PhD and ECR: The Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian native vertebrate animals
Applications for the 2022 awards will open in early 2021 Details This fund offers annual science grants of up to $20,000 each to support field-based, high-quality ecological research. The objective of the grant is to provide financial support for conservation-based research of Australian ecosystems (including off-shore islands and the continental shelf) that ultimately will lead […]
European Association for Critical Animal Studies Conference dates for 2021
EACAS has announced the dates for the 7th biennial conference – May 24-25, 2021. The conference will be virtual. Calls for papers will be announced soon via the website: https://www.eacas.eu/ and/or twitter @eacas_eu
CFP: Animal Satire – deadline reminder
Animal Satire Editors Susan McHugh (University of New England) and Robert McKay (University of Sheffield) Intelligent interest in or ethical commitment to animals has always been a rich source and target of satire or parody. Recent kerfuffles about the publication and then withdrawal of spoof essays about dogs on the Berlin wall, by a collective known […]
Virtual knowing animals reading group: 30 November, 5.30-6.30pm – ‘Ibis and the City’
This month we will discuss Paul Allatson and Andrea Connor’s paper ‘Ibis and the city: bogan kitsch and the avian revisualisation of Sydney’, Visual Communication, Vol 19, Issue 3, pp.369-390, May 2020. Paul and Andrea will be joining us. All are welcome, contact lynn mowson at hrae-info@unimelb.edu.au for the paper and zoom link for the […]
Grant Opportunity: ProVeg International
Funding available for work that aligns with ProVeg’s mission to reduce the global consumption of animals by 50% by the year 2040. See http://proveggrants.org/grants/ for more details. ProVeg Grant: to fund vegan advocacy and meat reduction efforts: $10,000-$30,000 USD. Applications taken 4 times a year, next deadlines is 1 December, 2020. Eligible Proposal Categories: Corporate […]
Virtual Conference: 20th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies 7-8 November
Free and open to the public – go to this page for the zoom link and speaker abstracts: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/2020/09/naicasconference2020/?fbclid=IwAR2YJ4qY9WRL2l46WM-4sXY6WlQCPnJ7Z0zefLMKUniyvfrkhuV5bcj8BC4
Call for Papers: Animalia, An Anthrozoology Journal
Calling all Animal Studies scholars and undergrads! Animalia: An Anthrozoology Journal (https://www.animaliajournal.org/) is an online, digital journal for Anthrozoology/Animal Studies scholars and talented undergraduate students. This project was created and is maintained by a handful of students and alumni of the Anthrozoology Master of Science program at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, under the guidance of […]
3 Year Research Position: Environmental Humanities
Deadline: October 15, 2020The University of Oslo, Norway is offering a three-year research position in Environmental Humanities at the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH), at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), starting January 2021. Applicants with research and teaching interests in interdisciplinary approaches to environmental humanities, including postcolonial and Indigenous approaches; multispecies and extinction studies; […]
Call for proposals EACAS Conference: Animal Futures: Animal Rights in activism and academia
European Association for Critical Animal StudiesCall for presentation proposals: Please send your abstract (max 300 words) to conference@loomus.ee by September, 30, 2020. Presentations can be made by Skype.Venue: Pärimusmuusika Ait, Viljandi, EstoniaDate: May 8th 2021 – May 9th 2021 Critical animal studies scholars and animal advocacy activists have long argued that human-animal relations are in a […]
Call for Blog Contributions: AASA/Minding Animals
In support of the next Minding Animals Conference, entitled Animals and Climate Emergency Conference (MAC5, Sydney, July 2021), and to encourage discussion on critical aspects affecting our planetary communities, AASA is calling for blog contributions centred around the MAC5’s themes and subthemes listed below and at: https://www.mindinganimals.com/conferences/mac5/ We invite submission of blog proposals and/or completed […]