‘Hearing’ 19 and 20 May 2017 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow With confirmed plenary speaker Cary Wolfe (Rice University) As well as being a celebration of the 10th anniversary […]
British Animal Studies Network: Conserving — University of Sheffield November 18-19, 2017 Registration is open for the BASN Conserving Meeting at the University of Sheffield on 18-19 November 2017. Keynote
The Conference Program for Animaladies is now available at the HARN: Human Animal Research Network website. Over 2 days there will be 8 panel sessions, a keynote by Professor Lori
Lucy’s Project will present the second annual conference on animals affected by domestic violence, bringing together speakers from Australia and across the globe to talk about the challenges, triumph and
25th to 27th November 2016
International Conference at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department for German and Comparative 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
An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference
31st May 2016 – University of Oxford
Building on the increasing prominence of the ‘animal turn’ in the humanities in the last decade, and the recent publication of Laura Wright’s The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in an Age of Terror (University of Georgia Press, 2015), this conference will seek to ask what kind of place veganism and/or ‘the vegan’ should occupy in our theorizations of human-animal relations, animal studies, and the humanities in general.
Presented by the Feminist Research Network (FRN) and the Material Ecologies Research Network (MECO)
Report on proceedings available at: http://www.uowblogs.com/frn/2016/02/22/report-beyond-the-human-feminism-and-the-animal-turn-symposium/
A multidisciplinary approach from behavioral and social sciences
Animals were domesticated thousands of years ago and are now present in almost every human society around the world. Nevertheless, only recently scientists have begun to analyse both positive and negative aspects of human-animal relationships.
Exploring how visibility and invisibility (removal from sight) make us more or less comfortable about different types of animal use by considering how exposure weakens support for animal use and/or leads to increased tolerance of that use.