DAY 1 - Thursday, 20th November

9.00 - 9.30 Registration

9.35 Introduction by Rosemarie McGoldrick

9.40 - 11.00 Session 1 Chair & Discussant: Bob and Roberta Smith

Steve Baker
Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Central Lancashire
Keynote address: Self-portrait with human, or: What might Derrida's 'being-huddled-together' look like?

Rikke Hansen
Researcher at Tate Britain
Presentation: Animal Skins in Contemporary Art

Clive Adams
Director, Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World, Exeter
Presentation: Fat Cats and Poodles – Projecting on the Natural World

12.45 Buffet Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Session 3 Chair & Discussant: Ben Cain

Ron Broglio
Professor of Literature, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Presentation: A Left-handed Primer for Approaching Animal Art

Jo Longhurst
Artist
Presentation: What a dog might tell us: on looking and being looked at

15.30 - 16:00 Tea

16:00 to 17:30 Session 4 Chair & Discussant: Nico d'Oliveira

Matthew Poole
Programme Director, Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex
Presentation: Conditions of Solidarity and Justice - Does the conceiving of ethics separate humans from other animals?

Dr Hilda Kean
Tutor in History and Acting Dean, Ruskin College, Oxford
Presentation: Recent Animal Memorials

18:00 PRIVATE VIEW of The Animal Gaze show at Unit 2 & Unit 6

DAY 1 - Friday, 21st November

9.00 – 9.30 convene

9.35 - 11.00 Session 5 Chair & Discussant: Professor Kate Soper

David Wood
Centennial Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA
Presentation: Mirror Infractions in the Yucatan - why should flies be without art?

Emily Brady
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh
Presentation: Animals in Environmental, Land and Eco-art

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 13.00 Session 6 Chair & Discussant: Suky Best

Matthew Fuller
David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths
Presentation: Art for Animals

Marcus Coates
Artist
The artist in conversation with Ron Broglio

13.00-14.00 Buffet Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Session 7 Chair & Discussant: Dr Paul Cobley

Giovanni Aloi
Lecturer in History of Art and Media Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and the Open University; Editor of Antennae, the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.
Presentation: The Death of the Animal

Dario Martinelli
Docent of Semiotics and Musicology, Helsinki
Video Presentation: 3 Steps Towards Art: Semiotically Investigating Animal Aesthetics

15.30 - 16:00 Tea

16:00 - 17:00 Session 8 Chair & Convenor: Rosemarie McGoldrick

An hour’s session devoted to delegate participation. Delegates were invited to pose general questions arising out of the symposium’s proceedings.

17:00 Professor Kate Soper
Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan University
Conclusion and thanks