Conversation Project: A Bunch of Animals
Between twenty-five and one hundred fifty species of life on earth are lost to extinction every day. As human animals, we are implicated in the lives—and deaths—of many other animals besides members of our own species. Conversations with and about other animals are crucial to our shared planetary future. And animals are also just plain interesting. Many of us have relationships with animals. We rely on them economically, physically, and interpersonally. We may have had profound experiences with (nonhuman) animals. There is no one right way to be in relationship with animals, much less to approach the topic of animals. The goal of this conversation is to spend time together “thinking with animals,” to share ideas, and reflect together on what we can learn from “a bunch of animals.”
Please Don't Be Dead
Ryan Pfeil writes about reckoning with mortality and butterfly pupae.
Consider This: Humans, Land, and Animals
Join us at 7:00 p.m. on May 22 at Pendleton Center for the Arts for a conversation with Bobby Fossek, Erica Berry, and Wendy Bingham about living in community with animals and plants. Some animals and plants are welcomed by people, and others we reject or try to eradicate. How do we decide which living things belong, and what do these decisions show about our place on the land?
This live, onstage conversation is part of Oregon Humanities’ 2023–24 Consider This series, Fear and Belonging. To participate, please register here.