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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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A Proper Insurgency: Animal Study and Interdisciplinary Critique

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: Center for Advanced Study
Location: Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Date: Jul 13, 2025 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Speaker: Sharon Holland
Contact: Center for Advanced Study
E-Mail: cas@cas.illinois.edu
Phone: 217-333-6729
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Originating Calendar: Center for Advanced Study; This presentation draws from Professor Holland's work in the field of Animal Studies over the last two decades. Much of this work, in the feminist tradition, is about praxis--a living with/being with animal life that situations the doing in the ambiguous place between animal/human, structured by that artful, and awful distinction. This talk will be motivated by a series of perhaps uncomfortable questions that might arise if we take it upon ourselves to think through the human at its most capacious. In this sense, we will explore disciplinary boundaries with a healthy bit of skepticism, and reorient our sense of the animal's history.

Cosponsored by: American Indian Studies Program, Department of African American Studies, Department of English

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