Coleman to be Guest Speaker at UWG History Lecture
The Department of History and the University of West Georgia will present its annual faculty and student lecture on historical events, Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Technology-enhanced Learning Center (TLC), room 1303. Author and historian Dr. Jon Coleman will be the guest lecturer.
Coleman, an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and the author of “Vicious: Wolves and Men in America,” will lecture on the relationship and history between men, wolves and other predators.
His talk, “Animal Last Stands: Empathy and Extinction in the American West,” will center on stories surrounding the deaths of famous last animals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The wolf has been adopted recently as the new UWG athletic mascot and this topic may be of special interest to the campus community. Everyone is welcome.
“These tales chronicled the deaths of exceptional vermin: wolves, bears, and mountain lions,” said Coleman. “The legends are a record of the convoluted sentiments that extinction called forth in early 20th century America, and they can serve as guides into the fractured emotions animals continue to evoke today.”
Coleman is the 2005 recipient of the Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association and the W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association.
For more information, contact the UWG Department of History at 678-839-6508.
