“Cows, Christians, and Cultural Studies”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “Cows, Christians, and Cultural Studies: Forging an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the History of Animal Welfare,” by UT American Studies Professor Janet Davis.

Wednesday, October 3, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Davis, author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top, is writing an interdisciplinary social and cultural history of the animal welfare movement from 1866-1930. Her research interests include American popular culture, American foreign relations, animals, American social movements, working class culture, modern South Asia.