Ron Broglio: Animal Studies and the Voice of the Other

[Lori Straus]

Animal Studies and the Voice of the Other


[cid:image002.png at 01D24C89.848A6AA0]Ron Broglio will trace back to the 18th-century sensibility movement contemporary post-humanist ideas of animals having a voice. In his talk, he will pursue what animal studies can push against in terms of the animal “rights” movement.

His publications include:

·         Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor and Animal Life in British Romanticism (forthcoming SUNY 2017)

·         Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press 2011)

·         Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830 (Bucknell 2008)
Ron teaches at Arizona State University. Follow him on Twitter @manimalicious.

Ron's talk is co-sponsored by the UW English Dept and the WCGS research group on "Poetics and Nature circa 1800."


When: Monday, December 5 @ 5:30 PM
Where: HH1108

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Lori Straus
Administrative Assistant
Waterloo Centre for German Studies<https://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/wcgs/>
University of Waterloo<http://uwaterloo.ca/>

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