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The weird world of slime mould https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2021/02/the-weird-world-of-slime-mould/ via @ausgeo

Prizewinning author Charlotte Woods joins @bruce_isaacs @carolyn_mak @MSA_Aust & @killian_quigley this Weds 3 March to continue our exploration of human & non-human experiences & representations of violence. Register to attend at http://ow.ly/tJt950DKnbU

28 Feb 2021, Abstracts Deadline for the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Critical Animal Studie @eacas_eu EACAS 2021: "Appraising Critical Animal Studies". Online, June 24-25th 2021. Hosted by @CfHAS
https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/eacas-2021/?fbclid=IwAR23ZQM6Yb421qfONM5hBsj8cbXby4eZYjvtC5N2JVo66UDOtSZfwdvdMFs #CriticalAnimalStudies

"What does it mean to care for species as their recovery becomes a less and less realistic prospect? How does this situation change what care might do and be?" -@thomvandooren

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/mourning-as-care-in-the-snail-ark

Save the date! Join us for the 29th annual @AnimalLawCon (virtually) this October. The Animal Law Conference is co-presented by the Center for Animal Law Studies and the Animal Legal Defense Fund. For more information, visit: http://animallawconference.org/

Tune in to our latest podcast episode with Jo Anderson of @Faunalytics and Saulius Šimčikas of @RethinkPriorit on the latest in effective animal advocacy research, including fish welfare, cultured meat, longtermism, and EAA careers. #EffectiveAltruism https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/podcast/episode-15.html

🎧 SEI researcher @thomvandooren and audio program maker Jane Ulman have produced an audio documentary on the story of the ongoing decline and extinction of Hawai'i's incredible land snails. Listen at http://ow.ly/jijo50DIask

Still looking for participants to complete my survey on using digital media/apps for animal-related content. Ping @tasaanimals - please share!

https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0oYJL85ghESlkfs

JUST RELEASED! @JoshLMilburn talks to @robleicester1 about The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights (@oxfordgroup1971), co-authored with @yewandeslondon and published by @OUPPolitics in 2020. #AnimalRights #animalstudies #animalactivism

https://knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-160-the-oxford-group-and-the-emergence-of-animal-rights-with-robert-garner

New post wrapping up our animal studies publications for 2020, ahead of moving into the 2021 publication spree - https://animalsinsocietygroup.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/2021-publications-update/ @VeganSociology @AnimalstudiesPL @animalstudiesau @ykes_ry @HumanAnimalYork @AnimalandInter1

Read Q & A with AASA member Rowena Lennox, author of Dingo Bold, about her interest in dingoes, the challenges facing dingoes and their human supporters on K’gari, and her writing: https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/blogs/news/q-a-with-rowena-lennox-author-of-dingo-bold

CFA! Climate change inaction conference @THINK_Clima Topics include: "Anthropocentrism & speciesism in climate inaction connected to interest groups: animal agriculture lobbies, dietary guidelines and lobbies, think tanks related to the industry." https://www.upf.edu/web/thinkclima/thinkclima-conference-may-2021

In the first episode of the new "animals and pandemics" interview series at the Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics, Katrien Devolder and Jeff Sebo (NYU) discuss how our treatment of animals increases the risk of pandemics

https://youtu.be/YlrmgDIzRJk

We are excited to announce that PASS will now be held online on 24-25th May 2021. A two-day training and conference event that will bring together postgraduate research students working in the field of animal studies. Call for Papers and more info coming soon...

Definitely attending this! (Dis)ability and animality. Cripping animal ethics/activism | Crosstalks https://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/event/disability-and-animality-cripping-animal-ethicsactivism

When making #conservation decisions, human idealism can sometimes conflict with data. The authors of this paper argue that labelling certain animals as #invasivespecies wrongfully discriminates against them while privileging other animals. http://ow.ly/mhef50Dx6b2

In the last 100 years, the world lost as much forest as it had in the previous 9,000 years. This is largely with animal agriculture in the driver's seat.

There's optimism in shifts to #wfpb, cultured, & plant-based meats that free up huge amounts of land. https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests

Alice Hovorka and Julie Urbanik are seeking input on the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting animal geographers and their work. The survey closes on 26 Feb: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJQv_9jk7ILXTWMvBhZTba3cAHuU-cJ6hayWRMQqtz-qqeZw/viewform

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The next Human Rights and Animal Ethics (HRAE) Reading Group is on Monday 29th March 2021, 5.30-6.30pm AEDT via zoom.The paper is: 'Feral violence: The Pelorus experiment' by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey and Rowena Lennox, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, December 2020 (attached). We are excited that we will be joined in the discussion by both authors.To join the session and/or the Reading group please contact lynn at hrae-info@unimelb.edu.au ... See MoreSee Less
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Watch out for the timezone:(DIS)ABILITY AND ANIMALITY. CRIPPING ANIMAL ETHICS/ACTIVISM - March 2, 2021. Online event (pay what you can/want)Presentations and Q&A. - Geertrui Cazaux: ‘Stories of animal resistance. About human saviorism and not so-voiceless animals’- Online lecture by Agnes Trzak: ‘The Moment We (don’t) Compare Disability and Animality’- Q&A between Agnes Trzak, Anaïs Van Ertvelde and Olave NduwanjeA Series of More-Than-Human Encounters, a collaboration of Crosstalks and Kaaitheater, seeks to situate human to more-than-human relations, and conditions of liberation and co-existence in a world that has been modelled in a context of imperialism, patriarchy and capitalism. LINK: https://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/.../disability-and-animality...FB EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/1067336997075352Organised by Crosstalks and Kaaitheater ... See MoreSee Less
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Coming up next week: AASA Masterclass - Tools for Animal Studies Research (Workshop). There are three sessions covering: Theorising Settler Colonial Spaces, Publishing your work in a Peer-Reviewed Journal and Non-Traditional Outputs - for the creative arts. The Masterclass is free for AASA Members - and you can register (and join up) here: https://artsfront.com/event/73457-tools-for-animal-studies-research-workshopIn the Non-Traditional Output session Natasha Fijn (Australian National University)will be joining artist/curator Yvette Watt (University of Tasmania) and writer Laura Jean Mckay (Massey University) in conversation with Clare Archer Lean (University of the Sunshine Coast) on creative “non-traditional” research outputs in animal studies.Dr Natasha Fijn is an ethnographic researcher and observational filmmaker based at the Australian National University’s Mongolia Institute. She is currently part of an ARC Discovery team focusing on the transfer of knowledge relating to multi-species Mongolian Medicine and One Health. Natasha has conducted extensive field research in remote places, including the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Arnhem Land in northern Australia, focusing particularly on multi-species ethnography, more-than-human sociality and concepts of domestication. She has edited two books, was the multimedia review editor for TAPJA and has edited two themed journal issues focusing on visual anthropology and in 2020 she co-edited to other two special issues on multi-species anthropology in TAJA and Inner Asia journals. Her book, ‘Living with Herds: human-animal coexistence in Mongolia’ was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. ... See MoreSee Less
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AASA Member Danielle Celermajer has just published a new book 'summertime', she says: "Some of you here may recall that in the midst of the black summer fires, I wrote a couple of pieces for the media; one about Jimmy and Kate, the pigs with whom I lived, and one about omnicide. These became the seeds of Summertime, a book, which - thanks to untold support and care from folks around me - is out today. I write this looking out at this land, brimming with life after a year that has brought blessed rain, but present to all of those who are not here to feel the cool water or the soft air. May their memory be a blessing and call us ever to act in whichever ways we can, and together."Congratulations Danielle! ... See MoreSee Less
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Are you in the creative arts? engaging with animals studies research - register for our AASA Masterclass on 10 Feb, and hear AASA Committee Member, and recent winner of the Victorian Literature Prize, Laura Jean McKay discuss 'Non-traditional outputs in Animal Studies'. Laura will be in conversation with Yvette Watt (University of Tasmania), Natasha Fijn (Australian National University) and Clare Archer Lean (University of the Sunshine Coast).AASA's Masterclass: Tools for Animal Studies Researchers is free for members (and you can join up for the price of registration if you aren't a member) here: https://artsfront.com/event/73457-tools-for-animal-studies-research-workshop/…Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020), winner of the Victorian Literature Prize, and Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc., 2013), which was shortlisted for three national book awards in Australia. Laura has a PhD in Creative Writing with a focus on Literary Animal Studies from The University of Melbourne and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, Aotearoa, where she teaches and supervises in prose and poetry, including eco-fiction and -nonfiction. She is the co-host (with Hayley Singer) of Anigram, a new monthly Instagram book show that that celebrates animals on the page, and beyond. Laura’s current research encompasses extinction narratives and animal stories. ... See MoreSee Less
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New to Animal Studies? Post Graduate or early career researcher? Interested in how intersectionality, race and colonialism engage with Animal Studies? If so, join AASA's forthcoming masterclass to see early career researchers Esther Alloun (University of Wollongong) and Kirsty Dunn (University of Canterbury) in conversation with AASA Chair Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) on their PhD research and theorising settler colonial spaces.AASA Masterclass: Tools for Animal Studies Research will be held on 10 Feb, and is free to members. Register here (and you can follow the links to join AASA too):https://artsfront.com/event/73457-tools-for-animal-studies-research-workshop/…Esther’s recently submitted PhD investigates intersectional politics of human and animal rights in Israel-Palestine and the workings of settler colonialism. Her thesis weaves in ethnography, phenomenology and affect to tease out the challenges and possibilities of intersectional activism in the context of a war zone. Her research interests lie more broadly in cultural studies, politics, feminist theory, and ethnographic research.Kirsty Dunn is an author and researcher based in Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Her creative work has been published in Tupuranga, Stasis, Mayhem, Huia Short Stories 10, and Te Whē: Te Hau o te Whenua; she was also a contributing author to the biographical anthology Tāngata Ngāi Tahu / People of Ngāi Tahu. Kirsty’s current focus is an exploration of the ways in which various animal species in Aotearoa are represented in Māori writing in English. Kirsty is the receipient of the 2021 Judith Binney Trust Writing Award. ... See MoreSee Less
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Publishing powerhouses Melissa Boyde (founder and chief editor of the Animal Studies Journal) and Agata Mrva-Montoya, (commissioning editor of Animal Publics series, Sydney University Press) will explore the ins and outs of getting your work published in a peer-reviewed journal, and speak about some of the publishing challenges facing animal studies academics in our forthcoming AASA Masterclass: Tools for Animal Studies Research. The masterclass is free for AASA members - to register for the masterclass (and join AASA) follow this link: https://artsfront.com/event/73457-tools-for-animal-studies-research-workshop#!tab=registrants ... See MoreSee Less
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS:FARMED ANIMAL WELFARE REGULATION RESEARCH - MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOLLeo Bromberg (PhD Candidate), Professor Christine Parker and Dr Tess Hardy from the Melbourne Law School are looking for people to interview (via video conference) to get a wide range of views on Australian farmed animal welfare regulation.The focus of the interviews will be on Australian farmed animal welfare standards and the process of converting the National Model Codes of Practice for the Welfare of Livestock (MCOPs) into nationally consistent standards and guidelines.Anyone with an interest in animal welfare regulation is welcome (you don't have to be an expert). If you would like to participate, please contact Leo on brombergl@student.unimelb.edu.au for more details. ... See MoreSee Less
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