History & Heritage Lecture Series – Animal Welfare in Macau: Dog Racing and Gambling Heritage
History & Heritage Lecture Series - Animal Welfare in Macau: Dog Racing and Gambling Heritage
21
Nov
The Xavier Research Centre for Memory and Identity will hold a History & Heritage Lecture Series “Animal Welfare in Macau: Dog Racing and Gambling Heritage” on 21 November 2022.
ABOUT THE TALK:
For a brief period in the 1930s and then for over five decades until 2018, greyhound racing was one of the attractions that helped shape Macau’s repertoire as the gambling capital of the Far East. This lecture is an exploration of Macau’s long-standing gambling culture through a closer investigation of the cultural construction of non-human animals, the factors that led to the closure of the two dog-racing businesses, and the city’s belated developments in animal welfare. I will highlight some impacts of the city’s gambling heritage, which has sprawled into various corners of life in Macau, towards the twenty-first-century campaigns to eliminate dog racing from the city’s landscape. Overall, this study presents an opportunity to rethink our relationship to and preconceptions of animals in a world where economic interests and human needs are often first and foremost in priority.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Catherine S. Chan received her PhD in History at the University of Bristol in 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Macau. Her research centers mainly on the urban narratives of Asia, with a specific focus on marginal communities, heritage, and the urban cultures of colonial Hong Kong and Macau. She is the author of The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong, A Century of Transimperial Drifting and her recent publications can be found on Modern Asian History, Historical Research, and Journal of Migration History.
Details:
Date: Monday, 21 November 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (Macau)
Location: Classroom 102, USJ Ilha Verde Campus
Organised by: Xavier Research Centre for Memory and Identity (USJ)
Moderated by: Prof. Denis Zuev, Director of the Xavier Research Centre for Memory and Identity
Contact: denis.zuev@usj.edu.mo
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*Free event, open to the general public
*Sessions will be conducted in English
