The University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

5 – 7 November

Abstract submissions have now closed.

The 2025 Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Conference is held on the lands of Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair peoples. The Jagera people of the foothills and escarpment, Giabal of the Toowoomba area and the Jarowair of the northern areas towards and including the Bunya Mountains.

The 2025 AASA Conference, Centring Animals Across the Disciplines, asks us to pause, reorientate, and engage our imagination, intellect, and practice to place non-human animals at the centre.

What does the world look, feel, taste or sound like when we, as scholars, artists and activists, put animals at the centre of our engagement?

What critically informed insights emerge?

The Conference will offer a vibrant setting for conversations, projects, debates, and speculative futures, with the aim of identifying cross and trans-disciplinary synergies, and integrating First Nations knowledge in the interests of other species and the more than human world.