Friday, September 08, 2017

  • Colloquium Series: Dancing with Animals

    PSY 226: Psychology Building Room 226

    Full title: "Dancing with Animals: Empathy and Environmentalism in the 1970s"Speaker: Dr. Daniel Belgrad Environmentalism in the 1970s was characterized by a new emphasis on empathy with nature. It became widely accepted that animals have feelings, and therefore rights. This came as a result of a new way of thinking about what constitutes “intelligence,” broadening it to include what we …

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