EMPIRE AND THE ANIMAL BODY: Violence, Identity, and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction
Empire and the Animal Body explores representations of exotic animals in Victorian adventure fiction, mainly in works by R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, G. M. Fenn, Paul du Chaillu, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan.
ANIMALS AND WAR: Studies of Europe and North America
Animals and War is the first collection of essays to explore its important, yet neglected, topic. Scholars from sociology, history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies investigate the presence of animals in human wars.
New formations Special Issue: The AnimalS Turn
This issue explores studies in human-animal relations and opens up new, and perhaps urgent, avenues and modes of signification, thinking, doing, being and becoming.
Deadly Beautiful
Dr Liana Christensen, writer, naturalist and animal studies scholar based at the University of Western Australia, recently launched her book Deadly Beautiful: Vanishing Killers of the Animal Kingdom. You can listen to an interview with Liana about the book at Radio New Zealand.
Among Animals Documentary
Listen to Radio National’s 360 Documentary ‘Among Animals’: “Our interactions with animals have always been complex. How do we view ‘the other’? In a time when there is increasing scrutiny of our treatment of farmed animals and a huge interest in both animal sentience and cognition, this program offers many perspectives on the parallel lives […]
2011 Animals and Society Course Awards
Call for Nominations for the Humane Society of the United States Animals and Society Institute 2011 Animals and Society Course Awards The HSUS and the Animals and Society Institute invite applications from college and university faculty members for the twelfth annual Animals and Society Course Awards. The awards recognize excellence in courses concerning the human-animal […]
Professor Darryl Jones on the upcoming Australian Animal Studies Group conference
Listen as Associate Professor Darryl Jones, Griffith University, outlines the fourth Australian Animal Studies Group conference.
Online Survey: Animal Welfare Science Centre
Can pet ownership tell us anything about ourselves? Do certain personality traits predict the type of pets we own and how we behave towards them? At the Animal Welfare Science Centre, Monash University, we are trying to find out what people think about companion animal ownership and to figure out ways to improve the welfare […]
Launch of ground-breaking Journal of Animal Ethics
A ground-breaking new journal covering the issue of animal ethics has been launched by a US and UK academic partnership with the goal of widening international debate about the moral status of animals. This month, the University of Illinois Press will publish the pioneering new Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE), the result of years of […]
ASI-WAS HAS Fellows 2011
News from Margo DeMello, Program Director, Human-Animal Studies, at the Animals and Society Institute The Animals and Society Institute and Wesleyan Animal Studies are proud to announce the selection of eight scholars for the 2011 ASI-WAS Human-Animal Studies Fellowship this summer. This year’s fellowship will begin May 23 and end July 1 at Wesleyan University, through Wesleyan Animal […]