Meat & Sympathy: the Uses of the Past
I'm very pleased to have attended the Shakespeare Association in Vancouver this month, where I was part of a pair of seminars on animals...
Animals in the Shakespearean Archive
Our seminar at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America explored “animal encounters” in Shakespearean archives....
Animal Encounters: A PH Collaboration for Shakespeare Association 2015
Weasels, mad from rue, battling basilisks; a dragon, slain in Sussex; a dog, urinating on a farthingale; a deer, slaughtered by a...
Performance Animals Revisited, or "What is Modernity for Animals & Us"
In 2012, Performing Humanity hosted work by Dr. Susan Nance on the history of circus performance animals. In light of today's...
Event Spotlight: A Night With Lucy at NHMLA
In honor of the 40 year anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, the Natural History Museum of LA hosted an evening with paleoanthropologist...
Connecting Animal & Female Anatomies
By Dr. Allen Shotwell The Man & His (Hybrid) Text In 1545, the French physician Charles Estienne published his De dissectione partium...