Exhibition: ANIMAL LOVERS – Berlin
ANIMAL LOVERS 15 October – 27 November 2016 Cats are entitled to the pension, chickens have social security and cows have union representation. If all domesticated animals had civil rights they would be able to participate in policymaking and could no longer be eaten. Fellow citizens cannot be eaten. Whereas some animals in our society […]
Exhibition: ANIMALITY
ANIMALITY Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK November 3 – December 17, 2016 “If animals have been the protagonists of innumerable myths, subject to countless scientific studies and featured in some of our most extraordinary works of art and literature, why have they not been more central to the way we humans study our own relation […]
Exhibition: Making Nature: How we see animals
Wellcome Collection, London, UK 1 December 2016 – 21 May 2017 The question of how humans relate to other animals has captivated philosophers, anthropologists, ethicists and artists for centuries. This exhibition will bring together over 100 objects from literature, film, taxidermy and photography to examine the historical origins of our ideas about other animals and […]
Exhibition: Popular Pet Show at the National Portrait Gallery
The Popular Pet Show will express the joy and warmth that many of us derive from our animal companions, and will celebrate their trusting, unpretentious ways. The Popular Pet Show Friday 4 November 2016 until Monday 13 March 2017 National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Comprising exuberant recent Australian paintings, many on a large scale, it will include […]
Animal Liberation Currents ejournal available now
The digital magazine of animal liberation politics is here! After many months of preparation, Animal Liberation Currents is now live! Providing regular, in-depth coverage of animal liberation politics and struggle, campaign dialogues, engagement with fundamental theoretical debates, and offering detailed analysis of strategy. Featuring writers and contributors such as Zipporah Weisberg, Natalie Khazaal, Colin Salter, […]
Combined Book Launch ‘Animals, Ethics and Politics’
Launch address: Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (UOW) Sunday 11 December 3.30pm, Green Lion Hotel (downstairs), 726 Darling Street, Rozelle, NSW Featuring Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan (UNSW Australia) The Political Turn in Animal Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Drs Matthew Chrulew (Curtin) & Dinesh Wadiwel (Sydney) Foucault and Animals (Brill, 2016) Dr Peter Chen (Sydney) Animal […]
Latest publications by our members
Teya Brooks Pribac, ‘Crazy Animaladies’, Mascara Literary Review no.19 Only Animals, September 2016: http://mascarareview.com/teya-brooks-pribac/ Laura Jean McKay, ‘Crossing the Threshold: Domestic Territory and Nonhuman Otherness in Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth’, Otherness: Essays and Studies, 5 (2) September 2016. http://www.otherness.dk/fileadmin/www.othernessandthearts.org/Publications/Journal_Otherness/Otherness__Essays_and_Studies_5.2/7_Laura_Jean_McKay_-_Chrossing_The_Threshold.pdf Jane Mummery, Debbie Rodan & Marnie Nolton, ‘Making Change: Digital Activism and Public Pressure Regarding […]
AASA 2017 – Animal Intersections – Exhibition call for artists
Conference: ‘Animal Intersections’ University of Adelaide, July 3 – 5, 2017 Exhibition venue and dates: TBC (expected run of a minimum of two weeks) Exhibition curator: Victor J. Krawczyk To intersect means to come across another being on their course, to occasionally even intercept this other. An intersection is the fact or action of crossing […]
Call for Papers: AASA Conference 2017 ‘Animal Intersections’
July 3-5 at University of Adelaide, Australia Increasingly, Animal Studies turns towards the question of intersections: where, how and why human and animal lives intersect. Intersectionality offers us a way to explore interconnectedness to advance our understanding of the complex ways we relate to and interact with other animals and each other. Key note speakers […]
Call for Papers: Hearing
‘Hearing’ 19 and 20 May 2017 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow With confirmed plenary speaker Cary Wolfe (Rice University) As well as being a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the first ever British Animal Studies Network meeting, this is our final engagement with the senses in Glasgow: following ‘Looking’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Tasting’ and ‘Smelling’, ‘Hearing’ […]