SAH Commons | Thierry Buquet | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/tbuquet/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Thierry Buquet is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:47:56 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6e8b5b6df69595bd36003711e85f526e Claudia Hirtenfelder started the topic Upcoming Leadership Program in the forum Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/animal-studies/forum/topic/upcoming-leadership-program/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:42:58 -0500 Hi everyone,

I thought you might be interested in applying for the six-week leadership program to be hosted virtually by the Institute for Universal Health Rights and Justice.

Find out more here: https://www.phoenixzonesinitiative.org/institute-for-universal-rights-health-justice-leadership-program/

]]> 0 043432b5e8800294b9f5551d60317756 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Animal Studies: I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1924443/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:48:14 -0400 I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Oxford: Peter Lang). Please ask your library to order a copy. https://sites.google.com/site/gftague/forest-sovereignty/

]]> 0 6fe97c8416a85c333d542031ff7fc946 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Animal Studies: Humanity's language and nature, an opinion essay. […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908093/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:28:28 -0500 Humanity’s language and nature, an opinion essay. https://www.asebl.net/2025/01/humanitys-language-meditation-on-nature.html

]]> 0 24d62358cb453899af1661eef841e692 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Animal Studies: Under the topic Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy, the […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891565/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:48:57 -0400 Under the topic Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy, the American Philosophical Association has published my essay “The Wildlife State of Gaia.” https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/07/11/the-wildlife-state-of-gaia/

]]> 0 ac76a724ba995c853630fd755830d581 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Animal Studies: We've had new publications in Literary Veganism. Stop by […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891133/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:48:24 -0400 We’ve had new publications in Literary Veganism. Stop by and check it out. http://www.litvegan.net

]]> 0 e9681236036a2b3b807712e59182065c Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited Posthuman citizenship in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866337/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:58 -0500 Citizenship and the posthuman have not been often theorized together. In this paper, I want to think about their coalition both as a new episode in the efforts of politics for citizenship, including knowledge politics, and as a source of rebalancing power against governmental and corporate interests in citizenship politics. Here, I seek to address…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec8386cd8180dbb61624b17815282e44 Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863581/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:36 -0400 This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 f71ae04393e31b7f13f73466de55560b Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Animal Studies: Is there moral justification to eat meat? A video response […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863550/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:16:48 -0400 Is there moral justification to eat meat? A video response by yours truly. https://youtu.be/uwFEqJmbk6E

]]> 0 ec36a0b8eb3431fea5744d48a52ecb8f Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Animal Studies: Nick Zangwill and Peter Godfrey-Smith recently (past year or […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863548/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:14:36 -0400 Nick Zangwill and Peter Godfrey-Smith recently (past year or so) have openly lobbied on behalf of animal agriculture. Here’s an open letter/short article that seems to get to the heart of the matter defending animals and the environment, if anyone is interested. https://www.asebl.net/2023/07/an-open-letter-to-peter-godfrey-smith.html

]]> 0 ee3cf7155db53d6f3c6e5ba5d3b8c4a6 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Animal Studies: For those interested, why not visit Literary Veganism, an […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863540/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:10:28 -0400 For those interested, why not visit Literary Veganism, an online journal, at http://www.litvegan.net

]]> 0 1c4660fd7541b170e0f02a651e8ce73c Martin Boehnert deposited Methodologische Signaturen : Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Erforschung des Geistes von Tieren in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834431/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:24:24 -0500 How do we know if animals can think? In extension of the previous debate on human-animal relations, this book analyzes the conditions and contexts of the scientific acquisition of our knowledge of animals. The current discussions within animal philosophy revolve around the three central questions of whether we can attribute a mind to animals, what…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffad7b2dd9e0e394ca9b0089696073cd Martin Boehnert deposited Grundzüge einer Philosophie der Tierforschung in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834427/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:23:38 -0500 In current debates about the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, knowledge about animals is often adopted from the sciences. However, this largely ignores the fact that relationships of this kind also exist in empirical animal research and that these constellations between researchers and the researched have both ethical and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d383003c48888ef8eb943f1ba4e4822 Martin Boehnert deposited When Controversies Flare Up, Matters-of-Fact Become Matters-of-Concern in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834251/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:24:33 -0500 Animal welfare and animal rights issues have reached the curricula, agendas and priorities of a wide range of educational institutions and initiatives. Their actors are faced with the challenge of not only explaining the relevance of animal ethics and animal rights, but also conceptualising how to teach them: How can animal protection and animal…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c074b5c34df1297bed018142d2aab07 Jean Marie Carey deposited Exhibition and Catalogue: Eden and Everything After in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830078/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:35:24 -0500 Announcement for the opening of the exhibition “Eden and Everything After” at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.

]]> 0 ee86927a8046bc07986cecc5fd8d39c1 Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816647/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:24:16 -0400 Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 89b2bab4156a64499dba801ed4d634ab Sander Govaerts created the doc Biodiversity in the Late Middle Ages: Wild Birds in the Fourteenth-Century County of Holland. in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792311/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:12:33 -0400 0 c10d11eb0a04276a328835ed3efad254 Sander Govaerts deposited Wolves and Warfare in the History of the Low Countries, 1000-1800 in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789029/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:24:45 -0400 The connection between warfare and an increased wolf presence or even wolf attacks is a recurrent theme in European narrative sources. Many historical studies have also commented on the widespread belief in this connection and suggested that armed conflicts instigated a breakdown of the standard wolf-human relationship. In peacetime, wolves…[Read more]

]]> 0 20474d5f03902e5cea30742cd566071f Sander Govaerts deposited Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789026/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:24:30 -0400 Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe’s Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0fd7e0f32bf6fd92fe41e0bd648e98f Sander Govaerts created the doc Wolves and Warfare in the History of the Low Countries, 1000-1800 in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788941/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:55:53 -0400 0 128281d3bed63acaa29577554c9da955 Les Mitchell deposited Reading the animal text in the landscape of the damned in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783614/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:23:53 -0400 This is about the social construction of nonhuman animals and our oppressive relationship with them. It is about texts and animals, as well as such things as feminism, history, racism, mass violence, animal farming, animal experimentation……well a whole lot of things! It seeks to understand our normalization of violence against nonhuman animals…[Read more]

]]> 0 762333e8bc69b5e1d16ba749af5215fb Jean Marie Carey deposited Invitation for Catalogue Contribution: Eden and Everything After in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771056/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:23:38 -0500 In a groundbreaking endeavour to triangulate three important traditions of our collective cultural heritage, the Arkeologisk Museum of the University of Stavanger presents Eden and Everything After, a conceptual exhibition organised around notions of the loss of – and slim hope of reconnection with – the lost paradise. Mirroring the boldly exp…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce453b56b5af6698cb8e02cd06c0a6f4 Claudia Hirtenfelder deposited Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758832/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:23:53 -0500 In 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows’ and goats’ milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal – and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada – is underpinned by a series…[Read more]

]]> 0 09852e68b4310a6419030835698a05d9 Jean Marie Carey deposited "Anna Ridler: A Contemporary Tulipmania" in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749868/ Tue, 24 Aug 2021 02:23:38 -0400 An interview with artist Anna Ridler for Antennae’s “Visual Entanglements” series.

]]> 0 4d8ca66ba38351160eaecdfed2d225fa Rodrigo Ponciano Ojeda deposited “What a Beast Man Is”: Animals in Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721285/ Sat, 02 Jan 2021 02:23:45 -0500 I examine the anthropocentric and sentimentalist views present in the representation of animals in Laurence Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” and “A Sentimental Journey”, and I demonstrate how the fluctuations between these two perspectives undermines the traditional barrier we place between animals and ourselves, and encourages us to assume a more crit…[Read more]

]]> 0 a337cb3e469ac3305b94b49fbc9183ca paul bali deposited ONT: lates and xtras in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705411/ Sat, 15 Aug 2020 02:23:40 -0400 contents

i. re Gödel’s ontological argument
ii. deep in pi’s numeric noise
iii. from Nothing, something
iv. endless in the wrong direction, tragic
v. they give you all Eternity to answer
vi. what of God’s mercy?
vii. informed consent and prayer
viii. i won’t live on, perhaps. a deed i’ve done may
ix. my selective memory
x. Janus…[Read more]

]]> 0 46549c0767bb61119e38e8435f16ae0a Jonathan Basile deposited Kant's Parasite: Sublime Biodeconstruction in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679161/ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:25:22 -0500 In Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]

]]> 0 55580f0f6091784c4e98b2178e1f8277 Jonathan Basile deposited How the Other Half-Lives: Life as Identity and Difference in Bennett and Schrödinger in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666829/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:26:42 -0400 This essay deconstructs Jane Bennett’s and Erwin Schrödinger’s theories of life to demonstrate the untenability of defining life on the basis of either identity (relation to self) or difference (relation to other). Because the living thing is undecidably self and other, its traditional bond to the self-relation of teleology is untenable. Yet reli…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3c0a6ac9873e190a79f6fb754a4ead3 Scout Calvert deposited Ready for the Robot: Bovines in the Integrated Circuit in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641772/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:38:31 -0400 A typical cow on Earth at the turn of the 21st century is figured as an information-generating machine. She generates data from the time she is born, at every developmental milestone, with the birth, growth, and death of each of her calves, including birth, weaning, and yearling weight, calving ease, and feeding data that help farmers compute…[Read more]

]]> 0 4045b8054e8063fb1a8ced65f278baad Helen Kopnina deposited Wild Animals and Justice: The Case of the Dead Elephant in the Room in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636539/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:35:07 -0400 Discussing ecological justice in conservation and environmental ethics.

]]> 0 1521bd850ced146d5038ece40f24d971 Amy Nelson deposited What the dogs did: animal agency in the Soviet manned space flight programme in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624564/ Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:25:22 -0500 This paper examines the agency of the dogs used to develop the Soviet manned space flight programme by considering what the dogs did as experimental subjects, as dog technologies, and as individual dogs in the context of the historically conditioned practices of Soviet science. Looking at how Soviet space researchers refined Pavlovian behaviourism…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0958e7cd9a12e835292dfce4c58bd09 Jean Marie Carey deposited Bill Viola: Life After Death at Stavanger Kunstmuseum in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622761/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:25:21 -0400 A review of the Bill Viola exhibition at the Stavanger Kunstmuseum including Man Searching For Immortality / Woman Searching for Eternity (2013) and Tristan’s Ascension (2005) in conversation.

]]> 0 5c50e84f125804d447c6d0e27be66336 Raluca Farcas started the topic Dissertation Research! in the discussion Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/animal-studies/forum/topic/dissertation-research/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:14:52 -0400 Good afternoon,
My name is Raluca Farcas and I am an Illustration student at Birmingham City University, UK. I am currently working on my dissertation which revolves around the symbolism of birds in art through centuries and up to the present day and also questions the relationship between humans and birds and how that affected the way they were…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d82b9847da1991232ff577d43519f4c Jeannette Vaught deposited A Question of Sex: Cloning, Culture, and Legitimacy Among American Quarter Horses in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1619175/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:25:23 -0400 Quarter Horses are considered one of the earliest and most enduringly popular breeds of horse that is “native” to the United States.

The American Quarter Horse Association formed as a breed registry in 1940, and set clear rules for what horses could be called Quarter Horses in its stud book. Recently, after several years of legal bac…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6dbfd40d81426d1ebcab983e04810c1 Martin Boehnert deposited "Other minds than ours" – A controversial discussion on the limits and possibilities of comparative psychology in the light of Lloyd Morgan's work in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615192/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:33:21 -0400 C. Lloyd Morgan is mostly known for Morgan’s canon (1894), still a popular and frequently quoted principle in comparative psychology and ethology. There has been a fair amount of debate on the canon’s interpretation, function, and value regarding the research on animal minds, usually referring to it as an isolated principle. In this paper we…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b5549a5e173e8f239eb53929ee4eed8 Jonathan L. Clark deposited Labourers or Lab Tools? Rethinking the Role of Lab Animals in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615147/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:40:56 -0400 A discussion of whether it makes sense to say that “lab animals” are engaged in a form of labor.

]]> 0 dca84431da75fb6c02c47829910733ea paul bali deposited animal research at DRDC Downsview - a hidden history in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615025/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:43:29 -0400 an overview of military research involving pigs, rats, and rabbits at DRDC Downsview [Toronto], from 2004 -2007.

appendix includes military docs secured thru an ATIP request by Animal Alliance Canada.

]]> 0 d25f2550a39a9ec6c6a8a139d217ac90 paul bali deposited gender & Judaism: in three popular texts in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614987/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:58:46 -0400 gender & Judaism in A Serious Man [Coen Bros, 2009], An American Dream [Norman Mailer, 1965] and the Pericope Adulterae.

]]> 0 199fb4df406f6d4c1998c580501d1214 Jeannette Vaught replied to the topic Animal Studies: Key Readings in the discussion Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/animal-studies/forum/topic/animal-studies-key-readings/#post-14775 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 03:27:07 -0400 Hello Sara!  I’m a fellow HC Summer Camper, a little behind on our second challenge.  I’m glad to see a fellow animalista in the summer camp group!  Are you subscribed to H-Animal?  There’s a lot of excellent discussion there, as well as a wealth of posted syllabi and current books/articles.  It would be great to help get better discussion goin…[Read more]

]]> 0 b96f4482b97d6cc89e5970e6a103d684 Sara Santos started the topic Animal Studies: Key Readings in the discussion Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/animal-studies/forum/topic/animal-studies-key-readings/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:17:26 -0400 Hello everyone!

HCommons novice here and so excited to join the conversation on animal and environmental studies! I’m currently developing my dissertation project, much of which deals with human/nonhuman relationships and environmental collapse in contemporary Global North/South fiction. One thing I’d be interested to know is what are three key…[Read more]

]]> 0 7181bdf12d9492a31e817ae16ae21e76 Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Milieus und Akteure in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609375/ Tue, 29 May 2018 04:13:57 -0400 Die Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bislang die Frage nach dem Geist der Tiere, das Problem des Tier-Mensch-Unterschiedes und die Themenfelder der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet und ergänzt es dur…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e82d9059891a35caa275331cc93cc3e paul bali deposited an ad for devouring everything in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608677/ Fri, 18 May 2018 04:12:25 -0400 carnism & consumerism; eco-apocalypse; product placement; copyright

]]> 0 8f915736a9d22b7e657a0312eac2f790 Jeannette Vaught deposited Materia Medica: Technology, Vaccination, and Antivivisection in Jazz Age Philadelphia in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606780/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:12:27 -0400 During the 1920s, the Philadelphia-based American Antivivisection Society turned to racialized metaphors in its circulating periodical, the Starry Cross, to excoriate the expanding practice of vaccination. Since vaccines were then made from animal-derived serums, the involvement of antivivisectionists in antivaccine arguments is not surprising.…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcbdd7523182ac30b4f0bbfdf965e79e Jeannette Vaught deposited Pageants, Po' Boys, and Pork on a Stick: Documenting the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606457/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 04:13:07 -0400 This photoessay documents the 82nd Annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, which took place in Morgan City, Louisiana over Labor Day weekend in 2018. It contains photographs of the festival, including images of pageant queens, food vendors, and the Blessing of the Fleet. The essay documents the authors’ experience of the festival, and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb2f9652bebeb3ab98e1c14bb6418901 Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Die methodologische Signatur von Forschungsprogrammen in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605690/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 04:13:08 -0400 Die Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]

]]> 0 886d664bd8116d555a20880b3badfd6d Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Kulturelle und ethische Dimensionen methodischer Tier-Mensch-Interaktionen in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605686/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 04:13:04 -0400 Die Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]

]]> 0 e82c3324c2798704b2a7dbd5adf1431f Martin Boehnert deposited Riot Grrrl Primatology – Über Forscherinnen, Feminismus und feministische Wissenschaften in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605386/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:16:42 -0400 Draft Version des Beitrags: In dem vorliegenden Artikel möchten wir der Frage nach den Möglichkeiten eines weiblichen bzw. feministischen Zugangs zu wissenschaftlicher Forschung in verschiedenen Hinsichten beleuchten. Wir werden uns dem Thema exemplarisch anhand des Forschungsfeldes der Primatologie zuwenden, wobei die Antwort auf die Frage, w…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0d6934004fc20fb83c5be9969c22df3 Jonathan L. Clark deposited People Watching: The Sociology of Erving Goffman in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1599000/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:12:28 -0500 Syllabus for an undergraduate course on Erving Goffman.

]]> 0 236fd93ab499ad5c299be5b87028fd96 Jonathan L. Clark deposited Animals & Society in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598998/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:12:27 -0500 A syllabus for an undergraduate animal studies course.

]]> 0 68f0470789b05387672c7c76b73b5169 Matthew Elliott Gillman deposited A Tale of Two Ivories: Elephant and Walrus in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597407/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 04:12:25 -0500 This essay offers a short story about long distance trade during the “global” middle ages. It emerges as a response to two seemingly unrelated puzzles: one, the role of walrus ivory in the Norse Atlantic economy; the other, the origins of a mysterious material known in Arabic sources as khutu. Although debated within distinct specializations, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 57575c862c5409bf843d4be5e14bd08d paul bali deposited literature & rev notes for PHL923 in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596522/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:16:09 -0500 including readings of Joseph McElroy, Tolkien, Norman Rush, Sartre, and others

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