A seminar on performing animals, from street to screen.

An Foras Feasa Seminar Room, First Floor, Iontas Bldg, Maynooth University.

‌A seminar on performing animals, from street to screen.

An Foras Feasa Seminar Room, First Floor, Iontas Bldg.

12.45: Welcome Remarks

1-2.30 pm: Panel One: Screening Animality
Chair: Páraic Kerrigan, Maynooth University

Dr. Michael Lawrence, University of Sussex. “’And Introducing Harry Hare’: Cartoon Aesthetics and Animal Performance in Frank Tashlin’s 'The Geisha Boy' (1958).”

Dr. Gwenda Young, University College Cork. “Unruly Beasts: Training the Performers in the work of Chet Franklin.”

Professor Diane Negra, University College Dublin. “Animality, Domesticity and Intimacy in 'My Cat From Hell'.”

3-4.30 pm: Panel Two: Mobile Performances
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Rains, Maynooth University

Dr. Borbala Farago, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra.
“Transnational-Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Irish Migrant Poetry.”

Professor Nick Daly, MRIA, University College Dublin. 
"Murderous Millinery and Sealskin Jackets: Animal Fashion 1880-1920."

Professor Maria Pramaggiore, Maynooth University. “Brony Performativity: Equine Therapy for Masculinity in Crisis.” 

Light refreshments served. 
Reception to follow.

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