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Bovine Scholarship Network A site for scholars interested in bovines Menu Home Members Repository Files Discussion Events Scroll down to content Posts Posted on November 17, 2021 November 17, 2021 Welcome to the Bovine Scholarship Network Hi Everyone, A big welcome to the Bovine Scholarship Network. You can access the full network dashboard here: https://hcommons.org/groups/bovine-scholarship-network/ The Back story: In 2019, I reached out to a bunch of other academics who seemed to be working on cow geographies” – we had big plans to host a session centered on talking about the theoretical, methodological and empirical connections of cows and geographies at the 2020 American Association of Geographers Conference. COVID hit and plans changed. Myself and Andrea Petitt kept the conversation going and, well, here we are! We hosted our first ever Bovine Scholarship Workshop in October and it was a big success. We decided to keep the workshop small with more time dedicated toward conversation than presentation. We found we had a lot to talk about and there was ample room for thinking through ideas together. Part of those conversations involved establishing the Bovine Scholarship Network. The Network This platform is new to most of us and while we might take some time to figure it out we thought it might be preferable to having a website or a Listserve. On Humanities Commons we can share content with each other, engage in conversations and write posts like this. If you have ideas as to how we could use this site and platform better, feel free to share them. For now, consider doing the following: Put some of your own writing and journal articles into the CORE Repository. If you want to share some work in progress, calls, etc, make use of the File functions If you want to discuss a particular theme, idea, or anything really – make use of the discussion boards If there are events you think would be useful to the group, pop them into Events And any member can write a blog post! So share, write, comment ? This network is here for us to network, share, and work with each other. It is all still new :). To make full use of Humanities Commons you might want to: Look at your own individual site and consider updating your profile. Make sure to look at what your email settings are Have a look for other groups you might enjoy – like this one called Animal Studies”. Where to from here? We are in the works of putting together a call for another workshop, more on that to follow soon. Other than that things are fairly open. Perhaps head over to the discussion board if you have some ideas and propositions. I look forward to interacting with you all here in more depth! Posted on February 19, 2023 February 19, 2023 Third Bovine Scholarship Network Workshop Call for Participation June 5, 6, 7 2023 Applications due April 15, 2023 From the 5th to the 7th of June 2023, the Bovine Scholarship Network is hosting its 3 rd Bovine Scholarship Workshop: a multi-day, online, international gathering for researchers interested in and contributing to understandings of bovines in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The theme for this workshop is Methods for Bovine Scholarship . This hybrid event will be hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, convened by Scout Calvert (UNL) and Roxane Gabet (Université de Liège) with support from co-founders of the Network (Andrea Petitt and Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder). As the interdisciplinary study of animals has grown, methods from component disciplines have been taken up by bovine scholars, while new methods have been generated from within animal studies. We invite presentations to explore practices and research methods for bovine scholarship. What approaches have been fruitful for your work in generating new knowledge of bovines and bovine relations in our more-than-human history, culture, and environments? What barriers have you faced in your investigations and how have you adapted, altered, developed, or dropped methods to engage in your research with bovines? As with previous Bovine Scholarship Workshops, organizers seek to maximize participation of all attendees. With this workshop, we invite presentations in a variety of formats, the details of which can be found below: Flash talk (5 min) A flash talk is designed to be provocative – broad strokes that invite discussion or entice BSW participants to learn more, or focusing on one narrow concept or idea to explode or explore. We encourage presenters to pre-record their flash talk to share in advance; some talks may be delivered live. After all have presented, we will have a joint discussion. Project update (10 min) This is for on-going work or work that is in development that the presenter would like some help thinking through. These will be done at the workshop with discussion periods immediately following them Traditional presentation (15 min) and panel discussion This will be done the same as the previous workshops whereby presenters have 15 minutes to present work and a panel discussion will follow. Panel discussant By invitation or by request, based on your research interest statement. To apply please fill in this Google Form . You will be asked to submit your contact details, the title of your presentation, a 200-300 word abstract, and a 100-250 bio. Please note that you do not need to have an affiliated paper with your abstract and that works in progress are welcome. If you are only interested in participating (but not presenting) your application should include a 200-250 word motivation for why you would like to attend. You will also be asked to select your preferred time zones and these will be used to determine the exact timing of the workshop itself, with a slight privileging of UTC-5. The deadline for all applications is the 15th of April 2023. If you would like to stay abreast of these calls please join the Bovine Scholarship Network. The goals of the network are as follows: Knowledge sharing and networking: To create a space in which scholars working on similar subject matter but from different disciplinary backgrounds and social geographies can work with and learn from one another, charting a way for future collaboration and knowledge production. Capacity Building: To give scholars the opportunity to learn from and work closely with other scholars with similar research interests. Collaboration: To forge new avenues of collaboration between individuals, departments and universities. Knowledge Innovation: To expand and consider different ways of knowing and thinking about multi-species relations and stories. Knowledge Production: To work towards the creation of an edited volume, and to also develop some popular science content on the topic. We look forward to your application and to meeting you at the workshop! Please email any questions to bovinescholarshipnetwork@gmail.com Kindest regards, The Workshop Organizing Team Posted on March 31, 2022 March 31, 2022 Notes from the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop We (quite literally) just wrapped up the second bovine scholarship workshop. We had several fascinating presentations, loads of break out rooms and discussion, and touched on numerous fascinating topics related to bovines. We were happy to be co-hosting this workshop together with the BoS Project (The Body Societal: Unfolding Genomics Infrastructure in Cattle Livestock Selection and Reproduction). ! This entry provides a brief overview and some artefacts from the workshop. The Program You can see more about what happened and who was there by checking out the program. Like with the previous workshop we kept things tight. Each session included a presentations, panel, and plenum discussions. We also had a session centered on themes and the future of the network. The program was centered on themes based on the submissions made by presenters, which included: Bovine Economies and Technologies Being and Defining Bovines Bovine Mobility and Climate Change What do you think...