Event: Taking Animals Apart: Exploring Interspecies Enmeshment in a Biotechnological Era
May 3, 2012
May 31-June 2, 2012
Madison, WI
In our globalized, highly-industrialized society, human and nonhuman animals are enmeshed in surprising and often troubling ways. “Pharm†goats are living factories for the production of pharmaceuticals; honeybees are explosive-detectors in the “War on Terror;†and household pets – clothed and escorted in strollers – have become humanized companions. What do these sorts of enmeshments mean for us and our “human condition†as well as for our non-human animal counterparts? What do they mean for relationships among species?
