Author Talk: Marcy Norton | The Tame and the Wild
Social Science and History Department at Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Room 108
Join University of Pennsylvania Historian Marcy Norton, to discuss her dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. Surekha Davies, in Nature, calls it “A meticulous and profound reckoning with human–animal relationships. Illuminating for anthropologists, ecologists, biologists and historians alike.”
Norton will be in coversation with James A. Serpell, Professor of Ethics & Animal Welfare Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Registration encouraged but not required
Social Science and History Department
Room 201
215-686-5396
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341