Launch Party: Forget the Camel! by Elizabeth MeLampy

When:
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2025 6:30p -
7:30p

Where:
Parkside Bookshop
260 Shawmut Ave.
Boston, MA 02118

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
apollo_publishers Audrey Stewart

Categories:
Animals, LGBTQ+, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://parksidebookshop.com/events/2248020250408

What makes a human different than an animal? Forget the Camel! seeks to answer this question by exploring animal festivals around the country as microcosms of our relationship to animals more broadly. Whether hunting snakes or jumping frogs, racing ostriches or praising groundhogs, humans use animals to say something about themselves, their community, and their history. In the end, my book questions whether our fascination with these spectacles is worth the price these animals pay, or if there exists a more compassionate way to celebrate our stories.


Author Discussion • Q&A • Book Signing

Event is FREE


About the Author...

Elizabeth MeLampy is a Harvard-educated lawyer, with experience in animal law and environmental law. While in law school, she worked on issues related to farmed animals, wild animals, and captive animals with Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic. She was also in the inaugural cohort of Emerging Scholar Fellows with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, where she worked on animal law scholarship. After two clerkships—with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Federal District Court in Arizona—Elizabeth litigated with one of the top environmental nonprofits in the country. 

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