CFP: How humans think (chirped the sparrow): Art-jamming the anthropological machine
Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art AAANZ Conference 2018 December 5-8, 2018, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Call for papers for the panel – How humans think (chirped the sparrow): Art-jamming the anthropological machine Session convenor(s): Fernando do Campo (University of New South Wales) Submit paper proposals to: f.docampo@unsw.edu.au The ‘question […]
CFP: Animal nationalisms: Multispecies cultural politics, race, and nation un/building
Registrations now open – the event is free – via eventbrite Inspired by a special issue submission for the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Animals have long been entangled with global cultural politics of nation-building and nationalism. In North America, both cattle and horses, as domesticated laboring animals, have been foundationally deployed as tools of colonialism, […]
CFP – New Directions in Animal Advocacy, Sydney, Australia
New Directions in Animal Advocacy 10-11 December 2018 – Call for Papers The Human Animal Research Network of the University of Sydney invites participation in the New Directions in Animal Advocacy conference in late 2018. Animal advocacy organisations have increasingly been developing networks to exchange practical and experiential lessons on advocacy, but often with the […]
CFP – Animal Rights and Animal Politics in Asia
International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 11) University of Leiden Leiden, The Netherlands, 16-19 July 2019 At the forthcoming International Convention of Asian Scholars there will be an entire day dedicated to Animal Rights and Animal Politics in Asia (ARAPA). We are holding four distinct sessions for participants that will cover didactic (head-based) topics such […]
Call for Papers: James Joyce and Non-Human in James Joyce Quarterly
James Joyce Quarterly Special Issue Call for Papers: Joyce and the Non-Human (abstract deadline June 30th, 1st draft articles by January 15th 2019) The idea for this issue began with a panel for the Toronto Joyce Symposium on “Our Funnaminal World,” which later turned into the theme for this year’s Zurich James Joyce Workshop (“Joycean Animals”). […]
CFP: Decolonizing Animals: AASA 2019
EXTENDED CLOSING DATE FOR ABSTRACTS: October 30th 2018. Decolonizing Animals, will be held in Ōtautahi (Christchurch), Aotearoa (New Zealand) from July 1-4, 2019. The conference will be hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies / Te Puna Akoranga o Aotearoa mō te Tangata me te Kararehe. All sessions will take place at The Piano, a beautiful […]
CFP: Animaladies II – December 2018 (Due 30th April)
CFP Animaladies II Conference Date: December 13-14, 2018. Location: University of Wollongong, Wollongong Campus Papers which address the following themes are welcome: Cultural politics of protest Actions and distraction Sanctuaries and sanctum Utopia and dystopia We will have two types of papers (indicate when submitting which you prefer): 20 min presentations (with 10 minutes question […]
CFP: Social difference and nature: contesting narratives of elitism
1st June 2018; University of Edinburgh Organisers: Krithika Srinivasan, University of Edinburgh & Karen Bickerstaff, University of Exeter Keynote speaker: Prof. Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine These times that have come to be christened the Anthropocene are characterised by two contradictory but connected features: 1) the extensive and significant negative impacts of human […]
Call for Papers – Animals and the Left
One-Day Workshop, NYU Animal Studies 29 June 2018, New York City Organisers: Sunaura Taylor (NYU), Troy Vettese (NYU), and Alyssa Battistoni (Yale) In 1917 Rosa Luxemburg wrote to a friend from her prison cell in Breslau: The hide of a buffalo is proverbial for its toughness and thickness, but this tough skin had been broken. […]
CALL FOR PAPERS – Animal History Group Summer Conference
‘Animal Histories’ King’s College London, 28-29 June 2018 Keynote speaker: Dolly Jørgensen We are delighted to announce that, following the success of our inaugural summer workshop in 2017, the Animal History Group will be holding a two-day conference in London this June. This event will conclude the 2017–18 programme of events organised by the Animal […]