CFP: ‘Impound, Outlaw’
Call for papers for a paper panel at the 2020 ICMS in Kalamazoo sponsored by the Rossel Hope Robbins Library. “Impound, Outlaw” (Paper Panel) Organizers: Mead Bowen and Marissa Crannell-Ash With the animal turn, analysis of medieval interactions between humans and animals has shifted from considering animals as mere symbols or resources—readings that have largely […]
CFP – Researching Ethically with (other) Animals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
13 September 2019, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Invited speakers [more speakers TBC] Prof. Fiona Probyn Rapsey, University of Wollongong Associate Professor Grazyna Zadjow, Chair of Human Research Ethics, Deakin UniversitySara Paradowski, Manager, Deakin Research Integrity Research and scholarship focusing on nonhuman animals in the Humanities and Social sciences is of increasing importance in Australia, as it […]
CALL FOR PAPERS: RETHINKING CANID-HUMAN RELATIONS
CONFERENCE AT BROCK UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER 21-22, 2019 (Pond Inlet) Sponsored by Department of Sociology, Brock University; Niagara Action for Animals; Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Dancing Fox, Ohara Shoson, 1877-1945 Our relations with canids are particularly intense: we welcome some into our homes as family members but others are regarded as demonic […]
Call for Chapters: Animals and Race
Animals and Race — Edited collection, by Jonathan W. Thurston When Iago informs Brabantio that “a black ram is tupping your white ewe” (I.i.87-88) in Shakespeare’s Othello, he is doing more than identifying the two protagonists’ races. He is referring to the early modern agricultural fact that black wool was undesirable, as per Leonard Mascall, and […]
CFP: BASN meeting Movements
The British Animal Studies Network’s upcoming meeting, ‘Movements,’ will be held at the University of Leeds on November 22-23, under the direction of Lourdes Orozco, Jonathan Saha and Tom Tyler. If you are interested in giving a paper addressing the topic ‘Movements’ from whatever disciplinary perspective please submit your title, with an abstract of no more than […]
CFP: Animal Ethics: Questioning the Orthodoxy
The interdisciplinary journal Animals invites submissions to a special issue on the following topic: Animal Ethics: Questioning the Orthodoxy. Guest editors: Herwig Grimm and Susana Monsó (Messerli Research Institute Vienna). Deadline for submissions: September 30.It has become commonplace to refer to the success of animal ethics and the animal turn in philosophy. Since Singer and Regan published their […]
CFP: Special Issue Proposal for Environment and Planning E
Guest editors: Yamini Narayanan (Deakin) and Krithika Srinivasan (Edinburgh) In the last few years in India, cows have been mobilised prominently in efforts to ‘restore’ the geophysical Indian state as a Hindurashtra, or a racially ‘pure’ Hindu nation. The ‘protection’ of the cow, an animal paired with upper-caste Brahmins in certain interpretations of Hindu scriptures, has […]
British Animal Studies CFP: Movements
The CFP for the autumn 2019 BASN meeting has just gone live. ‘Movements’ will be held at the University of Leeds on 22 and 23 November, under the direction of Lourdes Orozco, Jonathan Saha and Tom Tyler. If you are interested in giving a paper addressing the topic ‘Movements’ from whatever disciplinary perspective please submit […]
Politics and Animals announces that the 2019 issue is open for submissions!
Politics and Animals is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that explores the human-animal relationship from the vantage point of political science and political theory. It hosts international, multidisciplinary research and debate — conceptual and empirical — on the consequences and possibilities that human-animal relations have for politics and vice versa. As part of the 2019 issue, […]
CFP: Canadian Animal Law Conference – Learning from the past, looking to the future
October 4 – 6, 2019SCHULICH SCHOOL OF LAW, Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaOctober 4 – 6, 2019 – Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Featuring a keynote address by Professor Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation The field of animal law in Canada has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. Law schools across the […]