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</span><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif" style="">new year! I hope many of you will be able to join us for a talk by <span style="color:black; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">Dr. </span><span style="color:black">Benjamín<span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial"> </span>Schultz-Figueroa
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<b><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif">The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif; color:black; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">Dr. </span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif; color:black">Benjamín<span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial"> </span>Schultz-Figueroa<span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial"> (Seattle
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<span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif">In <i>The Celluloid Specimen,</i> Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa examines rarely seen behaviorist films of animal experiments from the 1930s and 1940s. These laboratory recordings—including Robert Yerkes's work with North
American primate colonies, Yale University's rat-based simulations of human society, and B. F. Skinner's promotions for pigeon-guided missiles—have long been considered passive records of scientific research. In Schultz-Figueroa's incisive analysis, however,
they are revealed to be rich historical, political, and aesthetic texts that played a crucial role in American scientific and cultural history—and remain foundational to contemporary conceptions of species, race, identity, and society.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif; color:black; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">Dr. </span><span style="font-family:Perpetua,serif; color:black">Benjamín<span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial"> </span>Schultz-Figueroa<span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial"> is
an Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Seattle University. His research focuses on the history of scientific filmmaking, nontheatrical film, and animal studies. Among other venues, his writing has been published in</span> <i>JCMS: Journal of Cinema and
Media Studies</i><span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">,</span> <i>Film History</i><span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">,</span><i> Journal
of Environmental Media</i><span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">.</span><i> </i><span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">His
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<div>The University of Washington sits on the occupied homelands of Coast Salish peoples. My family and I are grateful to live and work as
<a href="https://www.realrentduwamish.org/" target="_blank">guests on these lands</a>. This land acknowledgment is but one small gesture in the ongoing process of working toward repairing and sustaining relations with Coast Salish lands, waters, peoples and
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