Animal Studies and the Voice of the Other

Lori Straus — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:24:41 +0000

Animal Studies and the Voice of the Other Lori Straus Thu, 11/17/2016 - 10:24

Ron Broglio will trace back to the 18th-century sensibility movement contemporary post-humanist ideas of animals having a voice. In his talk, he will pursue what animal studies can push against in terms of the animal “rights” movement.

His publications include:

Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor and Animal Life in British Romanticism (forthcoming SUNY 2017)
Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press 2011)
Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830 (Bucknell 2008)

Ron teaches at Arizona State University. Follow him on Twitter @manimalicious.

Ron's talk is co-sponsored by the UW English Dept and the WCGS research group on "Poetics and Nature circa 1800."

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Animal Studies and the Voice of the Other