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SUMMARY:Animal Aspects Working Group Autumn Meeting with Guest Speaker Dr.
  Julian Yates
DESCRIPTION:The UD Animal Aspects Working Group (IDAAWG) is hosting a spec
 ial talk by UD’s own Dr. Julian Yates during our November meeting\, and e
 veryone is welcome to attend! This special event will be held over Zoom o
 n Friday\, November 6th\, at 4pm (link below). You do not need to be a cu
 rrent member of UDAAWG to join in (though you are welcome to become one!)
 .\n\nZoom: https://udel.zoom.us/j/8422555462?omn=91976708327\n\n“Spit Boy
 s\, Spit Jacks\, Turnspit Dogs\, and the Bioenergetics of the Flesh in ea
 rly modern England”\n\nAbstract: In When Species Meet (2007)\, Donna Hara
 way famously asserted that “we might nurture responsibility with and for 
 other animals better by plumbing the category of labor more than the cate
 gory of rights” (73). This speculative paper follows Haraway’s lead by in
 vestigating child-labor and dog-labor in the early modern kitchen (1300-1
 800) to focus on the way animal labor (human and canine) overlapped with\
 , and was reinforced by\, the advent of technologies / machines for roast
 ing meat. How does factoring non human labor in medieval and early modern
  kitchens contribute to our understanding of the household and its commun
 ities? Motive force for spit turning might be provided by a human hand (u
 sually a child’s) or by a now extinct breed of dog who ran\, as The Comed
 y of Errors’ Dromio of Syracuse puts it\, “in the wheel.” Dromio’s fear o
 f being reduced to involuntary motive energy indexes the way “Spit Jacks”
  as they were generically termed (regardless of whether they were a \n\nh
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