Events
Thursday June 9, 2011:
“Hybrids & Chimeras, Real & Imagined: Crossing Forbidden Boundaries in the Animal Kingdom”
4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell (HEC) Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
A Lecture by Dr. Doug Antczak (A&S ’69), the Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine at Cornell’s Baker Institute for Animal Health. Hear Dr. Doug Antczak explore the relationship between humans and animals in the context of selective breeding and genetic engineering. He will explain how these processes have put evolution on ‘fast forward’ for several domesticated species, and how they are thus bringing Myth closer to Reality, and vice versa.
Reception and viewing of the “Animal Legends” exhibition to follow:
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., Hirshland Gallery, Kroch Library, Level 2B
Opening lecture, Friday, March 4, 2011:
5 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
“Love, Paradise, and the Rise of the Animal in English Literature”
Laura Brown, John Wendell Anderson Professor of English & Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Reception immediately following:
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Hirshland Gallery, Level 2B, Carl A. Kroch Library