“Species Problem” with Harriet Ritvo, MIT

YALE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, ANIMAL ETHICS STUDY GROUP

The category of species has always provoked debate within the community of experts. Its definition has also had implications for the way that other animal kinds (and kinds of other animals) have been understood and treated outside that community. Such overlapping categories as “domesticated” and “wild” have been particularly problematic. Please join us for the first Animal Ethics lecture of the academic year. We are honored to host Dr. Ritvo, an accomplished historian and professor. Her articles and reviews on British cultural history, environmental history, and the history of human-animal relations have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including The London Review of Books, Science, Daedalus, The American Scholar, Technology Review, and The New York Review of Books, as well as scholarly journals in several fields. Her current research concerns wildness and domestication.

Cosponsored with Yale Environmental History.