In this talk Antoinette Burton repurposes Samantha Frost’s definition of the biocultural for use in the context of 19th-century British imperial politics. Framing empire itself as biocultural shifts the emphasis from the fiction of humans’ sovereignty toward their interdependence with the nonhuman animal and its habitats. The Victorian “parliament of animals” archive that Burton draws on is a…
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Thursday
Oct
19
Annual Lecture
Antoinette Burton
7:00pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory
Urbana