CFP: THE ECO-SIDE OF AUSTRALASIAN LITERATURE
TAMKANG REVIEW Special Issue (December 2020): THE ECO-SIDE OF AUSTRALASIAN LITERATURE CALL FOR PAPERS Since the publication of CA Cranston and Robert Zeller’s edited The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers (2007) and Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin’s Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2010), the study and teaching of Australasian literature has witnessed more […]
CFP: Emerging Scholars Workshop in Law, Animals and Society
Hosted by the Animals & Society Research Initiative at the University of Victoria and supported by the Brooks Animal Studies Academic Network and the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy May 26-27, 2020 The conference will take place at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia The Animals & Society Research Initiative […]
NEW COURSE in HAS at University of Canterbury
NZCHAS and UC proudly announce a new Human-Animal Studies course taught by Associate Professor Nik Taylor, Semester 1 2020! Those who enjoyed “Bambi to Kong: Animals in Popular Culture” and “Reading Animals: Beast Fables to Graphic Novels” will love this course. Critical Animal Studies at its best! “Humans, Animals and Society” introduces students to the […]
Call for Applications: 2020 ASI-UIUC Summer Institute in Human-Animal Studies
Application deadline 28 February 2020 Are you a doctoral student or early career scholar? do you have a commitment to advance research in Human-Animal Studies? Follow the link to find out more about this opportunity:
Harvard Law School – visiting fellowship applications
CFP: ‘Impound, Outlaw’
Call for papers for a paper panel at the 2020 ICMS in Kalamazoo sponsored by the Rossel Hope Robbins Library. “Impound, Outlaw” (Paper Panel) Organizers: Mead Bowen and Marissa Crannell-Ash With the animal turn, analysis of medieval interactions between humans and animals has shifted from considering animals as mere symbols or resources—readings that have largely […]
Better ways to do research – an overview of methods and technologies that can replace animals’ by Dr Monika Merkes
A great resource has recently been published – ‘Better ways to do research – an overview of methods and technologies that can replace animals’ by Dr Monika Merkes, Humane Research Australia available by following the link here: http://www.humaneresearch.org.au
Burning Questions Research Planning Grants Program
Encouraging academic researchers to pursue burning questions Applications are open between August 7 – October 11, 2019 for funding towards the development of plans and emerging projects to study the ‘burning questions’. The “Burning Questions” are focused on the negative impacts of global industrial scale production of food animals (focusing especially on low- and middle-income countries) […]
AASA2019 Decolonizing Animals – keynotes available
The conference keynotes are now available – click here to see a small sample or the link to the full selection.
Nonhuman animal legal personhood – Sakshi Aravind
“The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas, are specifically addressed to man.” – John Berger, About Looking (2015) Although I have been thinking and writing about nonhuman legal personhood for a few years now, the last few days at the Sydney Multispecies Justice Symposia have made an unexpected difference in […]