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Professor Nicole Shukin will discuss how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures at this specific historical juncture.

Nicole Shukin is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, and member of the interdisciplinary graduate program in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT). She specializes in Canadian Literature, cultural studies (with a focus on theories of biopower, animal studies, and the politics of nature), and poststructuralist, (post)Marxist, and posthumanist theory. She is author of Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitcal Times.

Presented by the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. To join the Environmental Humanities listserve: please email corey.byrnes@northwestern.edu or keith.woodhouse@northwestern.edu

This event is made possible by generous support from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and English; the Programs in Asian Studies and Environmental Policy and Culture; and the Asian Studies Graduate Cluster.