Category: CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS: Seeing with Animals Conference

The Seeing with Animals conference will run in conjunction with the Living with Animals conference at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, from March 22-26, 2017. The theme of this year’s conference is Co-Existence. http://livingwithanimals.eku.edu Seeing with Animals, in keeping with the theme Co-Existence, will explore the ways that images of animals have been deployed—both […]

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 […]

CFP: Fourth Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School–The Ethics of Fur

The Ethics of Fur 23-26 July 2017, at St Stephen’s House, Oxford in partnership with Respect for Animals Every year more than 60 million animals are killed and sold by the international fur industry. It represents one of the largest uses of animals today. This Summer School will examine the ethics of the treatment of […]

CFP: Special Issue of Humanities on ‘Joyce, Animals and the Nonhuman’

Deadline for proposal submissions: 31st October 2016 Humanities, an international, scholarly, open access journal, and its Guest Editor, Dr Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield), are seeking proposals for a Special Issue focused on ‘James Joyce, Animals and the Nonhuman’. The Special Issue is scheduled to appear in September 2017, with a manuscript delivery deadline of […]

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 […]

Call for papers – Antennae CFP: Animals and Film

The centrality of animals to the history of film, and the particular powers and properties of the animal image on film require no introduction. This issue of Antennae will be entirely dedicated to this subject.

Sixth International Conference on Food Studies

Call for Papers: The 2016 meeting will feature a special focus on this provocative subject. We welcome open debate, discourse and research from participants that center on this special topic, as well as the yearly conference themes described below, and any other issues relevant to food studies

Animaladies

From ‘crazy cat ladies’ to ‘deranged’ animal advocates occupying a ‘lunatic fringe’ (Wolfe, 5), the spectre of the ‘crazy’ label is never too far from the ‘question of the animal’. Understanding how the ‘madness’ of our instrumentalised relationships with animals intersects with the ‘madness’ of taking animals seriously, is the major task of this Symposium. Animaladies are also a potential obstacle to connections with other progressive movements, and as such, they warrant specific attention and careful analysis.

Animal Studies Journal

Scholars from all areas of human-animal studies are welcome to submit an original article to be considered for publication in ASJ.