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Dr. Karen Davis, the founder and President of United Poultry
Concerns, will present a paper at an upcoming conference on "The
Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural and Industrial History" to
be held at Yale University, May 17-19, 2002. Her presentation,
"Thinking Like a Chicken," will look at the gendered and other
symbolic ways that chickens have been regarded in the contemporary
environmental and animal rights movements, and in the media. She will
discuss the chicken in history, myth, ritual, and reality, and show
the behavior of so-called industrial chickens in a sanctuary setting,
as part of the Panel on Folklore and Symbolism of the Chicken, on
Saturday, May 18 (10:15 - 11:45 AM). United Poultry Concerns will
have an exhibit table at the conference that will include UPC's new
video: Chickens: Their Dignity, Beauty, and Abuse.
The Chicken Conference, which is sponsored by the Program in Agrarian
Studies at Yale University, is designed to present an account of the
chicken under various aspects through history to the present and
beyond. It will bring together scholars, agronomists, agribusiness,
and activists whose work has helped to define the social history and
cultural role of the chicken.
For information about the conference and registration, visit
http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/chicken
Or send an email to may.conference@yale.edu
The conference is free and open to the public.
United Poultry Concerns. April 11, 2002
United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
PO Box 150
Machipongo, VA 23405-0150
757-678-7875
FAX: 757-678-5070
www.upc-online.org
(UPC President Karen Davis To Speak at Yale Chicken Conference)
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