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CFP: Decolonizing Animals: AASA 2019

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

July 1st — July 4th 2019 Initial Call for papers Colonial politics and histories have shaped, and continue to shape, the contemporary worlds of humans and other animals. Languages, societies, cultures, species, landforms, ecosystems, waterways and climates all bear the … Continue reading →

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CFP: Animaladies II – December 2018 (Due 30th April)

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

CFP Animaladies II Conference Date: December 13-14, 2018. Location: University of Wollongong, Wollongong Campus Papers which address the following themes are welcome: Cultural politics of protest Actions and distraction Sanctuaries and sanctum Utopia and dystopia We will have two types … Continue reading →

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CFP: Social difference and nature: contesting narratives of elitism

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

1st June 2018; University of Edinburgh Organisers: Krithika Srinivasan, University of Edinburgh & Karen Bickerstaff, University of Exeter Keynote speaker: Prof. Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine These times that have come to be christened the Anthropocene are characterised … Continue reading →

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Exhibition: Remembering Animals: Rituals, Artifacts and Narratives

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

Curated by Julia Schlosser This exhibit will look at the ways in which contemporary artists contemplate and investigate aspects of animal death, from the very personal loss of a companion animal to the “invisible” animal deaths we are constantly surrounded … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – Animals and the Left

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

One-Day Workshop, NYU Animal Studies 29 June 2018, New York City Organisers: Sunaura Taylor (NYU), Troy Vettese (NYU), and Alyssa Battistoni (Yale) In 1917 Rosa Luxemburg wrote to a friend from her prison cell in Breslau: The hide of a … Continue reading →

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Some new publications in Animal Studies

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (Columbia University Press, 2018): https://cup.columbia.edu/book/speculative-taxidermy/9780231180719 David Herman, ed., Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2018): https://bloomsbury.com/us/animal-comics-9781350015319/ David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life (Oxford … Continue reading →

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British Animal Studies Network – Sex – program available

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

This meeting will address issues including animal sexuality, the law, the conservation and reproduction of species, the place of animals in the sexual sciences, spontaneous generation, artificial insemination, and zoophilia from a range of disciplinary perspectives. To register to attend … Continue reading →

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CALL FOR PAPERS – Animal History Group Summer Conference

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

‘Animal Histories’ King’s College London, 28-29 June 2018 Keynote speaker: Dolly Jørgensen We are delighted to announce that, following the success of our inaugural summer workshop in 2017, the Animal History Group will be holding a two-day conference in London … Continue reading →

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Harvard Summer Course – The Animal-Human Divide

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Lynn Mowson

Harvard University will again, through its Summer School (www.summer.harvard.edu), offer an online Animal Studies course. The 2018 course is entitled “The Animal-Human Divide.” Registration opens March 1 and closes May 21. A copy of the syllabus for the course can be downloaded at … Continue reading →

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New Issue of Animal Studies Journal – Sanctuary edition

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

The latest issue of the Animal Studies Journal is now available online: Current Issue:  Volume 6, Number 2 (2017) “This special sanctuary edition of the Animal Studies Journal is dedicated to Minuet, who died not long ago after living an … Continue reading →

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