Heidi Nast, a professor of international studies at DePaul University, will discuss her forthcoming book about the international growth of the pet industry, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. The talk, “The Humanizing Anatomy of the Commodity Dog: The Economic Geography of Pet Ownership in the 21st Century,” is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Irwin Chair.
Nast is also a Fellow in the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University. She is author of Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace, and co-authored Places through the Body in 1998. She has published widely on sexuality and gender in edited collections and journals such as Society and Space and The Journal of the International African Institute. Her forthcoming book, Pet-i-filia: Love and Labor in Contemporary Capitalism, is part of the series from the University of Georgia, “Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation.”
Nast is also a Fellow in the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University. She is author of Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace, and co-authored Places through the Body in 1998. She has published widely on sexuality and gender in edited collections and journals such as Society and Space and The Journal of the International African Institute. Her forthcoming book, Pet-i-filia: Love and Labor in Contemporary Capitalism, is part of the series from the University of Georgia, “Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation.”
