October 25, 2016
Professor Harlan Weaver gives talk at Montana State University
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"Why should we care about animals when humans continue to be oppressed?"
Harlan Weaver, assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies, gave a talk that sought to respond to this question as part of Montana State University's College of Letters & Science Distinguished Speaker Series Oct. 6.
Weaver's presentation, "It's Me and the Dog: Imagining Multi Species Justice," countered the ways that questions such as those noted above position the concerns of marginalized humans as counter to those of animals.
Articulating a means of thinking and understanding human and animal needs together through examples such as the Michael Vick case and contemporary controversies in dog training, Weaver demonstrated a form of justice oriented toward both humans and nonhuman animals, a multispecies justice.