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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Join us
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Friday October 13, 2-4 pm</b> in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
Tea Room</b> for a the inaugural session of the Environment, Energy, and the Anthropocene Reading Group:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Early Modern Capital Punishment of Animals—Human Rights Implications
of the Legal Status of Animals </span></b></p>
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"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Recently popularized by the BBC and Wired Magazine,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals</i> by E. P. Evans was controversial in 1906 for juxtaposing animal trials and human torture to reconsider the inhumane treatment of animals.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The work sensationalizes and conflates the early modern legal and religious courts while glossing over the complexities of period and geography and the respective differences in ritual, superstition, exorcism, and trial.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>However the accounts Evans described are well documented in primary historical sources—numerous animals were called for a hearing before an entity with jurisdiction and they were sometimes given defense representation, of sorts. Servants, neighbors,
and owners then delivered testimony against a creature that was often sentenced to death--usually by hanging--for committing a crime against a human. On April 18, 1499, a pig was tried before the Bailiff of the Abbey of Josaphat in the Commune of Seves and
sentenced to the gallows for the murder of an infant.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>One month later, the bailiff of the Abbey of Beaupre sentenced a bull to death for killing a fourteen year old boy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Even economically valuable animals like oxen and horses could be sentenced to death, though usually for repeated crimes if the owner brought forward a strong defense on behalf of the animal. Evans’ book reflects a wave of mid and nineteenth century writings
on animal criminology and animal trials, and this session aims to foster a more serious investigation of a historical body of literature that has recently become trendy through the rediscovery of a few select works.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>What does the structure of medieval and early modern animal trials, as well as the late nineteenth century and millennial studies of this topic, tell us about the moral and social status of non-human and the structure of culpability, criminal liability,
and the court trial? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">How to find the Tea Room</span></b><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Enter the Social Science Research Building, walk upstairs to floor 2, take a left.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Primary Reading Selections (see links and attached PDF):<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">E. P. Evans (1987) [1906]
<i>The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1-5 (image 11-15); 140-168 (image 150-178); p
</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">335-361 (<i>image 344 – 370</i>)<i> </i>
contains clips from manuscripts and historical sources<i>)</i></span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Full text available online:
</span><a href="https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/5694626"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/5694626</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Optional Readings:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Matt Simon (September 14, 2014) "Fantastically Wrong: Europe's Insane History of Putting Animals on Trial
And Executing Them," <i>Wired Magazine</i>.<br>
Full text available online:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-bidi">
</span><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-europes-insane-history-putting-animals-trial-executing/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-europes-insane-history-putting-animals-trial-executing/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Frances Fyfield (March 15, 2011) “Animals on Trial,”
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">BBC World Service</i> </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f8885"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f8885</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Patrick Phillips (2012)
<i>Medieval Animal Trials: Justice for All</i>.<br>
Full text available online: </span><a href="https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/11159742"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/11159742</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Join us for wine, cheese, and great conversation every other week on Friday from 2 to 4 pm in the Social Science Tea Room, unless otherwise
noted.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Join us at the Pub for happy hour after most sessions for a pitcher on the house.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
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normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Environment, Energy, and the Anthropocene Reading Group </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Autumn Schedule</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Social Science Tea Room</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">2–4:00 PM (unless otherwise noted)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Friday October 13, </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">2–4:00 PM</i>—Early Modern Capital Punishment of Animals: Human Rights Implications of the Legal Status of Animals
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Reading Session: Amy Coombs, Moderator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Friday October 27<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">,
</i></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">2–4:00 PM</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">—“Concerning
the Transmutation and Improvements of Plants: Vitalism, Alchemy, and Cornucopianism in John Beale's Agricultural Writings” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Presentation by:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Justin Niermeier-Dohoney, PhD Candidate, History (University of Chicago)<br>
<br>
<b>Wednesday</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> November 8, </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">4:30–6</span> PM</i>—Plant Xenophobia: Ethical Debates Concerning the Rhetoric of Invasive Species<br>
Reading Session: Amy Coombs, Moderator </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
<b>Wednesday</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> November 15, </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">4:30–6 PM</span></i>—"Environment and the U.S. Security State," Presentation by:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Joseph Masco, Professor of Anthropology (University of Chicago)<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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"Times New Roman"">Wednesday November 30,
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normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">4:30-6 PM</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">—<i>
</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Imagining Extinction<i>: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species,</i></span> Reading Session: Blair Bainbridge, Moderator </span></p>
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