Susan McHugh delivers three talks in Europe

Susan McHugh, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of English, was hosted in Europe to give three talks last week.

She delivered the keynote address, titled "When Species Meet on Killing Fields," on September 23, 2013, as part of the W眉rzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies.  A public audience included fellows funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, a foundation dedicated to the support of the humanities, social sciences, and science technology in higher education and research.  The talk was hosted at W眉rzburger Residenz, a rococo palace that is now a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site.

Funded through a Swedish national grant, McHugh also presented two different talks at Uppsala University, the oldest university in Scandinavia.   For the literature faculty, she gave a lecture titled 鈥淟iterary Animal Studies.鈥

She later led the seminar 鈥淣arrating Bio-cultural Extinctions鈥 at the Centre for Gender Research, newly located in the Linnean Gardens.   Named for Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linna茅), whom scientists recognize as the father of modern taxonomy, the Linnean Gardens are the world鈥檚 oldest botanical gardens.

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