Event: Graduate Student Workshop and Public Lectures: Urban Animals Past and Present

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Urban Animals Past
and Present
Graduate Student Workshop
and Public Lectures
Saturday October 20, 2018
UCLA La Kretz Garden
Pavilion
Cities are full of animals: wild and domestic, tame and feral. In this workshop, we will focus
on all of the ways that animals exist within human urban ecosystems as sources of food,
companionship, and aesthetic pleasure, and how animals also act as scavengers, nutrient
recyclers, and vectors for the transmission of diseases such as plague, rabies, and monkeypox.
Given the global and rapid pace of urbanization, these phenomena constitute a critical
component of urban studies as well as animal management strategies.
Schedule
9:00-12:00
Graduate student presentations (if you would like to participate, please submit a five-page,
double-spaced summary of your dissertation research no later than October 1, 2018)
Lunch break
2:00-5:00
Public presentations by
Judy Stamps (University of California, Davis)
Levent Atici (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
Ian MacGregor-Fors (INECOL Institute of Ecology, Veracruz, Mexico)
Reception to follow
For further details please contact co-organizers
Monica L. Smith (smith@anthro.ucla.edu) and Pamela Yeh (pamelayeh@ucla.edu)
Sponsored by:
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA Department of Anthropology,
UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies
UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden, UCLA Department of Urban Planning