room 1
3 March 2016
Jessop West Seminar Room 7
25 February 2016
Jessop West Seminar Room 7
27 November 2015
Jessop West Seminar Room 8
Film screening: The Call of Cthulu,
Short story: Ray Bradbury, 'The Fog Horn' (PDF, 27KB)
10 November 2015
Jessop West Seminar Room 7
12 October 2015
Jessop West Seminar Room 2
Read the intro: Carol Adams – Sexual Politics of Meat (PDF, 548KB)
28 September 2015
Seminar Room C5, 301 Glossop Road
Speakers: Dinesh Wadiwel (Sociology, University of Sydney), Robert McKay (English, University of Sheffield), Charlotte Hay (Politics, University of Leicester)
15 September 2015
Jessop West Seminar Room 2
Pick’s article is available online
An interview with Pick where she discusses the politics of animal images on the Knowing Animals podcast series: https://knowinganimals.libsyn.com/
Attendees were encouraged to view the (fantastic) interactive short documentary Bear 71, which forms the focus of the article: https://bear71vr.nfb.ca/
An archived program of our Spring 2014-15 seminar series can be found on our archived WordPress site.
Tom Tyler , “Being Prey: Endless Runner”
16 March 2015
Richard Roberts Building, B79.
Jointly hosted by Sheffield Centre for Visual Studies and Videogames Reading Group
Rosaleen Duffy, “Responsibility to protect? Ecocide, interventionism and saving biodiversity” and Siobhan O’Sullivan, “Who’s looking at what? The politics and ethics of drones in animal activism”
1st April 2015
Jessop West Seminar Room 8
Megan Cavell, “The Habits and Habitats of Old English Riddle-Animals”
15th April 2015
Humanities Research Institute (HRI)
Jointly hosted by Sheffield Medieval and Ancient Research Seminar
Naomi Sykes, “Human-animal studies in archaeology: views from the past, perspectives on the present”
29th April 2015
Richard Roberts Building B79
Umberto Albarella and Angelos Hadjikoumis, “Humans, livestock and their landscape: past, present and future”
5 May 2015 Day symposium
Jessop West Exhibition Space
David Herman, “Storytelling beyond the Human: Modelling Animal Experiences in Narrative Worlds”
6 May 2015
Richard Roberts Building, A87
Jointly hosted with School of English Research Seminar
Lourdes Orozco, “Thinking about the Posthuman Actor: Animals in Performance Practices”
20 May 2015
Humanities Research Institute (HRI) seminar rooms
Jointly hosted with School of English Research Seminar
An archive of our 2014-15 reading group is online on our archived WordPress site.
17–20 July, 2014
University of Sheffield
A major international English Studies conference focused on literary animal studies.
Keynote speakers at the conference were Tom Tyler, Erica Fudge, Laura Brown, Kevin Hutchings, Diana Donald, Cary Wolfe, and Susan McHugh.
Hosted at the University of Sheffield on 18th October, 2013, Animal Machines was a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to examine the interrelations of animals and technology, featuring contributions from literature, film, the social sciences, and information studies.
The pervasive association of animality and technicity is not only an ontological question but also structures various material and representational practices. Western philosophy has long struggled with this relation, particularly in the aftermath of Descartes’ famous assertion of the mechanistic essence of animality. The ethical and political dimensions of these ontological questions are brought into focus in concrete ways through the lived experience of both humans and nonhuman animals in their everyday embodied interaction with technologies.
Anat Pick, Seán McCorry, Fabienne Collignon, Clara Mancini, Richard Twine, Robert McKay, John Miller, Matthew Cole, Emily Thew.
An archive of the symposium is available here.
The Animal Gaze returned was a major exhibition of contemporary animal-themed artworks, hosted at the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, 2nd August – 2nd September, 2013.
You can view the photostream of the “The Animal Gaze Returned” exhibition on Flickr.
When you are caught in The Animal Gaze Returned, you will find that the fascination of animal worlds poses conceptual and ethical challenges to human priorities. Artists in this exhibition question the way humans look at animals, how animals return that look, and how this shapes human interactions with them; how people connect, and often don’t connect, with other beings.
In The Animal Gaze Returned, contemporary artists extend and complicate traditions in Fine Art by representing animals as more than objects of decoration or status. They use strategies that usurp conventions of anthropomorphic symbolism to recognize that animals’ visual presence – and ability to look – shape and are shaped by a wide variety of media, from painting, video and photography to sculpture and performance.
Suky Best, Olivier Richon, Andrea Roe, Bob and Roberta Smith, Rosemarie McGoldrick, Darren Harvey-Regan, Steve Baker, Lucy Powell, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, Ian Brown, Aurelia Mihai, Greta Alfaro, Cartwright and Jordan, Kathy High and Edwina Ashton.
Chloë Brown, artist, senior lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University,
Rosie McGoldrick, artist, senior lecturer in Fine Art at The CASS, London Metropolitan University and Dr. Robert McKay, writer and lecturer in English Literature at University of Sheffield.
The exhibition An Animal Space took place in the Jessop West Building foyer at University of Sheffield from 2 August to 30 August. It displayed the early results of an ongoing collaboration between Chloë Brown and Robert McKay (curators of The Animal Gaze Returned), which brings the methods of contemporary art practice and literary criticism into conversation to reflect on human fascination by and use of other animals.
The exhibition combined sculpture, drawing and text and explores the connections, real and imaginary, between the photographic, material and textual traces of those animals who undertook early space flights, and the representation of such animals in postwar literary fiction. The works respond with empathy and playfulness to this history of dogs, spiders, mice and monkeys as astronauts (animalnauts?) and leave the viewer wondering — what flights of imagination are necessary to truly encounter animals in space? Also displayed as part of the exhibition, An Illustrated Theriography comprises high quality reproductions of jacket designs, illustrative quotations and exploratory annotations; it offers a visual record of the animal worlds presented in some of the most unusual and imaginative postwar literature.
A photostream archive of the exhibition is available on Flickr.