Twenty-nine early career faculty members and graduate students from 22 campuses and 7 countries will convene at Illinois for the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute, July 9-15. The ambitious program--developed in partnership with the Animals & Society Institute--includes presentations by UI faculty, seven visiting scholars and an adaptation by Deke Weaver of BEAR, the latest installment in his Unreliable Bestiary.
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Sunday, July 9, 2017
6:00pm-7:30pm
Una Chaudhuri (English and Drama, NYU), Performing Interspecies Diplomacy

Monday, July 10, 2017
2:00pm-3:00pm
Nigel Rothfels (History, UW Milwaukee), The Bone Archive

3:15pm-4:15pm
Leesa Fawcett (Environmental Studies, York U), Sounds of Multi-species Silence: Impacts of Noise Pollution in the Ocean Commons

2:00pm-3:00pm
Leslie Irvine (Sociology, U Colorado at Boulder), My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and their Animals

Wednesday, July 12, 2017
7:30pm-9:00pm
Deke Weaver (Theatre and New Media, UI), BEAR and The Unreliable Bestiary

Thursday, July 13, 2017
2:00pm-3:00pm
Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology, U Notre Dame), Making, Breaking, Reinventing: Engaging Human-Other Animal Interface Research in the Anthropocene

3:15pm-4:15pm
Kenneth Shapiro (President of the Board, ASI), History and Future of Human-Animal Studies

Friday, July 14, 2017
2:00pm-3:00pm
Jamie Jones (English, UI), Animal Capital/Carbon Capital: Animal Studies and Energy Humanities from Whaling to Deepwater Horizon

3:15pm-4:15pm
Chris Green (Animal Law & Policy, Harvard U), Alternative Animal Advocacy: Channeling Public Sentiment into Substantive Welfare Advances

Organizers:

Margo DeMello, ASI
Jane Desmond, U of Illinois
Kim Marra, U of Iowa
Ken Shapiro, ASI

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