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Professor Davis will give a reading, and discussion of her poetry collection, Trickster Academy, which explores being Native in Academia—from land acknowledgement statements, to mascots, to the histories of using Native American remains in anthropology. Organized around the premise of the Trickster Academy, a university space run by, and meant for training Tricksters, this collection…

A variety of measures have examined whether animals have selves, and what kinds of selves they might be. The most commonly mentioned measures are tests involving mirror self-recognition. I will discuss the various animals that have been tested via mirrors as well as other measures of the self in animals, focusing on the sensorial basis of self-perception. The findings from various tests of…

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In his forthcoming book, Animals and Capital, Professor Wadiwel explores how an understanding of the value structure of our prevailing economic system is important for comprehending the rise of industrial agriculture and the evolution in human animal relations which followed. Capitalist agriculture reflects a biopolitical process of transforming…

Among the multitudes of free-living insects closely associated with insects, there has arguably been no more constant human companion than the aptly named house fly Musca domestica L. As humans have modified their living spaces over time, house flies have readily colonized them; in turn, as the nature of the relationship between humans and house flies has changed, based in part on the…

This presentation offers an example of a recent digital humanities project that used performance studies approaches to bring scholarly research on human-equine interdependence in urban history to a general public audience. An original, full-length documentary film, The Pull of Horses in Urban American Performance, 1860-1920, played at life-sized scale at the center of a library…

Scholars in the varied fields of animal studies are often driven by desires to connect with nonhuman animals, to understand and speak for beings without human language, and to persuade humans to think and act from a multi-species ethics of care. Connecting publicly engaged research and teaching practices with animal studies offers one set of strategies for such activist academics. This…

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Miki Orihara was 18 years old when she arrived in New York to study with Martha Graham, in whose company she performed from 1987 to 2015, eventually as a highly acclaimed principal dancer. Along the way she received a Bessie Award and Dance Magazine called her “the kind of Graham dancer who comes along once in a decade.” She has performed on Broadway and in films and with many other…