Domesticated over 10,500 years ago, cows are currently found in every country across the globe yet there is still much to learn about their varied histories, geographies, and lives. Part of the reason for this is a lack of soft infrastructure for scholars to connect with each other across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. This network aims to gather researchers who have an interest in broader ‘bovine scholarship’ and more specific ‘cow scholarship’ to share, learn, and engage in knowledge creation with one another.

Network Founders: Claudia Hirtenfelder (17ch38@queensu.ca) and Andrea Petitt (andrea.petitt@gender.uu.se).

Files List

  • 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop (Program)  
    In category: Program.
    Uploaded by Claudia Hirtenfelder on 31 March 2022.
  • Bovine Scholarship Workshop (5-6 Oct 2021)  
    In category: Program.
    Uploaded by Claudia Hirtenfelder on 24 October 2021.

    To better understand the multiplicity and dynamism of human-cow relations, this workshop aims to bring together scholars who are working on questions of human-cow relations from a variety of contexts and who are asking questions about these relations from a multitude of lenses (such as historical, geographical, gendered and phenomenological). Domesticated over 10,500 years ago, cows are currently found in every country across the globe yet there is still much to learn about their varied histories, geographies, and lives. This despite cows’ centrality to human pursuits of agriculture, colonization and capitalism as well as their implication in climate change. Furthermore, even as social research on cows emerges from all continents there is little opportunity to understand how these different cow geographies and stories are connected and/or produce varied realities and knowledge.