When: Thursday, April 24, 2025 1pm (EDT)/10am (PDT)/7pm (CEST)

Where: Online via Zoom

Kathryn Renton (B.A. Harvard, M.A. and Ph.D, UCLA), is a historian and
communications specialist at the Getty Research Institute. In her research, she explores
the more than human early modern world, interested in the ways non-human animals
and environments have contributed to historical change. She has taught in Los Angeles
at Occidental College and UCLA where she currently teaches a course for the Food
Studies minor.

Kathryn will speak about her latest book Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early
Modern Iberian World (Cambridge University Press, 2024). In the first century of Spanish
colonization, horses spread dramatically throughout the Americas. While horses were
brought and bred to invade and colonize Indigenous kingdoms in the Americas, horses
also became a notable feature of American landscapes and emerging Native equestrian
practices. Relationships with equine shaped strategies of colonization and resistance,
and a focus on these human-equine relationships illuminates dynamic instability within
colonial ideals of domestication, purity, and empire. This multispecies history brings to
light key “feral” dynamics at work in the more-than-human early modern Iberian world
during a key period of global change.

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