Colloque international “Interspecies interactions in the visual arts (1550-1914). Collaborations, experimentations, oppositions” Lyon, 21-23 mai 2025

International symposium: “Interspecies interactions in the visual arts (1550-1914). Collaborations, experimentations, oppositions”
Lyon, May 21st-22nd-23rd 2025

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Wednesday, May 21 – Auditorium Henri Focillon – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
20 Pl. des Terreaux, 69001

15:30: Welcome*

16:00: Opening remarks*
Laurent Baridon (Université Lyon 2)
Clara Langer (Université Lyon 2/Universität Konstanz), Oriane Poret (Université Lyon 2)
Jean-Christophe Stuccilli (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon)

16:30-17:30: Thematic Museum Tour*
Ludmila Virassamynaïken (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon)

17:30- 18:45: Opening lecture (in-person only)
Sarah Cockram (University of Glasgow)
Animals in the Frame: Methods for Teaching and Research on Interspecies Interactions in Visual Sources

18:45: Buffet Dinner at the Museum

*Events for speakers, chairs and committees only

Thursday, May 22 – Salle Marc Bloch – Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lyon Saint-Étienne
14 Av. Berthelot, 69007
https://uni-konstanz-de.zoom.us/j/92774565894?pwd=bCtz4Mst8TgT3RhVDMr0g0uyyzPw33.1

9:00: Welcome / Introduction

9:30-11:00: Session 1 “Visual Politics of Animal Iconographies”
Session chair: Maurice Saß (Alanus University)

• Paul Smith (Leiden Universiteit), On Animal Presences in Painted Paradises, from Lucas Cranach (1530) to Melchior Bocksberger (c. 1570) and beyond
• Malou Bozec (ENS-PSL), La pêche miraculeuse des Amiraux. L’Allégorie de la pêche au hareng florissante à l’issue de la guerre anglo-néerlandaise de Willem Eversdijck, c. 1667, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Amy Freund (Southern Methodist University), Modernism is a Cat

11:00: Coffee break

11:30-12:30: Roundtable 1 : Quelles méthodologies pour une histoire animale de l’art ?
Chair: Chloé Pluchon-Riera (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Speakers : Guillaume Cassegrain (Université Grenoble Alpes), Armelle Fémelat (chercheuse indépendante), Marie-Charlotte Lamy (Université de Neuchâtel)

12:30: Lunch break

14:00-15:30: Session 2 “Collaborations? Photographic Media and the Perception of the Living World”
Session chair : Marion Bélouard (Université de Limoges)

• Nicole Liao (University of Toronto), Do Fish see Colour? Early Photo Media and Physiological Studies in Animal Vision
• Rosalind Hayes (Durham University), Material Extraction and Interspecies Negotiation in the C19th Zoological Photography of Gambier Bolton
• Vanessa Bateman (Trent University), (Un)wanted Human-Avian Interactions in the Photographs of William L. Finley (online)

15:30: Coffee break

16:00-17:30: Session 3 “Animal Experience and the Production of Knowledge”
Session chair: Clara Langer (Université Lyon 2/Universität Konstanz)

• Dorothee Fischer-Kuklau (Universität Trier), Slippery Subjects. Representation of Aquatic Animals and Knowledge Production in the 18th Century
• Paula Bruno Garcén (University of Buenos Aires), Insects, Bacteria and Animal Fragments before the Solar Microscope: Experiences of Wonder, Dread and Knowledge into the Miniature World (online)
• Barbara Ryckewaert (Université Paris 8), L’iconographie des traités équestres européens du 16ème au 19ème siècle, le dessin au service de l’enseignement visuel des interactions humaines-équines

Friday, May 23 – Amphithéâtre Benveniste – Université Lyon 2
86 rue Pasteur, 69007
https://uni-konstanz-de.zoom.us/j/98711086434?pwd=aRuekwkHDqYI7pgM7Mq8x00CGte4iM.1

9:00: Welcome

9:30: Session 4 “Facing Animal Emotions”
Session chair: Claire Jouy (LARHRA)

• Naïs Quessada (Université de Toulouse), Entre bestialité et expression : l’animal comme acteur dans la peinture de chasse des Pays-Bas du Nord et du Sud au XVIIe siècle
• Robert Bauernfeind (Universität Augsburg), Interspecies Interactions in Goya’s Diversiones Nacionales. Humans as Animals, the Sublime and the Grotesque
• Béatrice Denis (Université de Montréal), Dead Horses in the Snow: the Depiction of Equine Corpses in the Representations of the Battlefield of Eylau (1807)

11:00: Coffee break

11:30-12:30: Roundtable 2: Human-Animal Studies Now: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Ecological Perspectives
Chair : Maurice Saß (Alanus University)
Speakers: Paul Smith (Leiden Universiteit), Anne-Sophie Tribot (AMU-Institut d’établissement Océan), Marion Bélouard (Université de Limoges), Matteo Proto-Ghiringhelli (Sapienza Università di Roma/Université Lyon 2)

12:30: Lunch break

14:00-15:30: Session 5 “From Extraction to Artistic Exploitation”
Session chair: Oriane Poret (Université Lyon 2)

• Marina Vidas (Kongernes Samling), Animals at the Danish Court: Representations of the Power and Frailty of Beasts in the Early Modern Paintings (c. 1600-c. 1700)
• Patricia D. Meneses (University of Campinas), Cage Free Art: Martin Johnson Heade and Hummingbirds Between Domestication and Extraction (online)
• Marie-Charlotte Lamy (Université de Neuchâtel), Peindre « d’après l’animal vivant » : Une consommation visuelle du non-humain à la ménagerie du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

15:30: Coffee break

16:00: Closing keynote
Kate Nichols (University of Birmingham), Imaging Imperial Animals: the Politics of Big Cat Presences in Victorian Painting

17:00: End of the symposium