Animals and Humans
2005 Fall Lecture Schedule
- September 13, 2005, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Alastair J. Norscross, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Rice University
“Puppies, Pigs, & People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases”
Video available here.
- October 18, 2005, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Lisa M. Meffert, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
“Humans as Custodians of the Animal Kingdom: Concerns in Conservation Biology”’
Video available here.
- November 15, 2005, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
John H. Zammito, Chair, Professor, German Department, Rice University
“If Animals are Machines, so are We: Calling Descartes’ Bluff in the 18th Century”
Video available here.
- December 5, 2005, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Huda Y. Zogbhbi, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine
“Mouse Studies and What They Teach Us About Neurodegeneration, Deafness and Breathing”
Video available here.
2006 Spring Lecture Schedule
- January 17, 2006, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
CJ Peters
"Emerging Diseases from Animals to Humans"
Video available here.
- February 28, 2006, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Cary Wolf
"Animality and Disability, or, Learning From Temple Grandin"
Video available here.
- March 21, 2006, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Anthony A. Wright
"Testing Animal Intelligence and Cognition"
Video available here.
- April 10, 2006, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Irene Pepperberg
"In Search of King Solomon's Ring: Studies on the Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots"
Video availble here.
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