LLC45: Animal Studies

Collaborative Goals

The only multi-university animal studies network in the United States, this working group aims to create and sustain opportunities for intellectual dialogue, discipline-building, and peer support among scholars in and around the central New York region who study human-animal relationships In our first year, we discussed the past, present, and future of animal studies through a day-long reading group of recent scholarship and a workshop based around writing-in-progress. Programming in our second year will center on a hybrid lecture series dedicated to the theme of “Living with Animals,” inviting leading-edge thinkers to the area to stimulate continued innovation in the field.

We are made up of 45 members: 36 from 8 Corridor institutions and 9 members from 7 non-Corridor institutions. Our members range from PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to assistant, associate, and full professors. We work across the humanities, including anthropology, geography, history, English, gender & sexuality studies, environmental studies, and architectural theory and practice, among others. Our topical, historical, and regional interests are equally diverse.