Animal Studies Summer Institute Video Archive

Videos of plenary talks starting with the 2021 summer institute are available here.

Please click on the title to access the video.

2025
Sharon P. Holland, A Proper Insurgency: Animal Study and Interdisciplinary Critique
Susan McHugh, Woodswalk? Rambling, Writing, and Learning about Our Environment with Dogs
Jane Desmond, Rethinking Medicine, Public Policy and the “Multi-Species Family”: A Social Justice Model of Access to Care
May Berenbaum, Why people (for the most part) love bees but hate wasps
Katie Hornstein, The Nineteenth-Century Lion Hunt, between Algeria and Paris
 

2024
María Elena García, Burro Bombs and Hanging Dogs
Claire Jean Kim, Fighting for Animals in an Anti-Black World
Maria Lux, Artist Talk
Gene Robinson, The Genomic Case Against Genetic Determinism
May Berenbaum, What's in a Name?
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Robotic Bees, Insect Bots, and Robotic Cats, Oh My!
Chris Green, The Evolution of Animal Advocacy
 

2023
Jenny Davis, "Trickster Academy": A Poetry Reading and Discussion
Robert Mitchell, Self-recognition and Self Awareness in Animals
Dinesh Wadiwel, Animals and Capital
May Berenbaum, How Scientific Studies of the House Fly in the 20th Century Influenced Language and Culture
Chris Green, The Evolution of Animal Advocacy
Kim Marra, The Pull of Horses on Public Engagement
 

2022 | Virtual Institute | Special Event
Peter Porter, Engaging Gunda
 

2021 | Virtual Institute | all talks on Zoom
Kari Weil, Creaturely Remains and the Mattering of Memory
Lindsay Marshall, Hearing History Through Hoofbeats
Amy Fitzgerald, Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
Teresa Mangum, Desiring Difference
May Berenbaum, Ectoparasites--The Ultimate Companion Animals
Chris Green, Evolution of Animal Advocacy