Bringing Academia and Community Activism together for Animal Liberation
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
7PM to 9PM
Brentwood Community Center, 2505 South Brentwood
Brentwood, Missouri
Join St. Louis Animal Rights Team (START) for a lecture by Laura Shields of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) next week. Laura will being discussing the discipline of Critical Animal Studies and ways to bring activism into academia.
Laura Shields, Assistant Editor and Interview/Dialogue Editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies earned a B.A. from Willamette University in History and Spanish and is currently a doctoral student in American Studies at Saint Louis University. Her academic interests include: human-nonhuman animal interactions in culture, gender and sexuality, environmental history and prison studies. She has presented at several conferences including the International “Gender, Animals and Society” conference at Uppsala University in Sweden. She holds a certificate in University Teaching Skills and teaches a Middle Eastern dance class to young women in a St. Louis detention center. Laura lives in St. Louis city with her feline friends, Emmett and Ota, and her human partner, Matt.
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