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People and Animals after 1492
Apr 17

April 17, 2025

People and Animals after 1492

Marcy Norton, an associate professor of History at Penn, explores how ongoing encounters between Indigenous and settler communities in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Amazonia transformed the modern world. During this talk, as part of the Global Discovery Lecture Series presented by Penn Alumni Lifelong Learning, Norton will challenge the idea that treating animals as livestock is a natural and normal way to interact with other creatures. Attendees will be invited to question the notion that animal domestication and husbandry are necessary for cultural progress. Register to attend. 

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Virtual

cows at the penn dining yogurt farm