Call for Papers: Hearing

‘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 of the first ever British Animal Studies Network meeting, this is our final engagement with the senses in Glasgow: following ‘Looking’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Tasting’ and ‘Smelling’, ‘Hearing’ […]

Registration for BASN Conference now open

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 speakers are Helen Tiffin, David Farrier and Rosaleen Duffy. More information about the event, including the meeting schedule, papers and abstracts, and how to register […]

Animaladies Program now available

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 Gruen,  and the launch of the exhibition ‘Animaladies’ curated by Maddi Boyd, Melissa Boyde and Yvette Watt at Interlude Gallery.    11 & 12 July 2016 […]

DV and Animal Abuse- Perspectives 2016

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 methodologies used to bring about change. The key speakers include Frank Ascione, (Pets in Peril USA, Dr Freda Scott-Park (The Links Group, Scotland)  and Allie […]

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

‘With their skins on them, and … their souls in them’: Towards a Vegan Theory

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.

Beyond the human: Feminism and the animal turn

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/

Exploring Human – Animal Interactions

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.