{"id":20,"date":"2017-10-02T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:47:03","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Upcoming events<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sumtymsbit\/sum-tyms-bytin-sum-tyms-bit\/\">24 October 2020\u00a0(11am-5pm):\u00a0Sum Tyms Bytin Sum Tyms Bit<\/a><\/h5>\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1600470761244_4000\" class=\"editor-indent\">&#8216;Sum Tyms Bytin Sum Tyms Bit&#8217; will be an online \u2018sum poasyum\u2019 or programme of talks, screenings and, creative responses inspired by the novel, <em><strong>Riddley Walker<\/strong>,<\/em> the 1980 cult novel by Russell Hoban. Featuring special guest, writer and editor Dominic Power, whose radio adaptation of<i> Riddley Walker\u00a0<\/i>brought a new audience to the novel. Also featuring the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/\">Kent Animal Humanities Network,<\/a> new creative commissions from Feral Practice and Sonia Overall, and the Festival Read Book Club.<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"view-all\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/events\/allevents.html\">More events<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Previous events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5><b>Kent Animal Humanities Lecture series (Virtual): Summer 2020\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><b><\/b>[<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/2020\/09\/abstracts.pdf\">abstracts ]<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>27 May 2020: Jane Spencer, \u2018I Was An Ass\u2019: Writing about Animals in the Age of Revolution<\/li>\n<li>3 June 2020:\u00a0\u00a0Jeanne Dubino, Global Subjects: Street Dogs in Modern and Contemporary World Literature<\/li>\n<li>10 June 2020: Lucinda Cole (with Rajani Sudan), &#8216;Great Mortalities&#8217;: Animal Plagues, Human Health, and the Medical Posthumanities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>7 November 2019 <\/strong>, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/calendar\/?eid=40328&amp;view_by=day&amp;date=20191107&amp;category=&amp;tag=\">Mad Dogs, Englishmen and Lascars: Animals and Indian Ocean Seafaring\u2019<\/a> by Aaron Jaffer (Curator at Royal Museums Greenwich); Postcolonial Seminar Series<strong>: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/2019\/11\/abstract.docx\">abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>25-27 April 2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/maritime-animals-conference\/\">Maritime Animals: Telling Stories of Animals at Sea<\/a>.<\/strong> Two and half-day international conference. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK; Organser: Dr. Kaori Nagai<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/10\/23\/guest-talk-on-animal-activism-with-dr-siobhan-osullivan\/\"><strong>Animal Activism: An Animal Studies Forum<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Guest speaker : <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Dr Siobhan O\u2019Sullivan (UNSW), &#8216;What has an Animal Activist done for you Lately? \/\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Roundtable<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">: Peter Adkins (School of English), Kristof Dhont (School of Psychology), Charlotte Sleigh (School of History)\u00a0\u00a016 November 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turnercontemporary.org\/whats-on\/00000003789\/pest\">Pest<\/a> (a day event with artist performances, workshops, film, animal expert-led tours), Turner Contemporary<\/strong>. Organiser: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/person\/rose-thompson\/\">Rose Thompson<\/a>. 16 September 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/2018\/09\/PEST-Turner-Contemporary-16.09.2018.pdf\">Full programme<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/horsepower2018.com\/\">Horses and Courts: The Reins of Power. An International Symposium<\/a>. The Wallace Collection<\/strong>, London. Organiser: Prof. Donna Landry, 21-23 March 2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birds and Writing\u200b. Speakers: Nicholas Royle, Alex Preston\u200b, Ben Hickman. <\/strong>Organiser: Dr. Sarah Wood (9 February 2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Miller (Sheffield), \u2018Utopian Protein: Eating Well in the World to Come\u2019<\/strong> (7 February 2018, the School of English research seminar).<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/kentanimalhumanitiesnetwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1985\/2018\/09\/Abstract.docx\">\u00a0Abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal Trophies and Colonial Atrophy: Exploring the Image of Trophy Hunting in Contemporary Literature, Film and Art&#8217;<\/strong> &#8211; Matthew Whittle (Kent),\u00a012 October, 16:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human-Animal Tensions and the Figure of the Melancholy Whale&#8217;<\/strong> &#8211; Graham Huggan (Leeds),\u00a019 October, 16:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing Animals symposium<\/strong>, March 3 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>H.G. Wells Lecture 2017<\/strong>\u00a0-&#8220;Good Mothers&#8221; and &#8220;King Tyrants&#8221; in the Mesozoic: An Anthropology of Dinosaur Science and Spectacle &#8211; Prof Brian Noble (Dalhousie University, Canada), March 1, 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kent Animal Humanities Network Annual Symposium 2016<\/strong>\u00a0(September 16, 2016). Canterbury Cathedral Lodge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Book Launch: Cosmopolitan Animals<\/strong>\u00a0(March 8, 2016). Grimond Lecture Theatre 2, University of Kent. Guest speaker: Dr. Amanda Rees (University of York), \u2018Anthropomorphising the Anthropocene: The Pragmatics, Politics and Poetics of Animal Agency\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal Humanities<\/strong>\u00a0(School of English Research Seminar Series \/ Spring Term, 2015). Darwin Lecture Theatre 3, University of Kent.\n<ul>\n<li>January 21: Jonathan Burt, \u2018The Birds Watch the Humans (Thoughts on Raymond Bellour, Helen Macdonald, Vinciane Despret, and Thomas Bewick)\u2019<\/li>\n<li>February 18: Margaret Salmon, \u2018Oyster: A Discussion of Marine Fantasy and \u201cNatural\u201d History\u2019 (with a screening of the short film\u00a0<em>Oyster<\/em>, 2014)<\/li>\n<li>March 18: Dr. Lynn Turner (Goldsmiths), \u2018Thinking \u201cOutside the Vox\u201d\u2019<\/li>\n<li>March 25: Dr. Saurabh Mishra (Sheffield), \u2018From the Regal to the Holy: The Symbolic Meanings of Animals in Colonial India\u2019<\/li>\n<li>April 1: Professor Garry Marvin (Roehampton), \u2018The Art of Tracking: Engaging with Animal Traces\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cosmopolitan Animals<\/strong>, an international conference, October 26-27, 2012, at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Keynote speakers: Professor Donna Haraway and Professor Simon Glendinning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming events 24 October 2020\u00a0(11am-5pm):\u00a0Sum Tyms Bytin Sum Tyms Bit &#8216;Sum Tyms Bytin Sum Tyms Bit&#8217; will be an online \u2018sum poasyum\u2019 or programme of talks, screenings and, creative responses inspired by the novel, Riddley Walker, the 1980 cult novel by Russell Hoban. 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