These events are made possible by generous support from Roger Williams University Office of the Provost, School of Humanities, Arts, and Education, University Library, Multicultural Student Union, and the Department of History, and the Rhode Island Historical Society.

Also supported by the Preservation Society of Newport County and its forthcoming exhibition Wild Imagination: Animals and the Gilded Age, coming in 2024 to Rosecliff.

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2023
Friday, September 29th
8:30 AM

Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Empathetic Encounters: Horses and Humans in the Art of George Stubbs

Michaela Giebelhausen, Courtauld Institute of Art

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Faithful and Loving: Stable Boys and Their Horses in Renaissance Italy

Sarah Duncan

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Forever a Mustang: An Orphan Foal’s Transition to an Adoptive Home

Nancy Ceroni, Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center)
Christine Reed, University of Nebraska

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Free-Ranging, Feral, and Fully Wild: What Observing Horses in the Wild Can Tell Us About Ourselves and the Horses We Keep

Abbi Letteri, (Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

10:50 AM

The Earliest Images of Horse and Chariot Battle in Egypt: A Re-Evaluation

Stephen Harvey, Ahmose and Tetisheri Project

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

10:50 AM - 12:20 PM

The King Himself Training His Horses: The Oldest Horse Training Scene in History

Lonneke Delpeut, University of Vienna

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

10:50 AM - 12:20 PM

The Two Deaths of Equids in Northeastern Brazil

Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo Jr., University of São Paolo

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

10:50 AM - 12:20 PM

“Thus the Dead Are Made to Minister to the Comfort of the Living”: Equine Disposal Practices in the 18th-19th Century Eastern Woodlands Region

Elizabeth McCague, University of Maryland
Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman, University of Maryland

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

10:50 AM - 12:20 PM

12:20 PM

Lunch

12:20 PM - 1:50 PM

1:50 PM

Emergence of Women in Equestrian Sports & Challenges They Encountered

Crystal Taylor, Johnson & Wales University

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

1:50 PM - 2:30 PM

Red Star Animal Relief in WWI: Rhode Island Chapter

Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Roger Williams University

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

1:50 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

Coffee Break

2:30 PM - 2:40 PM

2:40 PM

Translation and Studies of Jordanus Rufus’s Treatise on Horsemanship: A Project Talk

Anastasija Ropa, Latvian Academy of Sport Education
Emma Herbert-Davies, University of Leeds

Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library

2:40 PM - 3:30 PM

4:15 PM

Horse

Geraldine Brooks

Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences, Room 157

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

6:00 PM

Superhorses and Horse Girls

Katherine Mooney

Richard L. Bready Mount Hope Bay Sailing and Education Center

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Reception

7:00 PM