ASI – film reviews
The Animal and Society Institute are pleased to announce a new resource on the ASI website: film reviews by Dr. Pete Porter, Professor and Chair of Theatre and Film at Eastern Washington University. The first three reviews can be found here: Unlocking the Cage The Secret Life of Pets The Dog Lover: The Wrong Side of Right
Human/Animal/Artist: Art Inspired by Animals
Human/Animal/Artist: Art Inspired by Animals opens 20 November 2016 – 19 February 2017, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery. It includes international and local sculptors, painters, photographers, video installation and performance artists, and musicians: Lauren Berkowitz, Catherine Chalmers (USA), Catherine Clover, Joe Japananka James, Nicholas Mangan, Vera Möller, Samuel Namunjdja, Sean Peoples, Elizabeth Presa, David Rothenberg (USA), Sandra Selig, Tai […]
Animaladies Exhibition – Catalogue & Postcards available
The Animaladies Catalogue is available here. Following on from the showing of Duck Lake Redux, 2016 at Animaladies – The Duck Lake Project is now online – focusing on AASA Member Yvette Watt’s project to intervene in the duck shooting season in Tasmania. Say it with…Animaladies postcards …for a special occasion, season’s greeting and for […]
Animal Issues 1997-2000 now available online
The journal Animal Issues, published in 8 issues between 1997 – 2000, is now online. The aim of the journal Animal Issues was to investigate philosophical and ethical issues related to human/animal interactions. It was published in 8 issues between 1997 – 2000 under the general editorship of Dr. Denise Russell, Department of General Philosophy, […]
CFP: Animal Narratology
by Joela Jacobs Animal Narratology A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). Dear Colleagues, Storytelling is often cited as one of the characteristics that distinguishes humans from animals; yet, a look at world literature reveals many animals as the narrators of our tales. Animals speak not only in fables and fairy tales, but also narrate […]
ANIMALADIES EXHIBITION – 2016
The ANIMALADIES exhibition and postcard project brings together a total of 24 artists, some of whom work collaboratively, including Prince the pony. The exhibition was developed in conjunction with the conference of the same name at the University of Sydney (11–12 July, 2016). The term ANIMALADIES was coined by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey with an intention to […]
Animaladies Exhibition – sneak preview
Works to be exhibited at ANIMALADIES exhibition and postcard project, Interlude Gallery, Glebe, 11 – 22 July 2016. Andre Brodyk Autopoietic Blur (2016). Microscopy image of living transgenic E.coli Acknowledgement: Dr Ian Grainge UoN Australian pioneer in bioart, Andre works with scientists at the University of Newcastle on expanded painting projects that reveal boundaries of life/non-life at […]
ANIMALADIES Exhibition sneak preview
A sneak peak at one of the works to be exhibited at ANIMALADIES exhibition and postcard project, Interlude Gallery, Glebe, 11 – 22 July 2016. Michele Elliot there dear (1837) (2016) Hand and machine embroidery, tea-dyed cotton, 15 x 20cm A narrative practice utilising textiles to weave memories, stories and materials together as installations, wall […]
Children and animal abuse webinar series out now
From The Animal & Society Institute: Over the past few months ASI’s Human-Animal Programs Director Lisa Lunghofer presented a series of three webinars about the impact of animal abuse on children. Now that the three-part series has concluded the reviews are in and people are praising the webinars, here is a sampling of they have […]
Undergraduate Paper Prize
Undergraduate Paper Prize The Animals & Society Institute (ASI) and Wesleyan Animal Studies (WAS) invite applications for the fourth annual undergraduate prize competition for undergraduate students pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies. ASI and WAS will award a prize to an outstanding, original theoretical or empirical scholarly work that advances the field of human-animal studies. Papers […]