Pre-conference Event – #AASA2017
Guided Tour of Animal Themed Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace, Adjacent to The University of Adelaide. Sunday 2nd July, 2017, 1.45pm – 2.45pm Before the conference opening and the Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture, take a guided hour tour of the Art Gallery of South Australia, where the guide will focus […]
New issue Animal Studies Journal now available online
Volume 6 issue 1 is now available online Editorial, Contents and Contributor bios: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/1/ Provocations from the Field: Rick De Vos Extinction, Encountering and the Exigencies of Forgetting: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/2/ Henrietta Mondry – Selecting Candidates for De-extinction and Resurrection: Mammoths, Lenin’s Tomb and Neo-Eurasianism: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/3/ Carolyn Mason – The Unnaturalness Objection to De-Extinction: A Critical Evaluation: […]
AASA Travel Scholarships Awarded
We are pleased to announce that the AASA Travel Scholarships for the AASA2017 Conference have been awarded to:- Esther Alloun (PG): ‘The promised land for vegans’: identity, culture and place in the making of Israeli animal activism’ Sarah Bezan (International PG): Crace’s ‘The Devil’s Larder’ and the edibility of human, animal, and vegetable bodies’ Andrea […]
CFP: Animals in Public – Care, Charisma and Knowledge
Animals in Public: Care, Charisma and Knowledge CFP for a panel at Science in Public (10th-12th July, 2017): Panel submission deadline, 18th April 2017 This panel focuses on questions of how knowledge about animals is communicated, constituted and utilised in the public sphere. Animals have often played significant yet under-examined roles in engagements between science […]
Funded PhD Studentship Network in Yorkshire: Imagining and Representing Species Extinction Deadline 17th May 2017
Announcing three fully-funded three-year PhD studentships as part of a WRoCAH White Rose Network at the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York Final Application Deadline 17th May 2017. Applicants must already have been admitted to the relevant PhD programme by this date in order to apply. Imagining and Representing Species Extinction http://wrocah.ac.uk/new-student/networks/#extinction University of Sheffield […]
Postdoctoral Research Assistantship, University of Reading — Birds & People in the Southern Levant
Postdoctoral Research Assistant – Birds & People in the Southern Levant University of Reading – Archaeology http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYD515/postdoctoral-research-assistant-birds-and-people-in-the-s… Location: Reading Salary: £29,301 to £38,183 per annum Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Contract / Temporary Placed on: 21st March 2017 Closes: 18th April 2017 Job Ref: SRF17610 This is a 22-month Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) position to […]
PhD Position: “Transforming city landscapes: Human-cattle relationships and the making of urban societies“
Doctoral/postgraduate positions Faculty of Social Sciences – Social and Cultural History – Human-Animal Studies (Prof. Dr. Mieke Roscher) – start of the programme 01.06.2017 Job-Nr. 21109734 /Doctoral/postgraduate positions (EG 13 TV-H) Part time, with 50,00 percent of the regular weekly work time of a fully employed person, limited to three years, to collaborate in the […]
CFP: Conference Taxidermic Forms and Fictions
TAXIDERMIC FORMS AND FICTIONS: Call for Papers for SLSA Conference, November 9 – 12th, 2017, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. In our exploration of taxidermic forms and fictions, we will develop methods, frameworks, and paradigms that enable us to contextualize taxidermic practice in the wake of the anthropocene, an era of unparalleled species loss. How […]
CFP: Antennae Special Issue ‘Post-Truth Age’
ANTENNAE: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture is seeking submissions for a special issue titled, ‘Post-truth Age.’ As more literally than ever, all that is solid melts into the air, there never has been quite as much at stake in the very notion of truth. While apocalyptic visions of the Anthropocene appear closer than […]
CFP: Animal Sanctuaries
The editors of a special edition of the Animal Studies Journal on animal sanctuaries, edited by Elan Abrell, seek articles that consider animal sanctuaries as unique sites of human-animal interaction that both influence and are influenced by the way animals are treated and understood in larger contexts. How do animal sanctuaries contribute to the broader […]