Research Associate Fellow/Senior Research Fellow
The University of Nottingham, UK, has posted for a Research Associate Fellow/Senior Research Fellow the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSP). Deadline: February 3, 2020. The purpose of this role is to carry out research as part of the Animal Research Nexus Programme, an ambitious five-year project which is funded by the Wellcome Trust (https://animalresearchnexus.org/). If appointed, you will […]
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Animal Studies
The Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Animal Studies. Applications are due by February 1, 2019. This is a one-year non-renewable 12-month fellowship, supporting a researcher with demonstrated expertise in animal ethics, law and public policy.While we interpret animal ethics, law and public policy broadly, and welcome applications from various disciplines […]
Jobs: Communications Officer, Vienna
The Jane Goodall Institute is looking for a Communications Coordinator/Officer, Roots & Shoots Program based in their Vienna, VA US-HQ. The Institute’s mission is to understand and protect chimpanzees, other apes, and their habitats, and to work towards creating an informed and compassionate citizenry who will help to create a better world for people, other animals and our […]
Animals Across Discipline, Time and Space
Animals Across Discipline, Time & Space, a new exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, runs January 4 – March 21, 2020. The exhibition uses art to explore the role of animals in the Anthropocene era by bringing together works by five North American artists who use animal imagery to critically address […]
Antennae special print editions
Antennae has released two special print editions, Issues #47 and #48, dedicated to the rise of interest in art and science collaborations. Available for a limited press run of 300 copies each. Issue #47, “Experiment,” and Issue #48, “Interface,” total almost 500 pages of full-color images, essays, interviews and artist portfolios. These collections feature original contributions […]
Talks from the 2019 International Animal Rights Conference available
The 2019 International Animal Rights Conference, Luxemburg has released 33 videos from the conference.
CFP: The Victorian Nonhuman. Animal Studies, Ecocriticism and Beyond
CFP for panel contributions for the British Association of Victorian Studies annual conference, 20-22 July in Birmingham. For more information, go to https://bavs2020.com/panel-roundtable-cfps/#nonhuman. In Victorian studies over the past couple of decades, a division has formed between animal studies and ecocriticism, which loosely follows a contemporary political divide between animal rights activism and environmentalism. Although these […]
‘Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)Making of the Settler Nation-State’
Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 41, 2020, Issue 1 Edited by Kathryn Gillespie & Yamini Narayanan Available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjis20/current How have (other) animals been used – in fact, made central – to the exclusions, marginalisations and enclosures that constitute nation-un/making? Featuring provocative and brilliant analysis from authors, arguing for not only a decolonial but […]
CFP: Workshop on Organisms and Capitalism, Harvard University
Animal Spirits: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Creatures of Capitalism Workshop at the Weatherhead Center (Canada Program)27–28 April 2020, Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA ‘Even apart from the instability due to speculation, there is the instability due to the characteristic of human nature […] our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be […]
CFP: Human-Animal Encounters in the Middle East
Special Issue of Diyâr on “Human-Animal Encounters in the Middle East” Over recent decades, the multidisciplinary field of human-animal studies has encouraged researchers to move beyond geographical, methodological, and disciplinary boundaries and to understand, explain and analyse human and non-human animals within shared social, cultural, economic, political, and ecological spaces. Despite a growing body of […]