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| Date: | 19.05.2005 to 21.05.2005 |
| Location: | Cologne Germany |
| Keywords: | Animal ethics |
| Details: | ?Why look at animals?? John Berger asked twenty-five years ago. Animals have been a presence in the everyday life of humans throughout the ages ? for example, as aids to agricultural labor, as sources of food and other raw materials, as pets or objects of amusement, as involuntary subjects in scientific and medical experimentation, hunting and warfare. Historians have traditionally given short shrift to the role of animals in shaping human culture and society, but in recent years scholars have begun to pay closer attention to the place of animals in history. The time is ripe to rephrase Berger?s question and ask not simply why but also how historians can address the history of animals. This conference wants to bring together a group of scholars to present their work and to engage in discussions of the challenges connected with the history of animals. While each panel will center on particular case studies, the goal of the conference is to develop common themes and questions about what a more animal-centered perspective can add to historical scholarship and our concrete understanding of the past. What are the major methodological and theoretical questions that arise from looking at animals? Does this perspective enable us to make use of different types of historical materials or allow us to read traditional sources in a new way? What new possibilities emerge with regard to the cross-cultivation of historical subfields such as social, cultural, environmental history, the history of technology and medicine? And finally, does a more animal-centered history have a purpose that reaches beyond mere academic endeavors? |
| Contact: | German Historical Institute Address: Tel: Fax: Email: info@ghi-dc.org |
| Webpage: | http://www.ghi-dc.org/conferences/animalsinhistory_cfp.html |
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