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Program Day Two
Program - Day 2
Day Two (Saturday, November 29, 2025 / 11:00 – 19:00)
11:00 – 11:05 Welcome Remarks
11:05 – 12:05 Panel 1 (Musicians and Their Cats)
1: 11:05 – 11:20 The Cat-Mother is Mothering: The “Childless Cat Lady” Aesthetic in Taylor Swift’s
Musical Persona
(Samantha Marley / University of Western Australia)
2: 11:20 – 11:35 The Role of Cats in the Image of Taylor Swift: A Feminist Perspective
(Zu Brykalska / University of Warsaw)
3: 11:35 – 11:50 My, My, My, Delilah: Freddie Mercury’s Tribute to His Favourite Cat
(Marie Josephine Bennett / Independent Scholar)
11:50 – 12:05 Discussion
12:10 – 13:10 Panel 2 (PAW-litics)
4: 12:10 – 12:25 “They’re Eating the Cats”: Music, Humour, and the Nonhuman Animal in The Kiffness’s
Response to Trump Vs Harris
(Jack Harrison / University of Warsaw)
5: 12:25 – 12:40 “Cats for Trump”: The Dark Side of Musicalization and Ailurophilia in Audiovisual Online
Content
(Ed Katrak Spencer / Utrecht University)
6: 12:40 – 12:55 ACAB – All Cats Are Beautiful. Popular Music, Cats and Subversiveness
(Tessa Balser-Schuhmann / University of Vienna)
12:55 – 13:10 Discussion
13:10 – 13:40 Break
13:40 – 14:40 Panel 3 (Film, Games and Gear)
7: 13:40 – 13:55 Scales and Arpeggios – Perspectives on Cats and Music in Animation
(Charlotte Doesburg, Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi / University of Oxford, University College London, Uppsala
University)
8: 13:55 – 14:10 Sounding Felinity in Video Games
(Chris Hill, Sam Pollacco / University of Birmingham, Royal Holloway, University of London)
9: 14:10 – 14:25 #Studiocats: Gear Ornamentation, Sentience, and the “Humble Assistant” in Gear
Cultures
(Samantha Bennett, Eliot Bates / The Australian National University, City University of New York)
14:25 – 14:40 Discussion
14:45 – 15:30 Panel 4 (Animal Advocacy)
10: 14:45 – 15:00 The Life of Stray Cats, Street Punk and DIY
(Oskar Szwabowski, Piotr Zańko, Dominika Gruntkowska / Pomeranian University in Słupsk)
11: 15:00 – 15:15 Successful Musicians Because of Their“Mewses”
(Anne Leighton / Writer)
15:15 – 15:25 Discussion
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