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2020 Program

THE ENTIRE INSTITUTE WAS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19. WE ARE IN PROCESS OF RESCHEDULING ALL EVENTS FOR SUMMER 2021. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR THE JULY 11-17, 2021 PROGRAM!

 

CAS is pleased to offer in collaboration with the Animals & Society Institute this weeklong institute for about 20 visiting early career faculty members and graduate students from around the US and abroad. Morning workshops will be followed by afternoon plenary presentations by visiting and local scholars.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are at Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St, Urbana

Preliminary schedule: subject to change.

Sunday, July 12, 2020
6:00pm-7:30pm
Kari Weil (College of Letters, Wesleyan University)

Monday, July 13, 2020
1:30pm-3:00pm
May Berenbaum (Entomology, UI)
Intimate Associates: Human Attitudes Toward the Insects that Feast on Them
Visit with some outreach arthropods

3:30pm-5:00pm
Lindsay Marshall (American Indian Studies, University of Illinois)

7:00pm-9:00pm Location TBD
Kim Marra (American Studies and Theatre Arts, University of Iowa)
The Pull of Horses
Screening and discussion

Tuesday, July 14, 2020
4:00pm-6:00pm
Teresa Mangum (Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies and Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa)
InterSpecies Love--From the Nineteenth Century to Now

No public events Wednesday, July 15

Thursday, July 16, 2020
2:00pm-3:30pm
Evan Mwangi (English and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University)

4:00pm-5:30pm
Robert Mitchell (Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University)
Self-Recognition in Human and Nonhuman Animals

Friday, July 17, 2020
2:00pm-3:30pm
Chris Green (Animal Law & Policy Program, Harvard University)

4:00pm-5:30pm
Margo DeMello (ASI), Daniel Nasset (University of Illinois Press)
Publishing in Animal Studies

Saturday, July 18, 2020
2:00pm-3:30pm
Amy Fitzgerald (Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology, University of Windsor)