Past Events
Explore our past events, many of which you can watch recordings of with closed captions
Lectures & Panels Off-Animals, Creatures of an Exhausted Industrial Capitalism 12-1:30PM
Arching through and beyond Blanchette’s recent book, Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm (2020), this talk outlines an ethnography of these animals to offer new lines of sight onto the waning state of industrial labor and value in Canada and the United States today.
Lectures & Panels Antibiotics in Agriculture: Preventing the Next Pandemic 6-7PM
The growth in intensive confinement of animals in agriculture has led to a resulting increase in the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics to prevent disease in such overcrowded conditions. Help us kick off Antibiotic Awareness Week by joining us for a panel event that will explore how research, collaboration, and policy can encourage better antibiotic stewardship in animal agriculture and human health care.
Lectures & Panels Fireside Chat with Dana Wagner of Impossible Foods 12-1PM
Impossible Foods Chief Legal Officer Dana Wagner in conversation with Animal Law & Policy Program Clinical Instructor Nicole Negowetti.
Lectures & Panels COVID-19 and the Law: Law and Policy to Address Basic Needs and Marginalized Populations 12-1PM
Animal Law & Policy Program Faculty Director Kristen Stilt will join the latest panel of a colloquium series co-hosted by Martha Minow and Emily Broad Leib, which will will explore a range of legal considerations related to the U.S. response to COVID-19 and discuss future implications of the pandemic across several topics, including: destabilization of animal habitats, transmission of zoonotic disease, reflections on developments in the criminal justice system, among others.
