SEM A19, 16/06/2025 : “Kyla Tompkins (University at Buffalo), Dana Luciano (Rutgers University) and Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison) // Literature, Science and Race in the Nineteenth Century”

Program

Université Paris Cité, Olympe de Gouges Building, Room 830

10:00-12:00: The Matter of Nineteenth-Century Studies: A Conversation between Dana Luciano and Kyla Tompkins.

Dana and Kyla would like to share the introduction to How the Earth Feels and the introduction and chapter 1 of Deviant Matter in advance of the seminar (the document password will be emailed to A19 participants – please use the contact button on the homepage if you don’t receive it).

14:00-15:00: Animal Humanism: Species, Race, and Humanity in the Long Nineteenth Century: Brigitte Fielder (Wisconsin-Madison)

Brigitte would like to share the following material, which we would remind participants not to circulate further:

• Introduction to Animal Humanisms
• Chapter 5 from Animal Humanisms

A Zoom link will be available here before the event.