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Animal Turns - The Performativity of Beasts

18 Apr 2015

Animal Turns: the Performativity of Beasts

A seminar on performing animals, from street to screen.

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

 

Animal Turns: the Performativity of Beasts

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.

 

School of Film, Music and Theatre

An Scoil Scannánaíochta, Ceoil agus Amharclannaíochta

Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh, College Road, Cork, T12 K8AF

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