ISAZ Public Performance: Matt Black "The Snoopy Question"

Carri Westgarth

Join us for this public performance by Matt Black to celebrate the opening of the ISAZ 2020 Virtual Conference. Sponsored by CHSSoHMT.

ISAZ Conference Poet (kindly funded by the Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences of Health, Medicine and Technology (CHSSoHMT), at the University of Liverpool)The latest show by acclaimed writer and performer MATT BLACK is about dogs and people.What happens when a man starts to think he is a dog? That dogs have the answer to all our problems? Join Matt Black for joyful entertainment with a great shaggy dog story, surprising dog facts, excellent poems, and cheap props. Inspired by Lola, a rescue dog from Ireland and current dog research, you'll learn about dogs' eyebrow techniques, what percentage dog you might be, and one dog's answer to world peace.Comedy, science and poetry collide!Matt is a writer based in Leamington Spa. Since being Derbyshire Poet Laureate (2011-13) he has successfully completed over 20 substantial commissions on public themes, and over the last 4 years has worked extensively on public knowledge work, including writing a play inspired by University of Liverpool academic research into extreme weather, which has toured for two years. He is currently presenting his show ‘The Snoopy Question; One dog’s answer to world peace’ on a UK tour, after a successful run at the 2019 Edinburgh fringe, and its content is based upon conversations with researchers at the University of Liverpool about dogs and their interactions with people. In 2019 he was commissioned by a University of Liverpool public engagement grant held by Dr Westgarth and Dr Pearson, who lead the cross-faculty ‘Connecting Human-Animal Interaction Research (CHAIR) network. In this pilot project he worked closely with four researchers to translate their findings into poetry, and also hosted a public writing workshop and reading event, which resulted in a booklet of poems by staff and students, called ‘Dear Fly’. Due to the success of this work, we wish to further public and researcher engagement with interdisciplinary anthrozoological research and Matt will be hosting a writing workshop at the conference, as well as writing poems based on talks he attends during the conference. The International Society for Anthrozoology (www.isaz.net) was formed in 1991 as a supportive organisation for the scientific and scholarly study of human-animal interactions. ISAZ is a non-profit, non-political organisation with a worldwide, multi-disciplinary membership of students, scholars and interested professionals. The University of Liverpool warmly welcome you to the 29th international ISAZ conference, from Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th September 2020. The theme for ISAZ 2020 is ‘One Health, One Welfare: Wellbeing for all in human-animal interactions’.

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ISAZ Public Performance: Matt Black "The Snoopy Question"

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