strikingly random thoughts and 'maximum data existentialisation'
Archives for the month of: January, 2008
Susan Nance, professor of US history at the University of Guelph, presented a fascinating paper
“A Star is Born to Buck: On the Development of Rodeo Bulls in the 1990s” at the Rural History Roundtable today. Although Nance’s past work has touched on topics such as tourism under the Ottoman Empire and religious parades in interwar Chicago, her more recent work has focussed on accounting for the absence of animal’s stories in historical scholarship. The subject of her talk today is a transnational study of rodeo’s and performance with an emphasis on the contribution of the animal — most specifically ‘Bodacious’, the ‘World’s Most Dangerous Bull.