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Dr. Barbara J. King: “How Animals Grieve”, Barbara J. King
Dr. Barbara J. King: “How Animals Grieve”, Barbara J. King
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Originally scheduled to appear during the 2013-14 season, Dr. Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and science writer at the College of William and Mary. Her latest book How Animals Grieve reflects her keen interest in animal emotion and cognition. King contributes weekly to NPR.org’s 13.7 Cosmos and Culture blog and writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement. At home in Virginia, she and her husband care for rescued cats.
Dr. Jeannie Ludlow: “Undue Burdens And Personal Responsibility: Literary Pregnancy And Abortion In The Post-Choice Decade In The United States”, Jeannie Ludlow
Dr. Jeannie Ludlow: “Undue Burdens And Personal Responsibility: Literary Pregnancy And Abortion In The Post-Choice Decade In The United States”, Jeannie Ludlow
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Dr. Ludlow is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Women’s Studies. Her research interests include representations of abortion and reproduction in contemporary literature and writing, abortion discourse, and activist pedagogy. Exploring author Julia Alvarez’s claim that there are truths that “can only finally be understood by fiction, only finally be redeemed by the imagination,” her presentation is about the power of the humanities to redeem complex truths in a transitional historical moment in U.S. reproductive rights.