About the Lecture: Kinship: how to live in a more-than-human world

2024 Robin-Griffiths Lecture: Kinship

Professor Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch University)

Thursday 24 October 2024
6-8pm AEDT
Level 1, Auditorium (1.28)
RSSS Building (146)

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Our earliest roads were elephant paths. Even today, in Africa’s most impenetrable undergrowth, it is the trails maintained by elephants that enable human mobility. Hacking back the overgrowth of time and following one historical track, we find ourselves deep in more-than-human history. In this lecture, Professor Swart explores what a doomed experiment on elephants taught us about animal cultures (and quite a bit about our own). Professor Swart examines our past misunderstandings and successes with animals and considers the implications for our shared survival.