Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene

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Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene

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Workshop I: World – War – Zoo
- Keynote: Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, “Berlin Zoo under the Sign of the Swastika: Animals, Ideology, and the Politics of Memory”
Workshop II: Captivity – Captivation – Observation
- Keynote: Lori Gruen, “Challenging Disposability”
- Keynote: Thijs de Zeeuw, “ZOOOF, or: How to Design a Voluntary Zoo?”
Workshop III: Extinction – Conservation – Resurrection?
- Keynote: Susan McHugh, “(Xeno)pregnant Endings and (Zoo)beginnings in Contemporary Fiction”
- Keynote: Juno Salazar Parreñas, “The Price of Proliferation”
Workshop IV: Exhibition – Curation – Decolonization
- Keynote: Louise Green, “A Zoo and Its Public: The Short Life and Slow Decline of a Colonial Menagerie”
- Keynote: Ayesha Keshani, Notes Towards a Cosmopolitical Museology, in and around the Sarawak Museum

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Kinder, John. “Zoo Animals and Modern War: Captive Casualties, Patriotic Citizens, and Good Soldiers.”

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Posted on 20/02/2020 by Karlijn Herforth
in: Type: Europe. Keywords: captivity, nationalism and violence. Author: Kinder.

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