The Clark – Thinking Species with Shawn Michelle Smith

n this Research and Academic Program lecture, Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Critical Race Theory and Visual Culture Fellow) considers Alison Ruttan’s artwork The Four Year War at Gombe (2009–2011). In light of recent scholarship on multispecies relations, this lecture contemplates the promises and risks of multispecies imaginings while reflecting on what it means to think about species historically and today.

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