Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Thursday, January 23 / 6:00 PM
Feminist Studies Seminar Room, South Hall

The HumAnimality RFG will host a discussion of Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect.  We will consider how Chen draws on queer, critical race and affect theory to contribute to and push the boundaries of of critical animal studies.  Please email Chloe Diamond-Lenow (cdiamondlenow@umail.ucsb.edu) for a pdf of the reading.

Sponsored by IHC’s HumAimality Research Focus Group
Website: http://humanimalityrfg.wordpress.com/