Calendar of Campus Events
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July 2008
Accelerating the Assimilation of Science into Policies Affecting Elephants in Captivity
Date: Monday, July 7, noon-3:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: Lisa Kane, Animals & Society Institute Research-in-Residence Fellow, Michigan State University; Paul Waldau, Center for Animals and Public Policy, Tufts University
Topic To Be Announced
Date: Monday, July 7, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: Robin Queen and Andrei S. Markovits, University of Michigan
Organizing and Managing Social Change for Companion Animals: One County's Story
Date: Tuesday, July 8, noon-3:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: Francis Hamilton, Animals & Society Institute Research-in-Residence Fellow, Michigan State University; Bernard Unti, Humane Society of the United States
Media Representations of the 2007 "Pet" Food Recall: The Attribution and Construction of Victimhood and Corporate Responsibility
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: Amy Fitzgerald, Animals & Society Institute Research-in-Residence Fellow, Michigan State University; Elizabeth Cherry, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
The Ranching Lifestyle: Producing Cattle, Gender, and the Environment
Date: Wednesday, July 9, noon-3:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: Colter Ellis, Animals & Society Institute Research-in-Residence Fellow, Michigan State University; Lori Gruen, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Wesleyan University
Xenotransplantation and Black Market Organs: Shared Mortality as a Basis for Concern
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: David Dillard-Wright, Animals & Society Institute Research-in-Residence Fellow, Michigan State University; Ralph Acampora, Philosophy Department, Hofstra University
Walking with Wildness: Dogs and What They Can Teach Us About Living on an Endangered Earth
Date: Thursday, July 10, noon-3:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: Karla Armbruster, Animals & Society Institute Research-in-Residence Fellow, Michigan State University; Carrie Rohman, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown
Enviropig?: A Biotechnological Fix to the Industrial Pork Provisioning System's Regulatory Problems
Date: Thursday, July 10, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: MSU College of Law Board Room
Speakers: Jon Clark, Animals & Society Institute Research-in-Residence Fellow, Michigan State University; Susan McHugh, Department of English, University of New England
Collaborative Solutions for Reducing Phosphorus in Agricultural and Urban Watersheds
Date: Thursday, July 10, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: MSU Kellogg Center, Lincoln Room
Speaker: Multiple Speakers
September 2008
Michigan's Changing Landscape
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Location: Kellogg Biological Station Education Center Auditorium on Gull Lake
Speaker: Randall Schaetzl, Department of Geography, Michigan State University
Series: Dessert with Discussion
Human Health Risks to Low-Level Radiation
Date: Tuesday, September 30, noon-4:00 p.m.
Location: 162 Food Safety and Toxicology Building
October 2008
Topic To Be Announced
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 8:30 p.m.
Location: Kellogg Biological Station Education Center Auditorium on Gull Lake
Speaker: Wendy Powers, Director of Environmental Stewardship for Animal Agriculture, Departments of Animal Science and Biosystems Engineering, Michigan State University
Series: Dessert with Discussion
Dioxin Toxicity: Mechanisms, Models, and Potential Health Risks
Date: Monday, October 20, and Tuesday, October 21
Location: Kellogg Center
Series: MSU Center for Integrative Toxicology Superfund Program
