Animal Magnetism: The Emotional Ecology of Animals and Humans

A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar
Organized by Susan Alcock, John Bodel, and Stephen Houston
www.brown.edu/go/consocials

Why Do We Watch Stupid Cat Videos? How Do Pets Amuse?
Thursday, December 6, 2012 at Noon

Building the Extended Society
Friday, April 26, 2013, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

The Emotional Bond: Deepening Relations Between Animals, Humans, Nature
Saturday, October 26, 2013, 10:00 am-4:00 pm

FRIEND/FOE/FILM:
Snakes on a Plane
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford)
"Masters, Slaves, Animals and Freedom: A Mytilenean Perspective"
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 5:30 pm

Menageries and the Giving and Costly Pet
Friday, February 7-Saturday, February 8, 2014

Beasts, Monsters, and the Fantastic in the Religious Imagination
February 28-March 1, 2014

Animal Magnetism: The Pushmi-Pullyu of Consocial Life
Friday, April 4-Sunday, April 6, 2014