Australasian Animal Studies Association

Conferences in 2019

Here’s some of the wonderful conferences taking place in 2019 around the globe.  Please let me know if we’ve missed anything – info@animalstudies.org.au. Graduate Workshop: Knowing Through Animals: The Animal Turn in History of Science. February 2, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University. For more information, email ai2298@columbia.edu. Public Values in Conflict with Animal […]

CFP: Beastly Modernisms, September 12-13, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

​If modernism heralded a moment of socio-political, cultural and aesthetic transformation, it also instigated a refashioning of how we think about, encounter, and live with animals. Beasts abound in modernism. Virginia Woolf’s spaniel, T.S. Eliot’s cats, James Joyce’s earwig, D.H. Lawrence’s snake, Samuel Beckett’s lobster, and Djuna Barnes’s lioness all present prominent examples of where […]

CFP: Animals in World Religions

The journal Religions will be publishing a special issue on the subject of animals in world religions, to be edited by Dr. Anna Peterson.  In recent decades, nonhuman animals have become an important focus of scholarly work in the humanities and social sciences. Anthropologists, literary scholars, historians, philosophers, and others have examined diverse issues including the […]

CFP: “We are Best Friends”: Animals in Society

The Journal Social Sciences will be publishing a special issue, with the theme of: “We are Best Friends”: Animals in Society, edited by Leslie Irvine. Friendships between humans and non-human animals were once dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. After all, who could claim to be friends with a being who did not speak the same language? […]

Journal News: “Political Animals: Ethics, Policy, and Practice.”

The study of human-animal relationships is now an established multi-disciplinary field. In addition, growing political debates over humanity’s troubled relationship with animals spanning the wild-domestic spectrum makes nonhuman animals a matter of pressing environmental, social, and global concern. As our connection with animals is increasingly on the public agenda, it is timely for the field […]

British Animal Studies Network CFP ‘Emotion’

A reminder that the call for papers for ‘Emotion’, the next meeting to be held on 26 and 27 April 2019 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, is still open until 18 January 2019. If you are interested in giving a paper addressing the topic ‘Emotion’ from whatever disciplinary perspective please submit your title, with […]

CFP: Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE)

Call for Papers:  The Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) is now accepting proposals for its annual conference, to be held at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, April 26-27, 2019. Now in its twelfth year, SFARE provides a collegial setting for advanced graduate students and established scholars to present material […]

CFP: BASN on the topic of Emotion

The CFP for the next BASN meeting is now open (closing on 18 Jan 2019). This meeting is titled ‘Emotion’ and will take place at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on 26 and 27 April 2019. Details can be found on http://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/…/Emotion.aspx

CFP: Creaturely Ethics and Poetics, June 2019, UK

CFP: Creaturely Ethics and Poetics Conference: 11th Critical Management Studies Conference Date: June 27-29, 2019 Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Chief Convenor: Victor J Krawczyk Please see website for more information: https://www.creaturelyethicsconferencestream.com/ The convenors of this stream welcome submissions that explore the vulnerability of diverse subjects – both animal and human – within […]

CALL FOR PAPERS for the 4th Biennial Conference: Living with Animals

Theme: Some we love, some we hate, some we eat, some we need. Co-organizers: Robert W. Mitchell, Radhika Makecha, and Michał Pręgowski. “Living with Animals 4” is an Animal Studies conference about all things animal and human-animal interaction, occurring at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). EKU, located in Richmond, Kentucky, just south of Lexington, “The Horse Capital of […]