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:14516-4e8875c3bf0506ae086921d030f98f01@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260417T124342Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T170000 SUMMARY:West with Giraffes Roundtable DESCRIPTION:\nLynda Rutledge’s West with Giraffes tracks the unlikely jo urney of a Dust Bowl refugee\, a hardened zoologist\, a woman photojourn alist\, and two giraffes from a hurricane-racked New York to a welcoming San Diego zoo. On the road\, friendships are formed\, deepened\, and di ssolved.\n\nThree invited panelists\, Neil M. Maher\, Randy Malamud\, an d John Marsh\, will consider the context of the Great Depression\, the e nvironmental impact of the Dust Bowl\, and the ethics of zoos.\n\nFeatur ed Panelists:\n\nNeil M. Maher is a professor of history and master teac her in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of T echnology and Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Apollo in t he Age of Aquarius and Nature’s New Deal and has written essays and op-e ds for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Maher’s scholarship a nd teaching explore how the natural environment has mediated power relat ionships between people over time. He is currently working on his third book\, which is tentatively titled Wasted: An Environmental Justice Hist ory of Newark\, New Jersey.\n\nRandy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of En glish at Georgia State University. His specializations are in modern lit erature\, cultural studies\, and ecocriticism. He has a particular inter est in animal studies and anthrozoology. Malamud has written several boo ks on human-animal relations\, including Reading Zoos\, Representations of Animals and Captivity\; Poetic Animals and Animal Souls\; A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age\; and An Introduction to Animals an d Visual Culture.\n\nJohn Marsh is professor of English at Penn State an d is the director of the Center for American Literary Studies. His schol arship and teaching focus on modern and contemporary poetry\, nineteenth -century American poetry\, the 1930s\, and the economics\, philosophy\, and literature of inequality. Marsh has written several books\, includin g The Emotional Life of the Great Depression (2019)\, which tells the st ory of the Great Depression through its paradigmatic emotions: despair\, anger\, sympathy\, righteousness\, panic\, fear\, awe\, love\, and hope . His most recent book\, A Rotten Crowd: America\, Wealth\, and 100 Year s of the Great Gatsby\, was published in late 2024.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/west-with-giraffes-roundtable/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lynda Rutledge’ s West with Giraffes tracks the unlikely journey of a Dust Bowl refugee, a hardened zoologist, a woman photojournalist, and two giraffe s from a hurricane-racked New York to a welcoming San Diego zoo. On the road, friendships are formed, deepened, and dissolved.

Three invit ed panelists, Neil M. Maher, Randy Malamud, and John Marsh, will conside r the context of the Great Depression, the environmental impact of the D ust Bowl, and the ethics of zoos.

Featured Panelists:

Neil M. Maher is a professor of history and master teacher in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technol ogy and Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Apollo in the Age of Aquarius and Nature’s New Deal and has written ess ays and op-eds for The New York Times and The Washington Po st. Maher’s scholarship and teaching explore how the natural enviro nment has mediated power relationships between people over time. He is c urrently working on his third book, which is tentatively titled Wast ed: An Environmental Justice History of Newark, New Jersey.

< strong>Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgi a State University. His specializations are in modern literature, cultur al studies, and ecocriticism. He has a particular interest in animal stu dies and anthrozoology. Malamud has written several books on human-anima l relations, including Reading Zoos, Representations of Animals and Captivity; Poetic Animals and Animal Souls; A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age; and An Introduction to Animals an d Visual Culture.

John Marsh is professor of English at Penn State and is the director of the Center for American Li terary Studies. His scholarship and teaching focus on modern and contemp orary poetry, nineteenth-century American poetry, the 1930s, and the eco nomics, philosophy, and literature of inequality. Marsh has written seve ral books, including The Emotional Life of the Great Depression (2019), which tells the story of the Great Depression through its parad igmatic emotions: despair, anger, sympathy, righteousness, panic, fear, awe, love, and hope. His most recent book, A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and 100 Years of the Great Gatsby, was published in late 20 24.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/west-with-g iraffes-roundtable/

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