Australasian Animal Studies Association

CFP: Ecofeminism In/And The Anthropocene Panel

The European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, University of Innsbruck, August 26 – 28, 2020 includes a panel, Ecofeminism In/And The Anthropocene, with a CfP submission deadline of February 1, 2020. Contact: Chair: Robert Booth (University of Liverpool) robert.booth@liverpool.ac.uk; Co-chair: Andy Holland (University of Liverpool) holland@liverpool.ac.uk. 

CFP: Toward an Understanding of Nonhuman Minds: From Animal to Artificial Agency

The conference Toward an Understanding of Nonhuman Minds: From Animal to Artificial Agency will take place in at the Universität Zürich, Switzerland invites papers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including, but not limited to, anthropology, history, human-animal studies, literature, and sociology). The workshop offers a platform for collaboration and the exchange of ideas by reassessing the possibilities, boundaries, and […]

CFP: Animal Rights: Advocacy and Academia. Ireland

Animal Rights: Advocacy and Academia, 15-16 May, 2020, National University of Ireland Galway. Deadline is January 21, 2020. This symposium will address the academy’s comparatively recent focus on animal rights and consider the relationship of that academic interest to the practice of advocacy for nonhuman animals, with the aim of investigating how animal advocacy and animal scholarship can […]

CFP: Dogs and Conservation

The Journal of Vertebrate Biology is pleased to announce an upcoming Special Issue, “Dogs and conservation: current and emerging considerations,” with Guest Editors Dr. K. Whitehouse-Tedd (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Dr. N. Richards and Dr. M. Parker (both from Working Dogs for Conservation, USA). The deadline is March 31, 2020. The issue will focus on the role of dogs in applied […]

CFP: Book ‘Flann O’Brien & the Nonhuman: Animals, Environments, Machines’

Flann O’Brien & the Nonhuman: Animals, Environments, Machines (eds. Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, John Greaney). Deadline February 1, 2020.   Recent years have seen a remarkable rise in studies dedicated to the nonhuman turn in Irish literary and modernist contexts. Yet this proposed collection posits that the writing of Brian O’Nolan (pseud. Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen) constitutes a significant gap […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]