BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3719-66689d480f87f89e423d020fc183fe69@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260531T060931Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230120T173000 SUMMARY:Mackenzie Cooley, “The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance” DESCRIPTION:\nThis talk discusses a new book&mdash\;The Perfection of Na ture: Animals\, Breeding\, and Race in the Renaissance (The University o f Chicago Press 2022)&mdash\;which offers a history of how Renaissance I taly and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding. While one strand of the Renaissance celebrated a liberal view of human potential\, another limited it by biology\, reducing man to bea st and prince to stud. Combining population genetic and bioarcheological findings with research in Italian\, Latin\, Spanish\, and Nahuatl\, thi s history follows domesticated animals&mdash\;including horses\, dogs\, turkeys\, and llamas&mdash\;to show parallel cultures of animal breeding in Europe and the Americas. Over the course of their collision in the s ixteenth century\, the dangerous idea of controlled reproduction was bro ught to life again and again\, and a rich\, complex\, and ever-shifting language of race and breeding was born. The Perfection of Nature excavat es historical moments of ambiguity between humanity and animality to rev eal that early modern personhood was often culturally conditional rather than legally\, biologically\, or theologically fated.\n\nFor more detai ls: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hist_mackenzie-cooley/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This talk discu sses a new book—The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, an d Race in the Renaissance (The University of Chicago Press 2022)&mda sh;which offers a history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empir e were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding. While one strand of the Renaissance celebrated a liberal view of human potential, anothe r limited it by biology, reducing man to beast and prince to stud. Combi ning population genetic and bioarcheological findings with research in I talian, Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl, this history follows domesticated a nimals—including horses, dogs, turkeys, and llamas—to show p arallel cultures of animal breeding in Europe and the Americas. Over the course of their collision in the sixteenth century, the dangerous idea of controlled reproduction was brought to life again and again, and a ri ch, complex, and ever-shifting language of race and breeding was born. < i>The Perfection of Nature excavates historical moments of ambiguity between humanity and animality to reveal that early modern personhood w as often culturally conditional rather than legally, biologically, or th eologically fated.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hist _mackenzie-cooley/

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