What is Personhood in Law? Animals, AI, and Corporations
by Visa Kurki • University of Helsinki 12/4/23
Fall 2023
Races of Property: Property Relationships and Divergent Racial Formation
Bethany Berger • University of Connecticut 11/27/23
Transgenic: Re/Making The American Chestnut Tree
Elaine Gan • Wesleyan University • 11/13/23
Thinking Against Empire: Botany and the Environmental Humanities
by Banu Subramaniam • University of Massachusetts, Amherst 11/6/23
Making the Kazakh Qyl-Qobyz: Musical Instrument as Sentient Being
Saida Daukeyeva • Wesleyan University • 10/30/23
Animals as Property, Quasi-Property, or Quasi-Person
Angela Fernandez • University of Toronto • 10/16/23
“A Vagrant and Fugitive Animal”: Race, Ecology, and the Origins of Louisiana Mineral Law
Robin McDowell • Washington University, St. Louis • 10/9/23
The Unconcious Otherwise
Stefania Pandolfo • University of California at Berkeley • 10/02/23
Barzakh as a Paradigm for Life
A. George Bajalia • Wesleyan University • 9/25/23
“Commonwealth Now!”: Envisioning Indigenous Chamorro Self-Determination in a Multicultural Guam
Kristin Oberiano • Wesleyan University • 9/18/23