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Furry History: A Conversation
Friday July 5, 2024 8:30pm - 10:00pm EDT
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What makes history, and how do fans step into the historian role and toy with a system traditionally bent towards upholding power and normative culture? Join us for a panel and discussion invested in furry as a difficult-to-cement abundance of stories and histories. Featuring: Tofte Alpaca, Bash Piñata, & Chipper Wolf.
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Chipper

Arf! I am a furry historian specializing in the evolution of furry digital media (and still with so much to learn: please teach me!). When not TFing into a derpy werewolf or imperious bat, I also teach academic humanities, incl lit, writing, and queer stuff.
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Brandy J. Lewis

University of California, Riverside
Brandy J. Lewis is a professor in the department of Liberal Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles. She holds a doctorate in English from the University of California, Riverside, and she specializes in Comics, Film and Media Studies, Queer Theory, and Science Fiction Studies... Read More →
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Convention History Project

Convention History Project
Founded in 2013, the Convention History Project is a group founded by university students meant to document the history of modern fan conventions, covering all genres from stf, sci-fi, comics, anime, furry, Trekkie, brony, and more, all extending from the 1939 Worldcon model. Convention... Read More →
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Tofte

Hiya! My name is Tofte, a.k.a. Christopher Polt — I'm an alpaca and a professor of Classical Studies who has taught at UNC–Chapel Hill, Carleton College, USF–Tampa, and currently Boston College. I specialize in Latin poetry, Roman entertainment and spectacle, anthropomorphic... Read More →
Friday July 5, 2024 8:30pm - 10:00pm EDT
DLCC 335
  Fandom, Educational

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