Germanic Languages and Literatures

Friday, July 18, 2025

• • 2:00 - 3:30 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039

  The Evolution of Animal Advocacy: Alternative Strategies to Achieve Animal Welfare Advances

  Chris Green discusses the creative strategies developed by animal advocacy organizations to effect change in public policy. This talk is part of the 7th annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039

  The Nineteeth-Century Lion Hunt, between Algeria and Paris

  Professor Hornstein considers the lion hunt as both a convention of European painting as well as a political motif that was directly related to French colonial expansion in North Africa, especially in the decades after the 1830 conquest. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Rm 210

  Climate Change and the Urgency of Hope, Action, and Joy

  Professor Reyes Mason's presentation is grounded in a belief that our collective work on climate change can indeed lead to a healthier and thriving world for all in the midst of disaster and devastation, from our own backyards to communities across the globe.

  • Lecture