Two evenings of Critical Animal Studies events in Peterborough, Presented by the Animal Equity Society at Trent University

***Both events begin at 7 pm.***

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Monday, October 28th
Maximum Tolerated Dose Screening at Artspace
PWYC

Maximum Tolerated Dose is the first feature-length documentary by Decipher Films. Equal parts found-footage mash-up, verité investigation, and artful meditation, the film charts the lives of both humans and non-humans who have experienced animal testing first-hand, with hauntingly honest testimony of scientists and lab technicians whose ethics demanded they choose a different path, as well as the simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking stories of animals who have seen both sides of the cage. MTD aims to re-ignite the debate about animal testing by bringing these rarely-heard perspectives to the fore.

more info: http://maximumtolerateddose.org/


Tuesday, October 29thLecture by Dr. Lauren Corman, Professor of Sociology (Critical Animal Studies) at Brock University
TRAILL COLLEGE, SCOTT HOUSE, ROOM 105

Silence Fiction: Voice, Resistance, and Animal Politics 

This presentation draws on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonialist, and other liberation-based movements and theories to articulate an approach to animal advocacy that foregrounds agency and resistance. As intersectional analyses are (and should be) increasingly centralized, the move to connect human and animal oppressions is enhanced by representations beyond victimhood and voicelessness. Unfortunately, in part, animals remain strangely erased in coalitional activism that fails to acknowledge the complexity of their lives. Field research on animals' cultures, sociality, and emotionality helps shift this framework. Lessons from a diversity of liberation movements also significantly strengthen such efforts.

"The Japanese public was touched by whale song in a manner far deeper than the Americans, perhaps because whaling was much more relevant to their culture... When he met Kota Hoketsu, chairman of the board of one of the biggest whaling concerns, [whale researcher Scott McVay] played him the song. Hoketsu shook his head solemnly and whispered, 'We didn't know. We didn't know.' He pledged to play the song at the company's next board meeting... Without the effect of [Songs of the Humpback Whale] record on millions of people who heard it, there might never have arisen a movement to save the whales...." - David Rothenberg

Third meeting!!

Hey Everyone, 

The next meeting will be on Tuesday October 15th at 7pm in the LEC Pit 

directions to the LEC pit: LEC Pit

go to step 10 and its the door to the left

This meeting we will be discussing what Animal Rights mean to each of us, so bring a definition and we will discuss them all and come up with what works for us as a group! 

we will also me planning upcoming events and watching a related movie/documentary. 

Here is also a link to the facebook event page: event page

I also thought maybe you guys would like this :) 

This kid knows what its all about!! Its a Video on facebook