Latest publications by our members
Thom van Dooren has co-edited a special issue of Environmental Humanities entitled ‘Multispecies Studies’, along with Ursula Munster, Eben Kirksey, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and Anna Tsing. Articles include: Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirskey, and Ursula Münster: ‘Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness’, Environmental Humanities 8 (1) June 2016; and Thom van Dooren and […]
New Edition of the Animal Studies Journal now available
The latest edition of the Animal Studies Journal was initially conceived by associate editor Sally Borrell who framed the call for papers with a quote from Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake: Can a single ant be said to be alive in any meaningful sense of the word or does it only have relevance in […]
Animaladies Program now available
The Conference Program for Animaladies is now available at the HARN: Human Animal Research Network website. Over 2 days there will be 8 panel sessions, a keynote by Professor Lori Gruen, and the launch of the exhibition ‘Animaladies’ curated by Maddi Boyd, Melissa Boyde and Yvette Watt at Interlude Gallery. 11 & 12 July 2016 […]
DV and Animal Abuse- Perspectives 2016
Lucy’s Project will present the second annual conference on animals affected by domestic violence, bringing together speakers from Australia and across the globe to talk about the challenges, triumph and methodologies used to bring about change. The key speakers include Frank Ascione, (Pets in Peril USA, Dr Freda Scott-Park (The Links Group, Scotland) and Allie […]
Series: Why Animal Studies?
The Animals in Society Working Group, based at Flinders University, SA have started a new series called ‘Why Animal Studies?’. In their first post Niki Rust reflects on the way human-animal studies has influenced her work. To read this story go to Animals in Society Working Group.
Announcement: Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship
The RSPCA Australia Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship is intended to celebrate Sybil Emslie’s life-long commitment to the care and protection of animals by encouraging legal scholarship and practice dedicated to advancing animal welfare. The $1,000 annual scholarship will be awarded to a law student or lawyer who has a strong academic record and a […]
Latest publications by our members
Jill Bough, 2016. ‘Our stubborn prejudice about donkeys is shifting as they protect Australia’s sheep from wild dogs’, Australian Zoologist, 38 (1): 17-25. Thom van Dooren, 2016. ‘The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene’, Angelaki:Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 21 (2): 193-212. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel, 2016. ‘Like One Who is Bringing his Own Hide to […]
ZOOSCOPE: Animals in film archive
ZooScope is an encyclopaedia of animals on film. Each article includes information and analysis about the presence and meaning of animals in a film. ZooScope welcomes the submissions of articles via this website.
Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary art
January 23, 2016 – March 27, 2016, David Winton Bell Gallery, Rhode Island, USA
At a time when natural history museums are moving away from taxidermy, there has been a resurgence of interest in popular culture—in Internet blogs and image collections, in fashion, home décor, and advertising—as well as in art practice. The exhibition is organized around four prevalent themes that draw particular strength from taxidermy—in which the fact that the animal is real and dead imparts meaning.
The Art of the Animal: Fourteen Women Artists Explore “The Sexual Politics of Meat”
The Art of the Animal explores contemporary women artists’ engagement with how women and animals are depicted and treated.