The Portable Cow is an international, transdisciplinary project involving scholars from France, the United Kingdom, and Iowa. The Portable Cow project employs posthumanist perspectives to deepen understanding of the lived experiences of nonhuman animals, especially farmed animals; and to reexamine human-animal relationships in farming contexts. The project incorporates approaches from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to consider human-animal relationships through historical, ethnographic and creative lenses.
The Portable Cow Symposium brings the project to the United States for the first time. Collaborators Camille Bellet, Liz Hingley, and Emily Morgan will each present their research and contributions to the project, followed by a panel discussion.