Tue
19
May
Seminars and Conferences
Animal Farm Seminar Series - Spring 2026 | 2 - Mariachiara Ficarelli
AnimalFarm explores the architectural history of animal farming in Europe and North America, from sixteenth-century Palladian villas to late twentieth-century automated factory farms.The talk will take place on 19 May 2026 at 9.30.
The project engages with perspectives from critical animal studies, the history of veterinary medicine, and labor history. AnimalFarm investigates the historical roots of a controversial phenomenon of the Anthropocene and offers an alternative perspective on the spatial, material, and ethical implications of the human-animal relationship over time.
The AnimalFarm seminar series brings together scholars from different disciplines whose research intersects with architectural and animal history, as well as ethnography, critical animal studies, history of science, and design theory.
The talk will be held in English.
2 - Mariachiara Ficarelli, Senses of Confinement
Speaker
Mariachiara Ficarelli is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University. Drawing on environmental and medical anthropology, her research examines labor rights, the energy transition, and animal production in relation to shifting social meanings of rurality and deindustrialization in Northern Italy.
She is currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled Work After Work, based on 24 months of field research conducted with farm and factory workers, farm owners and managers, veterinarians, union representatives, and rural residents of the bassa padana (the low Po River Valley).
Next appointment
Wednesday, 03 June 2026, 14.30-16.30 (CET) | Lisa Carignani, Spazi critici per gli animali (The talk will be in Italian)
To attend online, please send an email to Sofia Nannini.
For more information, please visit the seminar website.
The project engages with perspectives from critical animal studies, the history of veterinary medicine, and labor history. AnimalFarm investigates the historical roots of a controversial phenomenon of the Anthropocene and offers an alternative perspective on the spatial, material, and ethical implications of the human-animal relationship over time.
The AnimalFarm seminar series brings together scholars from different disciplines whose research intersects with architectural and animal history, as well as ethnography, critical animal studies, history of science, and design theory.
The talk will be held in English.
2 - Mariachiara Ficarelli, Senses of Confinement
Speaker
Mariachiara Ficarelli is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University. Drawing on environmental and medical anthropology, her research examines labor rights, the energy transition, and animal production in relation to shifting social meanings of rurality and deindustrialization in Northern Italy.
She is currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled Work After Work, based on 24 months of field research conducted with farm and factory workers, farm owners and managers, veterinarians, union representatives, and rural residents of the bassa padana (the low Po River Valley).
Next appointment
Wednesday, 03 June 2026, 14.30-16.30 (CET) | Lisa Carignani, Spazi critici per gli animali (The talk will be in Italian)
To attend online, please send an email to Sofia Nannini.
For more information, please visit the seminar website.