UMMAA and the Northern Realms Humanities Collaboratory project are pleased to present a lecture by Dr. Christopher Atwood, professor of Mongolian history and civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, on Monday, March 6, 2-4 p.m. in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League, 911 University Avenue, Ann Arbor. Dr. Atwood's lecture is entitled, "Unusual Animals and Unusual Contexts in the Mongol Empire."
The history of human-animal relations has become an important sub-field within the broader field of environmental history; environmental history in turn has become one of the most important fields within historical investigation today. Histories and travelogues on the Mongol empire mention a number of animals that are either unusual in themselves or found clustered in unusual human-animal contexts. Study of these animals and their contexts thus sheds useful light on the human-animal relations of the Mongol empire.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
