BOOK EVENT: The Ethics of Saving Animals

Posted on February 11, 2022 by Thayer Hastings

The Ethics of Saving Animals: A Conversation between Elan Abrell and Lori Gruen

25 February 2022, 12:00PM EST

Elan Abrell, author of Animal Sanctuaries: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care, will be joined by author and professor, Lori Gruen, director of Animal Studies at Wesleyan University, to discuss the meaning of care and the many ethical dilemmas faced by caregivers in captive animal sanctuaries.

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BOOK EVENT: Movement of the People: Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism and Citizenship

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Thayer Hastings

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BOOK EVENT: Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Thayer Hastings

18 November 2021, 1PM EST (NYC), 8PM SAST (Johannesburg)

Online event, register here.

Please join author Trevor Ngwame as he discusses his book Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements with Peter Hitchcock and Ashley Dawson.

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BOOK EVENT: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Thayer Hastings

PALESTINE IS THROWING A PARTY AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS INVITED: CAPITAL AND STATE BUILDING IN THE WEST BANK

Thursday 23 September 2021: 1-2:30PM ET, 6-7:30PM UK, 8-9:30PM Palestine
Register here and join on Facebook.

Join Mezna Qato (University of Cambridge), David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center), and Kareem Rabie (University of Illinois, Chicago) in conversation about Rabie’s new book Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited (Duke University Press 2021).