Researcher Position – US
Researcher Application Deadline: May 31, 2018 Looking for a researcher to join our team and help develop new insights into effective animal advocacy and broader moral circle expansion. This position will ideally focus on quantitative research, such as surveys and randomized controlled trials, because current research staff leans in a more qualitative direction, however excellent […]
Workshop on “Animal Labour: Ethical, Legal and Political Perspectives on Recognizing Animals’ Work”
On May 18-19, 2018, the Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics research group (APPLE) at Queen’s University will be hosting a workshop on the emerging topic of animal labour. For both humans and non-human animals, work is often an important dimension of life, and a fundamental determinant of well-being. At its best, work can […]
CFP: Decolonizing Animals: AASA 2019
EXTENDED CLOSING DATE FOR ABSTRACTS: October 30th 2018. Decolonizing Animals, will be held in Ōtautahi (Christchurch), Aotearoa (New Zealand) from July 1-4, 2019. The conference will be hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies / Te Puna Akoranga o Aotearoa mō te Tangata me te Kararehe. All sessions will take place at The Piano, a beautiful […]
CFP: Animaladies II – December 2018 (Due 30th April)
CFP Animaladies II Conference Date: December 13-14, 2018. Location: University of Wollongong, Wollongong Campus Papers which address the following themes are welcome: Cultural politics of protest Actions and distraction Sanctuaries and sanctum Utopia and dystopia We will have two types of papers (indicate when submitting which you prefer): 20 min presentations (with 10 minutes question […]
CFP: Social difference and nature: contesting narratives of elitism
1st June 2018; University of Edinburgh Organisers: Krithika Srinivasan, University of Edinburgh & Karen Bickerstaff, University of Exeter Keynote speaker: Prof. Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine These times that have come to be christened the Anthropocene are characterised by two contradictory but connected features: 1) the extensive and significant negative impacts of human […]
Exhibition: Remembering Animals: Rituals, Artifacts and Narratives
Curated by Julia Schlosser This exhibit will look at the ways in which contemporary artists contemplate and investigate aspects of animal death, from the very personal loss of a companion animal to the “invisible” animal deaths we are constantly surrounded by, including factory farmed and road-killed animals. ARTISTS: Steve Baker Curtis Bartone Joe Bautista Linda […]
Call for Papers – Animals and the Left
One-Day Workshop, NYU Animal Studies 29 June 2018, New York City Organisers: Sunaura Taylor (NYU), Troy Vettese (NYU), and Alyssa Battistoni (Yale) In 1917 Rosa Luxemburg wrote to a friend from her prison cell in Breslau: The hide of a buffalo is proverbial for its toughness and thickness, but this tough skin had been broken. […]
Some new publications in Animal Studies
Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (Columbia University Press, 2018): https://cup.columbia.edu/book/speculative-taxidermy/9780231180719 David Herman, ed., Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2018): https://bloomsbury.com/us/animal-comics-9781350015319/ David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life (Oxford University Press, 2018): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/narratology-beyond-the-human-9780190850401?cc=us&l… Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments […]
British Animal Studies Network – Sex – program available
This meeting will address issues including animal sexuality, the law, the conservation and reproduction of species, the place of animals in the sexual sciences, spontaneous generation, artificial insemination, and zoophilia from a range of disciplinary perspectives. To register to attend the meeting please click here to be taken to the University of Strathclyde online shop. […]
CALL FOR PAPERS – Animal History Group Summer Conference
‘Animal Histories’ King’s College London, 28-29 June 2018 Keynote speaker: Dolly Jørgensen We are delighted to announce that, following the success of our inaugural summer workshop in 2017, the Animal History Group will be holding a two-day conference in London this June. This event will conclude the 2017–18 programme of events organised by the Animal […]