Book: ‘Meat Culture’ – edited by AASA Committee Member Annie Potts
Meat Culture is now available – featuring an amazing line up of authors and topics. The analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the […]
Animal Liberation Currents ejournal available now
The digital magazine of animal liberation politics is here! After many months of preparation, Animal Liberation Currents is now live! Providing regular, in-depth coverage of animal liberation politics and struggle, campaign dialogues, engagement with fundamental theoretical debates, and offering detailed analysis of strategy. Featuring writers and contributors such as Zipporah Weisberg, Natalie Khazaal, Colin Salter, […]
Combined Book Launch ‘Animals, Ethics and Politics’
Launch address: Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (UOW) Sunday 11 December 3.30pm, Green Lion Hotel (downstairs), 726 Darling Street, Rozelle, NSW Featuring Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan (UNSW Australia) The Political Turn in Animal Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Drs Matthew Chrulew (Curtin) & Dinesh Wadiwel (Sydney) Foucault and Animals (Brill, 2016) Dr Peter Chen (Sydney) Animal […]
Latest publications by our members
Teya Brooks Pribac, ‘Crazy Animaladies’, Mascara Literary Review no.19 Only Animals, September 2016: http://mascarareview.com/teya-brooks-pribac/ Laura Jean McKay, ‘Crossing the Threshold: Domestic Territory and Nonhuman Otherness in Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth’, Otherness: Essays and Studies, 5 (2) September 2016. http://www.otherness.dk/fileadmin/www.othernessandthearts.org/Publications/Journal_Otherness/Otherness__Essays_and_Studies_5.2/7_Laura_Jean_McKay_-_Chrossing_The_Threshold.pdf Jane Mummery, Debbie Rodan & Marnie Nolton, ‘Making Change: Digital Activism and Public Pressure Regarding […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]