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...
Jack Halberstam (English, University of Southern California) April 25, 2013 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater In a new book on “The Wild” Halberstam turns to anarchist thought to elaborate a queer politics for this particular moment of crisis and renewal. As many thinkers have proposed recently,...
Conveners Peter Alagona, History alagona@history.ucsb.edu Chloe Diamond-Lenow, Feminist Studies cdiamondlenow@umail.ucsb.edu Russell Samolsky, English rsamolsky@english.ucsb.edu This RGF brings the myriad work emerging in the growing field of animal and posthumanist studies together in its diversity. We are talking across disciplinary boundaries- science, social science, and humanities- drawing on disciplines including philosophy, biology, feminist...