Event date:
Wednesday 20 November to Thursday 21 November
Time:
18:00
Location:
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ
Date: 20 November 2019
Title: “Cats robbed him of his wealth, his health and his reason”: The Wild and Tranquil Geographies of Animals and Madness
Times: 6pm – 7pm
Cost: £3
Speaker: Professor Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow
Description:
Louis Wain was a relatively well-known British illustrator working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly known for his depictions of cats. It is claimed that ‘cats drove him mad’. This talk will explore the ‘madness’ of both human and animals, the curious cross-codings arising between ‘mad’ people and troublesome beasts, and parallels in the spaces/environments that they have occupied or to which they have been consigned.