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Call for Participants: Workshop IV: Exhibition – Curation – Decolonization
Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene Workshop 4: Exhibition – Curation – Decolonization 10–12 November, 2021 Utrecht University, Netherlands [Online ...
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‘De ark van Noach staat in brand’
Onze literaire erfenis legt een behoefte aan nieuwe mens-dierrelaties bloot Literatuurwetenschapper Kári Driscoll ziet onze relatie met de planeet langzaam ...
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National Geographic Profile
In February, I was interviewed for National Geographic about my research into the figure of the Zoo in the Anthropocene: “Through mass-extinction and ...
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Online Lecture: Zoo-break narratives
This coming Wednesday, 27 May, I will be speaking to the members of SV Euphorion, the Utrecht University Literary Studies students’ association, about my ...
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An Inconvenient Conference
I will be speaking at the annual RMA History Graduate Student Conference, which is entitled “An Inconvenient Conference? — Interdisciplinary and New ...
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Workshop 3 postponed due to COVID-19
The third and final Reading Zoos workshop was due to be held on April 1–3. In light of the rapidly escalating coronavirus situation, the workshop has been ...
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Call for Participants: Workshop III: “Extinction – Conservation – Resurrection”
Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene Workshop 3: Extinction – Conservation – Resurrection 1–3 April, 2020 Utrecht University, Netherlands In the ...
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Talk on Zoos and Zoopoetics in Frankfurt
On 27 November, I will be giving a talk on zoos and zoopoetics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt entitled “‘Das Zeugnis einer innerlichen ...
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Lecture on Zoos in Wartime at Goldsmiths
On 5 December, I will be giving a lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the Department of Visual Cultures’ autumn 2019 public programme, ...
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Call for Participants: Workshop “Captivity/Escape”
Following the first workshop on “War/Memory” as part of the research project Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene, the second workshop ...