Falconry as a performance and image seems neatly associated with concepts of masculinity and maleness in the common-sense knowledge of today in Europe and the UAE likewise.
What if this seemingly obvious connection of the falcon and the man, obscures and conceals an alternative reality in which falconry had been and is also a female practice? What are the images that have been associated with women in falconry over the centuries therewith challenging the idea of falconry as a masculine culture? What if the human-animal relation is built on symbols and signs that explicitly highlight a certain kind of femininity? In short: what falconry can teach us about feminism?
Meet on Monday, November 22 at 7:00 p.m. to discover all its secrets.
Conference in English
PCR test of 96 hours mandatory
Anne-Lise Tropato is an Art Historian, visiting scholar at New-York University Abu Dhabi. She conducts research projects on artistic and cultural history of falconry and is the scientific co-editor of Raptor on the fist (Wachholtz 2020). She teaches Cultural Inheritance and Social Imaginary of Falconry at NYUAD.
