“Emerging Voices in Academia”
Vasile Stănescu will speak on “Critical Animal Theory” at 4 p.m. Sept. 1 in the Napa Valley College Little Theater (Building 1200), the first speaker in the 2011 Diversity Speaker Series sponsored by the Associated Students of Napa Valley College. The programs are free and open to the public.
Vasile Stănescu is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in the Program of Modern Thought and Literature. Vasile serves as co-senior editor for the Critical Animals Studies books series published by Rodopi Press. He also serves on the review board and is part of the "Editor Collective" (i.e. co-editor) for the Journal of Critical Animal Studies. He has written award-winning papers, presented and organized over twenty academic conferences, has nine publications, and has received eighteen awards, grants, and fellowships. He is also a founding member, and current co-organizer, of the Stanford Environmental Humanities Project. In 2011, he received an external grant from the Culture and Animals Foundation to help fund his current research on the intersection of animal rights and environmentalism.
Andrew Jolivette will speak Sept. 22 on “Critical Mixed Race Theory.”
Karli June Cerankowski will speak Oct. 13 on “Queer Theory.”
Carlos Hagedorn will speak Nov. 3 on “Chicano Studies.”
NVC Prof. Janet Stickmon will speak Dec. 1 on “Africana Studies.”
For more information, call ASNVC at 707-253-3060 or see www.napavalley.edu
Posting date: 8/29/2011