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EFC Lecture: Why Do We Want to Believe in Cross-Species Utopias? - Teresa Mangum, PhD
Nov 14, 2024
04:00 PM
210 Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA 52240
The internet mews, barks, growls, and hisses with alleged evidence of cross-species attachment. These stories — from Genesis to Victorian animal painter Edwin Landseer’s narrative paintings to the latest videos and memes — entice audiences with the promise that we can bridge and bond across species difference. But they also document what it costs animals for humans to be near them.
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