Animaladies II Program and Registration
Register to attend Animaladies II Animaladies Program: Thursday December 13th 9.45 Acknowledgment of Country & Welcome: Fiona Probyn-Rapsey 10.00 Keynote Lecture : pattrice jones Chair: Melissa Boyde 11.00 Morning Tea 11.30 Chair: Alison Moore Chair: Eva Meijer – Sanctuary politics and the borders of the demos Chloe Taylor – Of gimps, gastropods, and grief Sharri Lembryk […]
CFP: How humans think (chirped the sparrow): Art-jamming the anthropological machine
Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art AAANZ Conference 2018 December 5-8, 2018, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Call for papers for the panel – How humans think (chirped the sparrow): Art-jamming the anthropological machine Session convenor(s): Fernando do Campo (University of New South Wales) Submit paper proposals to: f.docampo@unsw.edu.au The ‘question […]
Two amazing PhD Scholarships available – Animals and Urban Planning in India – Deakin University
UPDATED DEADLINE: 31st January 2019 India emerges as a critical site of biodiversity conservation and species-inclusive planning in the Urban Age. India’s scale and speed of urbanisation is almost unprecedented: in the next two decades, India, together with China, is expected to be home to almost a third of the world’s urban population. Due to […]
CFP: Animal nationalisms: Multispecies cultural politics, race, and nation un/building
Registrations now open – the event is free – via eventbrite Inspired by a special issue submission for the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Animals have long been entangled with global cultural politics of nation-building and nationalism. In North America, both cattle and horses, as domesticated laboring animals, have been foundationally deployed as tools of colonialism, […]
CFP – New Directions in Animal Advocacy, Sydney, Australia
New Directions in Animal Advocacy 10-11 December 2018 – Call for Papers The Human Animal Research Network of the University of Sydney invites participation in the New Directions in Animal Advocacy conference in late 2018. Animal advocacy organisations have increasingly been developing networks to exchange practical and experiential lessons on advocacy, but often with the […]
CFP – Animal Rights and Animal Politics in Asia
International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 11) University of Leiden Leiden, The Netherlands, 16-19 July 2019 At the forthcoming International Convention of Asian Scholars there will be an entire day dedicated to Animal Rights and Animal Politics in Asia (ARAPA). We are holding four distinct sessions for participants that will cover didactic (head-based) topics such […]
Animal Studies Journal 7.1 out now
The latest edition of Animal Studies Journal is out now! This issue comprises articles from a range of disciplinary perspectives, all addressing the need for change in human-animal relations, with many raising questions of intersectionality and activism. You will also find a review essay and other reviews of recent publications in the field. All the articles […]
‘Jews for Animals’ Campus Fellowship Applications are now open!
Applications are now open for the ‘Jews for Animals’ college fellowship program for the 2018-2019 school year! This program is an initiative of The Shamayim V’Aretz Institute, a Jewish animal welfare organization that educates leaders, trains advocates, and leads campaigns for the ethical treatment of animals. Fellows will learn from Jewish animal advocates on monthly […]
Call for Papers: James Joyce and Non-Human in James Joyce Quarterly
James Joyce Quarterly Special Issue Call for Papers: Joyce and the Non-Human (abstract deadline June 30th, 1st draft articles by January 15th 2019) The idea for this issue began with a panel for the Toronto Joyce Symposium on “Our Funnaminal World,” which later turned into the theme for this year’s Zurich James Joyce Workshop (“Joycean Animals”). […]
Defining Human-Animal Studies Video Series & New Course Listings at the Animals & Society Institute
The sixth video in Defining HAS Video series, is by Lisa Kemmerer, Professor of Philosophy and Religions at Montana State University, who has defined “animal”. Find it here! And don’t forget to check out the other videos in the series! Naming the Field by Ken Shapiro Anthrozoology by Anthony Podberscek Speciesism by Peter Singer Intersectionality by […]