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Celebration of Faculty Scholarship Teaching excellence has always defined a Canisius University education. Less visible but equally vital is the diverse scholarly work conducted by faculty - often with undergraduate students by their side. On Wednesday, October 22, more than 50 Canisius faculty members will showcase their scholarly work and research at the university's inaugural Celebration of…
By Ruby Sleigh Introduction | privatization, privation and privacy “At the core of the capitalist system… lies the complete separation of the consumer from the means of production” – (Marx, 1867) 150 years later, Marx’s words feel more relevant than ever. With close to 800 new “mega farms” constructed over the past 6 years in the UK (Harvey and Wasley 2017), global capitalism is driving the animal…
By Mikhail Bishop Portland State University An environmental ethics reading of Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell examines the dominating power dynamic between humans and animals, and poses the consideration of equality for all Earth-inhabiting lifeforms. This essay will position different literary understandings of the novel in ecocritical conversation to examine how readers and scholars digest…
By Julie Gardella The term “culture” has no single agreed-upon definition, colloquially or across academic disciplines; over time, its meaning has evolved, and new definitions have developed. In his essay, “Culture,” novelist and critic Raymond Williams provides a brief examination of the word. According to Williams, it has three overarching aspects, the first of which he writes is “a general…
by Jerome Lim Jit How University of York / University of Cambridge Rightly, critics have been unwilling to interpret Andrew Marvell’s “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun” ([1681] 1971c) along T. S. Eliot’s narrow lines: as merely an elegiac unfolding of “a slight affair, the feeling of a girl for her pet” (1975, 168). “Faun” scholarship in the 1990s was marked by a slew of allegorical…
by Abigail Weinberg Introduction Christopher Columbus’s 1492 contact with the “New World” created an epistemological shock that forced Europeans to reorient themselves, both spatially and culturally, in relation to the newly acknowledged inhabitants of the Americas—especially in terms of who and what might count as human, animal, or something in between. My interest in the dissemination of…
The Snowbound Housing Program Make campus your home this winter. The Snowbound Housing Program gives commuter students the chance to live on campus for up to 40 days each semester. This short-term option makes it easier to skip the tough winter commutes and enjoy the convenience and comfort of campus living. How It Works Open to commuter students. Stay for 40 days during the end of fall (Nov–Dec)…
by Vita Sleigh Falmouth University “It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that lead them to think of a farm as a place …[of] …idyllic conditions might be able to live out their entire lives without ever being forced to revise this rosy image” (Singer 1975). In the forty years since Singer wrote his…
by Nicole Maceira Cumming University of Glasgow On September 28th, 1465, six thousand guests attended “the great feast at the intronization of the reverende father in God George Nevell, Archbishop of York.” George Neville was the fifth son of the Earl of Salisbury, who not only had royal blood through three familial lines, but was also connected to most of the other noble houses of England through…
by Ayesha Saeed University of Manchester Introduction The comparison between the current treatment of nonhuman animals in modern-day industrial food production systems and instances of genocide and slavery has been greatly contested. It is a controversial subject that challenges hierarchical understandings of human-animal relations. Marjorie Spiegel’s The Dreaded Comparison (1996) brought to the…
by Sariyah Mohammed University of Manchester Introduction If we wish to think about nonhuman animals as social subjects, there must be a shift in traditional sociological thinking. The equating of linguistic ability to the capacity for symbolic interaction has caused nonhuman animals to be excluded from discussion of mind and selfhood (Arluke 1996, 42). The challenge is to shift away from an…
Albert Ferkl Sociology, like most academic disciplines, traces its roots to profoundly anthropocentric assumptions. Its object of study, society, has traditionally been defined as something that is uniquely human and separate from nature, emphasizing the academic importance of social sciences next to the older and more established natural sciences. This separation is to blame for a lack of…
Abigail Robinson Canisius College, Buffalo, NY One of the leading wildlife conservation issues worldwide is human population growth, which brings deforestation and poaching, two leading global threats to the immense decline of wildlife. The rise of the Anthropocene era is the result of four leading factors: economic activity, land use, resource availability, and cultural/social issues…
Allison G. Kelley Canisius College History of Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park (YNP) was established as the first National Park on March 1, 1872 (National Park Service “History,”i2016). Today the park covers 3,472 square miles in Wyoming and small parts of Montana and Idaho (National Park Service “Park Facts,”a2016). In order to unify the protection and management of all of the national parks…
Rory W. Collins University of Canterbury, New Zealand The question of what it means to be human, when viewed through an essentialist lens, can be addressed by defining what important characteristics or abilities distinguish humans from non-human animals (hereafter animals). Michel de Montaigne argues that such dichotomizing is unjustified in “Man is No Better Than the Animals,” an excerpt from his…
Canisius University Physician Assistant Studies Estimated Program Costs for Students Tuition: $108,350 The tuition rate for the 2025/26 academic year is now $985/credit hour in accordance with college and industry rate increases. This does not include college and program fees listed below. Canisius Graduate Fees: $3395 (total) Comprehensive univesity fees: $485/semester (technology, wellness…
by Fabiolla Lorusso Goldsmiths, University of London Abstract Human-centric ideas about being at the top of the food chain and being the superior species due to our development of complex rational skills, have influenced the construction of a biopolitical system that normalises animal exploitation – the factory farm. The factory farm imposes blurred boundaries between animal and machine, corpse…
by Karen Cooper University of Tasmania Kiddies Corner is an installation parodying the children’s play areas that are found in such places as fast food restaurants, doctors’ and dentists’ reception areas and other practices where waiting is involved. These areas are usually defined by bold, vibrant colours and provide activities to keep children occupied, such as drawing materials, books and toys…
By Isabelle Pollentzke History Graduate, University of Glasgow Abstract Western folklore has featured werewolves for centuries, beginning with the ancient Norwegian Völsunga saga. In early modern Europe, werewolves like Peeter Stubbe became feared criminals often thought to be cooperating with the devil and who should be punished. Since they were monsters, they escaped easy classification. This…
By Susie Marcroft Southern Cross University, Australia Metaphors such as ‘to walk in another’s shoes’ become so embedded in the vernacular as clichés that they lose traction. But now more than ever we need to probe such metaphors for insight. My creative research titled Strange Little Attractors is one such imaginative probing. It explored how the notion of taking an-Other’s perspective might be…
By Georgia Croucher University of Sussex, year 3 “Animal suffering is fine if it is necessary.” Just how far does the law go to protect animals? Abstract This article investigates the relationship between humans and animals in the eyes of the law, in relation to the difference in rights and protections afforded, the impact this has on the concept of equality and of “necessary suffering,” with…
By Hope Holtum Junior Undergraduate at the University of Redlands Johnston Center for Integrative Studies Abstract This paper serves as an analysis of the Nonhuman Rights Project, its objectives, approaches and driving philosophies. These philosophies will be compared to other popular schools of thought in animal rights and analyzed to determine whether the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) is a…
Biophilia as a Virtue: The Benefits of Reestablishing our Human Bond with the Natural World by Mallory Abel | Canisius College Abstract: Humanity’s relationship with the environment is far from sustainable. On its current course, the natural world will soon be damaged beyond repair, and the future of living systems immeasurably compromised. To avoid these consequences, it is imperative that we…