Call for papers – Art and Sustainability in the Anthropocene
We welcome papers that analyse the effectiveness of addressing sustainability and climate change within the art world through case studies of contemporary art. Must an artist also be a political activist to have an impact, or can an effective work be primarily aesthetically driven? How do we gauge effectiveness July 12-14, University of Glasgow. The […]
CFP for a themed issue of Image & Text: “Visual Cultures of Race and Animality”
Call for Papers Image & Text no. 30 December 2017 Issue Editors: Dr Benita de Robillard and Dr Ruth Lipschitz Article submission: 30 April 2017 Publication: 30 December 2017 – January 2018 Length: 5000-7000 words All submissions and general enquiries should be sent directly to both of the issue editors: benita.derobillard@wits.ac.za ruthl@uj.ac.za Themed Issue: “Visual […]
Animals Studies Living Bibliography
As the field of animal studies continues to grow it is becoming more and more difficult to keep up with new publications. This is a particularly pressing problem given the interdisciplinary nature of the field. How can an individual with a specialism in literary studies, for example, hope to know what is cutting edge in […]
Co-Existence Art Exhibition: Call for Artist Entries
“Animals are born, are sentient and are mortal. In these things they resemble man. … in their habits, in their time, in their physical capacities, they differ from man. They are both alike and unlike.” (John Berger, Why Look at Animals?) The relationship between animals and humans is complex, varied and a long one that […]
CALL FOR PAPERS: Seeing with Animals Conference
The Seeing with Animals conference will run in conjunction with the Living with Animals conference at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, from March 22-26, 2017. The theme of this year’s conference is Co-Existence. http://livingwithanimals.eku.edu Seeing with Animals, in keeping with the theme Co-Existence, will explore the ways that images of animals have been deployed—both […]
Animaladies: Call for Book Chapters
Co-editors: Professor Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (University of Wollongong, AUS) Animaladies will inquire into the associations between gender, species and madness. It will highlight how ‘animaladies’ are expressive of political and psychological discontent, how the pathologisation of human-animal relationships blocks empathy towards animals, and how the characterisation of animal advocacy as […]
Art Laboratory Berlin: Aural Aquatic Presence
Aural Aquatic Presence Seminar: Living Systems | Aquatic Systems with Robertina Šebjanic, Kat Austen, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz in the framework of the exhibition Aural Aquatic Presence. 18 September, 2016, 2-6PM The current exhibition project artistically explores the interplay and intercommunication between animal and machine while focusing on the aquatic environment. Within this […]
CFP: Fourth Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School–The Ethics of Fur
The Ethics of Fur 23-26 July 2017, at St Stephen’s House, Oxford in partnership with Respect for Animals Every year more than 60 million animals are killed and sold by the international fur industry. It represents one of the largest uses of animals today. This Summer School will examine the ethics of the treatment of […]
Registration for BASN Conference now open
British Animal Studies Network: Conserving — University of Sheffield November 18-19, 2017 Registration is open for the BASN Conserving Meeting at the University of Sheffield on 18-19 November 2017. Keynote speakers are Helen Tiffin, David Farrier and Rosaleen Duffy. More information about the event, including the meeting schedule, papers and abstracts, and how to register […]
CFP: Special Issue of Humanities on ‘Joyce, Animals and the Nonhuman’
Deadline for proposal submissions: 31st October 2016 Humanities, an international, scholarly, open access journal, and its Guest Editor, Dr Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield), are seeking proposals for a Special Issue focused on ‘James Joyce, Animals and the Nonhuman’. The Special Issue is scheduled to appear in September 2017, with a manuscript delivery deadline of […]