Category Archives: In the News

BASN Online Meeting: Animal Borderlands

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

BASN will be online for the meeting ‘Animal Borderlands’ – Session 1 – ‘Living in the Borderlands’ – Friday 18th September Session 2 – ‘Narrating, negotiating and performing border crossings’ – Friday 25th September Session 3 – ‘The human-animal interface’ … Continue reading →

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Call for papers: Dreams and the Animal Kingdom in Culture and Aesthetic Media

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

23-25 September 2021 | Saarland University | Saarbrücken (Germany)  International and Interdisciplinary Conference held by the Research Centre ‘European Dream-Cultures’, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) Animal dreams — dreams of animals, by animals, and inspired by animals — … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Multispecies Heritage conference

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

Due: 23rd September 2020 November 26-27, 2020. This conference, organized by the Multispecies Storytelling network, Multispecies approaches have recently developed as important interdisciplinary connections between the arts and humanities and the natural sciences. The term ‘multispecies’ is used to characterise … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Therapies Incorporating Horses to Benefit People: What are They and How are They Distinct?”

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

30 November 2020 The Human Animal Interaction (HAI) Section of the American Psychological Association has issued a call for papers for a special issue covering “Therapies Incorporating Horses to Benefit People: What are They and How are They Distinct?” Please direct … Continue reading →

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New Books and articles

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

BOOKS: Kristin Andrews, 2020. The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition. 2nd. ed. Routledge. Sarat Colling, 2020. Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era: The Animal Turn. Michigan State University Press. Jason Hannan (ed.), 2020. Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture and the … Continue reading →

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Virtual Conference: Other Worlds – Octopuses in Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

30–31 October 2020, hosted by University of Kassel and GLASMOOG See: www.okto-lab.org for updates Species in the order of Octopoda are as intriguing as they are challenging to fathom. The images as monsters from the deep of unimaginable proportions reflect this strikingly, so does … Continue reading →

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Becoming Animal

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Susan Pyke

Teya Brooks Pribac and Debra L. Merskin How do we become who we are? How do we get to be the way we are within ourselves, for and to the rest of the world, and the way that world is … Continue reading →

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Webinar: ‘Where Species don’t Meet’

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

Webinar with Paula Arcari (principal author, at Edgehill Uni, UK), Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (UOW) and Hayley Singer (UMelb). About this Event – Thursday 10 September 2020, 4pm-5pm AESTRegister via Eventbrite: “Where Species don’t Meet” download the article here (published in Environment … Continue reading →

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CFP: Climate, Creatures and COVID-19

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

Environment and Animals in 21st Century Media Discourse Few issues dominate twenty-first century media and public consciousness quite like climate crisis and the environment. We are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of our co-existence with the more-than-human world in … Continue reading →

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CFP: Special Issue on Animal Futurity – Abstracts Due September 7th, 2020

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Lynn Mowson

Call for Papers for Special IssueAnimal Futurity: A Speculative Exploration of the Future of Human-Animal Relations In her book, Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal, Sherryl Vint explains that we are as dependent in the 21st century on … Continue reading →

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