CFP: Animal Studies Journal Special Issue ‘Flourish’ deadline 5 December
Coinciding with and complementing the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s 2021 online conference ‘Flourishing Animals’ [see https://artsfront.com/event/137832-flourishing-animals], Animal Studies Journal invites contributions to a special issue on this theme. AASA’s conference focus emphasises the importance of nonhuman animal resilience, flourishing and vitality despite the current interrelated threats posed by anthropogenic crises and ongoing colonial power structures. […]
Call for Papers for AASA2021: Flourishing Animals
This conference focuses on resilience and flourishing in animal lives. The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) calls for paper and panel proposals for its online conference in late November and early December 2021. Proposals are encouraged in a range of themes including: First Nations and decolonial perspectives on animal flourishing; animal flourishing amidst capitalist economies and geographies of […]
European Association for Critical Animal Studies Conference dates for 2021
EACAS has announced the dates for the 7th biennial conference – May 24-25, 2021. The conference will be virtual. Calls for papers will be announced soon via the website: https://www.eacas.eu/ and/or twitter @eacas_eu
CFP: Animal Satire – deadline reminder
Animal Satire Editors Susan McHugh (University of New England) and Robert McKay (University of Sheffield) Intelligent interest in or ethical commitment to animals has always been a rich source and target of satire or parody. Recent kerfuffles about the publication and then withdrawal of spoof essays about dogs on the Berlin wall, by a collective known […]
Call for Papers: Animalia, An Anthrozoology Journal
Calling all Animal Studies scholars and undergrads! Animalia: An Anthrozoology Journal (https://www.animaliajournal.org/) is an online, digital journal for Anthrozoology/Animal Studies scholars and talented undergraduate students. This project was created and is maintained by a handful of students and alumni of the Anthrozoology Master of Science program at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, under the guidance of […]
Call for Papers: #ECPG21 Fundamental Challenges to European Politics: Gender, Race, Intersectionality, and the More-Than-Human
Call for Papers for the #ECPG21 (European Conference on Politics and Gender, 7-9 July 2021, University of Ljubljana). Due 29 November, 2020. At the dawn of the Anthropocene, the category of the human (the “anthropos” of the new era) needs to be critically examined. This need goes against the dominant tendencies in political theory and […]
Call for Chapters/Short Stories: Radical Intimacies: A Multispecies Politics of Care and Kinship
Due: 1 December 2020 Editors: Yamini Narayanan (Deakin University) and Kathryn Gillespie (University of Kentucky) Intimate forms of connection and care are ubiquitous in multispecies relationships, and they become legitimate forms of knowledge in fleeting moments of encounter as well as in the course of lifetimes lived together care-fully. This edited collection centers these latter forms of intimacy […]
Call for Papers: European Society for Environmental History Conference
The submission deadline is 31st October 2020. European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is hosting its biennial conference, themed “Same planet, different worlds: environmental histories imagining anew” at the University of Bristol, UK July 5-9, 2021. Proposals are invited that move from the premise of an entangled world: first and foremost enmeshed in a global pandemic, a […]
Call for Papers: Sinophone Literature and the Environmental Humanities
Tamkang Review, Special Issue, June 2021.Due 30 November, 2020. In their introduction to The Environmental Humanities (MIT Press, 2017), the authors Robert S. Emmett and David E. Nye sum up the state of affairs of the planet. They repeat what many other environmentalist thinkers and activists are reporting and supporting with scientific evidence: species extinction […]
Call for papers: Dreams and the Animal Kingdom in Culture and Aesthetic Media
23-25 September 2021 | Saarland University | Saarbrücken (Germany) International and Interdisciplinary Conference held by the Research Centre ‘European Dream-Cultures’, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) Animal dreams — dreams of animals, by animals, and inspired by animals — have concerned poets, mythographers, fabulists, dramatists, painters, musicians, choreographers, filmmakers, and writers of short fictions. […]