The Department of Sociology, Presidency University is happy to present the eighth of our book talk-discussions on April 20, 7 pm IST (2.30 pm BST) Dr. Radhika Govindrajan (University of Washington) will talk about her book, Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo28301734.html) The book will be discussed by Prof. Amita Baviskar (Ashoka University), and Dr. Nayanika MathurContinue reading “Book Discussion ‘Animal Intimacies’”
Category Archives: Book Launch
New Book: Privileged Horses: The Italian Renaissance Court Stable
Privileged Horses: The Italian Renaissance Court Stable Sarah G Duncan ‘A pioneering study of equine culture from c.1450-1600’ Published November 2020 – Stephen Morris Publishing EQUINE CULTURE AND SCIENCE, RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, POWER + POLITICS, ARCHITECTURE + ART, Borso d’Este’s retinue, when he travelled to Rome in 1471 for his investiture as Duke of Ferrara comprised 700 lavishlyContinue reading “New Book: Privileged Horses: The Italian Renaissance Court Stable”
Book Launch: Loving Animals: Reflections on Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love
You are invited to Joanna Bourke’s launch of her new book “Loving Animals: Reflections on Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love” (Reaktion Books). It explores one of the last taboos, drawing on queer theory, post-human philosophy, and the history of the senses. Monday 9th November between 6pm and 7pm. Join here https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/loving-animals and, on the 9th, get 20%Continue reading “Book Launch: Loving Animals: Reflections on Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love”
A Roundtable on Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India,1820–1909 (Cambridge, 2017).
Imperial and World History Seminar, University of London. A Roundtable on Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India,1820–1909 (Cambridge, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316771617 February 26th 2017. Discussants: Clare Anderson (Leicester), Richard Drayton (KCL), Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge). Meetings are on Mondays at 5.15pm in Wolfson RoomContinue reading “A Roundtable on Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India,1820–1909 (Cambridge, 2017).”
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