Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Panel presenters: Donna Haraway, Author of The Cyborg Manifesto and other influential texts; Una Chaudhuri, Collegiate Professor of English, New York University and a pioneer in animal studies within the humanities; Clare Croft, University of Michigan, Dance; Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan, French and Women's Studies; Joseph Keckler, Performer; Carmelita Tropicana, Performer

While feminist scholars have been instrumental in the emergent interdisciplinary field of animal studies, the role of feminist inquiry in a "posthuman" discourse has been difficult to locate. Might the embodied practice of performance help illuminate the connections between questions of gender, sexuality, race, and class and what has been termed "the question of the animal"?