2024 Val Plumwood lecture
2024 VAL PLUMWOOD LECTURE SOCIAL LIVE OF ANIMALS: DOMINATION. INTERSECTIONALITY & HETEROTOPIA DR ERIKA CUDWORTH AASA is delighted to invite you to join us for the 2024 Val Plumwood lecture. This year the lecture will be delivered by Dr Erika Cudworth. Erika works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, […]
AASA 2023 Prize Recipients
AASA 2023 Prize Announcement AASA 2023 Prize Recipients AASA was very excited to announce prize winners at the Animal Cultures Conference Dinner. The 2023 prizes were donated by AASA members, in honour of the late Associate Professor Siobhan O’Sullivan. The 2023 Journal Article by an Early Career Researcher Prize ($500) was awarded to authors Jes Hooper, Thomas Aiello, Kristine Hill, Michelle Szydlowski, Sarah Oxley […]
Member Showcase – Jen Valender
Member / Artist Jen Valander Jen Valender | Field 3 February 2024 – 5 May 2024 Animal Studies member and artist Jen Valender’s exhibition Field presents a new body of work developed during Valender’s creative residency at the University of Melbourne’s Agricultural Campus in Dookie for the Centre of Visual Arts’ Art + Ecology program. […]
2023 AASA Popular Communication of Animals Studies Prize
Claudia Hirtenfelder, who won the AASA Popular Communication Prize in 2021. The 2023 Australasian Animal Studies Association Popular Communication of Animal Studies Prize is awarded to a member or members of the Association who have worked systematically to promote the insights and research findings of their peers in the field of Animal Studies, therein increasing […]
2023 AASA Journal Article by an Early Career Researcher Prize
The Australasian Animal Studies Journal Article Prize recognises excellence in the work of early-career researchers. The prize is focused on the work of scholars in the production of scholarly journal articles in the field of animal studies. The 2023 prize was donated by AASA members, in honour of the late Associate Professor Siobhan O’Sullivan. Nomination […]
Call For Papers – AASA Conference
Australian Animal Studies Association is holding their first conference post COVID and we are seeking papers. More information soon! Please submit your EOI here.
Member blog: Rebecca Hendershott
The paths we take are rarely linear. Mine has felt like I keep circling around the same topic – knowing animals – but from different angles. I have explored animal rights, intersubjectivity, and conservation, with various species as my teachers. As a child, family pets taught me to think beyond the human – to recognise […]
Member Blog: Natalie Lis
I work in an avian-centric home and cohabitate with a combination of distinct individuals. Sharing a home and garden with birds is anchored in a relationship of respect. Each bird is an independent adult who has their own ideas of friendship, hobbies and food preferences; and while some birds stand on my head while I […]
Member blog: Siobhan O’Sullivan
I did a traditional politics degree, with little to no nonhuman animal content. When I got to honours level I was told that I could write about ‘anything’. At that time I was very involved in animal protection politics. I decided that anything could stretch to animals. I wrote my honours thesis on nonhuman animals […]
Inaugural AASA Prizes Awarded
On the last day of the AASA2021 Conference: Flourishing Animals, we met to award the two new AASA Prizes: The 2021 AASA Journal Article by an Early Career Researcher Prize This prize recognises excellence in the work of early-career researchers. The prize is focused on the work of scholars in the production of scholarly […]