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Human-Animal Exchange: Two Events at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 2013)

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Research Summary: Human-Animal Exchange Symposium and Workshop

Topic: Human-Animal Exchange in Emerging Scientific Technologies and Historical Context
Event Type: Two-part academic symposium and interdisciplinary workshop at Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 2013
Key Themes: Bioethical implications of human-animal hybridization; interspecies medicine; Victorian disease ecology; anthropomorphism and animal autonomy
Symposium Details: April 6–7:30pm, Teviot Row; £8/£6 tickets; panelists include Calum MacKellar (Scottish Council on Human Bioethics) and Hugh Whittall (Nuffield Council of Bioethics)
Workshop Details: April 8, 10am–3:30pm, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square; free but registration required; speakers from University of Edinburgh, University of York, and University of Manchester
Core Question: Examines whether emerging technologies blur human-animal boundaries and explores historical precedents of human-animal exchange across medicine, ethics, and ecology
Disciplinary Scope: Integrates bioethics, environmental philosophy, history of medicine, and animal studies perspectives

Human Hybrids: Perspectives on Human-Animal Exchange
April, 6 – 7.30pm, Teviot Row. Tickets £8 / £6

In this Edinburgh International Science Festival symposium, Gill Haddow, Paul De Sousa, Calum MacKellar (Director of Research, Scottish Council on Human Bioethics) and Hugh Whittall (Director of the Nuffield Council of Bioethics) join Shawn Harmon to examine fears that emerging scientific technologies could start to blur lines between humans and animals.

Have we always been hybrids? Interdisciplinary perspectives on Human-Animal exchange
8 April, 10am – 3.30pm, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square.
Free, but space is limited so registration via email is essential.

Workshop speakers: Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh): “Autonomy, Anthropomorphism, and Aesthetics”; Nik Brown (University of York): “Where the Wild Things Are: The Beasting of Biopolitics”; Andrew Gardner (University of Edinburgh): “Interspecies Exchanges in the History of Human and Animal Medicine”; Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester): “Interspecies Cunningness: Rat-catchers, Disease and Sewer Geographies in Victorian England”

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