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HARN: Human Animal Research Network (USyd) is delighted to be hosting Visiting Fellow – Professor Sarah Whatmore (Oxford), next week. Her visit includes 2 events, details below. All are welcome, events are free, though registration is required. Details below
and also at the HARN website; <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn/news_events/whatmore_events.shtml">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn/news_events/whatmore_events.shtml</a></u></font>
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Please feel free to forward on<br>
Cheers, fiona<br>
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</span><font size="5"><span style="font-size:15pt">"THE BADGERS MOVED THE GOALPOSTS": TRIAL CULLS AND ANIMAL POLITICS IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>TUESDAY 8 APRIL<br>
</b></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13pt">PROFESSOR SARAH J. WHATMORE, ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY, THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD<br>
</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">The badger (Meles meles) is one of the most iconic creatures in the English popular imaginary. In childhood, Mr badger is introduced as the sage keeper of order in the wild woods in Kenneth Grahame’s
familiar tale ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908). Yet, as nocturnal creatures whose complex social worlds are lived out for the most part in labyrinthine underground sets, few of the people they live amongst in this densely populated country are ever likely
to encounter them first-hand. The history of their relations with people mixes savage persecution, as the subject of a once commonplace country ‘sport’ of baiting, and statutory protection as the subject of an act of parliament - the Protection of Badgers
Act 1992. <br>
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Today, the badger is caught lethally in the political cross-fire between these contrapuntal energies as farmers and conservationists dispute its role in the transmission of bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis), a disease that plagues the English dairy
cattle industry. It is a dispute that ostensibly looks to science for the answers, culminating in the autumn of 2013 in a trial cull of badgers in two locations. In the process, however, it is badgers themselves that have been seen to expose the poverty of
this formulation of the relationship between science and politics. In this paper I interrogate how it was that badgers came to ‘move the goalposts’ and with what consequences for better understanding the nature and dynamics of knowledge controversies.<br>
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More event information <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-sarah-whatmore">http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-sarah-whatmore</a></u></font>>
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<b>TUESDAY 8 APRIL<br>
</b>6 to 7.30pm<br>
Law School LT 101, Level 1<br>
Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue,<br>
The University of Sydney <br>
Click here <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml">http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml</a></u></font> for venue information<br>
RSVP<br>
Free event with online registration requested. Click here <<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-sarah-whatmore">http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-sarah-whatmore</a></u></font>>
for the registration page.<br>
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</span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size:15pt">"MORE THAN HUMAN” SEMINAR – April 9th, 2.30-4.30<br>
</span></font><span style="font-size:11pt">PRESENTERS: <br>
Professor Lesley Head ‘<font color="#313131"><b>The distinctive capacities of plants, and implications for animal studies”<br>
</b>A/Prof Dale Dominey-Howes <b>‘Not without Patsy’: animal – human relationships in natural disaster contexts’<br>
</b>A/Prof Kane Race <b>“Dog of a legal clause: the instrumentalization of animals in police powers (drug detection laws)</b></font>
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RESPONDENT: PROF SARAH WHATMORE<br>
CHAIR: PROF MIKE MICHAEL<br>
</span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">To register:<br>
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</span></font></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#313131"><font face="Arial"><b>Location: Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building A22, University of Sydney<br>
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</b></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey | Senior Lecturer<br>
Gender and Cultural Studies | SOPHI <br>
HARN: <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn</a><br>
</u></font>Vice-Chair, AASG<font color="#0000FF"> <u>www.aasg.org.au<br>
</u><a href="https://sydney.academia.edu/FionaProbynRapsey">https://sydney.academia.edu/FionaProbynRapsey</a><br>
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</font>THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY<br>
Main Quad A14| The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 <br>
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