Beastly Love

What is beastly love, you ask?
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Taxidermy and Art
Beaty Biodiversity Museum

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia is a newly open research centre and museum focusing on all thing natural and all things naturally diverse.
Read more about the museum here +

Ravishing Beasts Exhibition
THE BREATHLESS ZOO IS COMING!

My book The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing is due out in July. Check it out here: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05372-1.html

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EVENT: Animals in Art Symposium

DateMonday, October 26, 2009 at 03:20PM | CommentPost a Comment | |

Indiana University Bloomington will host an open-to-the-public mini-symposium titled "Representing Animals in Art" as part of "Themester 2009: Evolution, Diversity and Change," the university's inaugural themed semester and a project of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The two-day event will be presented by Art and Environment (Institute for Advanced Study New Knowledge Seminar) on the Bloomington campus Oct. 29-30.

The symposium begins Thursday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m. with a talk by Rosamond Purcell who will speak on "Holding the Line Between Treasure and Trash." Purcell is a world-renowned photographer, whose most recent book of photographs, Egg & Nest, was a Slate Best Book of the Year. See her books here +

I will be speaking on Friday, October 30th as will Alan Braddock, an assistant professor at Temple University.  

Read more about the symposium here + http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12281.html

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