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 Transgressive Beasts: Animals Challenging Boundaries in Chinese History

Program

Monday, August 8, 2022

Time Event  
14:00 - 14:10 Welcome - Kelsey Granger & Renée Krusche  
14:00 - 16:00 Animal Allegories and Imagery  
14:10 - 14:30 › Animals, Dreams, and Altered States in Medieval Narratives - Rebecca Doran, University of Miami  
14:30 - 14:50 › From Hunted Prey to Symbols of Life: Historical and Mythological Rabbits in China and Japan - Anne Schmiedl, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg  
14:50 - 15:10 › How To Earn Your Stripes: The Practice of Tattooing Animal Motifs on Human Skin and Its Social Implications in Ancient and Premodern China - Raffaela Rettinger, Julius-Maximilians-University  
15:10 - 16:00 Discussion  
16:00 - 16:10 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:00 Defining Animals  
16:10 - 16:30 › “Without a Dog to Bark at Night in Warning”: Dogs in the Creation and Patrolling of Boundaries - Kelsey Granger, University of Cambridge  
16:30 - 16:50 › Silkworm-Human Relations in Middle Period Chinese Buddhism - Stuart Young, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania,  
16:50 - 17:10 › “Crawling Across Representational Mediums and Taxonomic Classifications: Insect Subjects in 16th century Paintings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books” - Daniel Burton-Rose, Wake Forest University  
17:10 - 18:00 Discussion  

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Time Event  
14:00 - 15:50 Animal Husbandry and Administration  
14:10 - 14:30 › The Frontier is Here: Horses and Horse Culture in the Early Ming Court - Noa Grass, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Independent Scholar  
14:30 - 14:50 › The Voyages of Eels: The Characteristics, Breeding Evolution, and Consumption of Eels in Modern Taiwan - Chunghao Kuo, Taipei Medical University  
14:50 - 15:10 › Food, Medicine and Law: Eating Donkey in Chinese Society from Medieval China to the Qing Dynasty - Shih-hsun Liu, National Palace Museum  
15:00 - 15:50 Discussion  
15:50 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 17:45 Treating Animals  
16:10 - 16:30 › Livestock – Part of More Than One World Veterinary approaches to livestock in Republican China - Renee Krusche, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg  
16:30 - 16:50 › Military Medicine and the Causational Feedback Loop Between Animal and Human Institutional Medicine in Imperial China. - Forrest McSweeney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  
16:40 - 17:30 Discussion  
17:30 - 17:45 Roundtable: 'Future Trajectories for Chinese Animal Studies'  
  
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