Animaladies
July 11 & 12, 2016, University of Sydney, Australia Registrations are now open – for more information and to register click here. [Open post for hyperlink] Keynote: Lori Gruen, Professor of Philosophy, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University
Making Sense of the Animal – Human Bond and Relationship(s)
This conference invites scholars from many disciplines and across cultures to reflect upon the conundrum of meaning: we are same but different. What do animals mean in our personal lives as well as our societal and cultural lives? And how have those relationships been collaborative or at cross-purposes?
Animal Biographies – Recovering Animal Selfhood through Interdisciplinary Narration?
9-11 March 2016, University of Kassel, Germany
Animal Biographies 2016 attempts to evaluate both the challenges and potentials of biographical narration for the representation of material animals in their own rights, while posing the question if and in what way animal biographies might be suited to recover the life peculiar to animals.
Aotearoa/New Zealand Human-Animal Studies Conference
Hosted by NZCHAS at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, on 5 & 6 November 2015
This conference is an opportunity to showcase the research in HAS and CAS that is being conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand, in particular, and more widely in Australasia.
Conference on Animal Thinking and Emotion
Washington, DC, March 17-18, 2014.
International Large Animal Rescue Conference 2013
In a first for Australia, a conference with a focus on large animals in rescue situations, disasters, transport safety and event related incidents will be held in South Australia this November.
112th American Anthropological Association Meeting
Panel: Representing Animals: Nonhuman ‘Others’ in Human Publics.
20-24 November 2013.Chicago, IL
British Animal Studies Network: Winged creatures
11 – 12 October 2013.University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
This meeting will look at a range of ways in which animal studies might address birds, insects, bats or other winged creatures.
Ecological Australia: Ecocriticism in the Arts
This symposium brings together cross-disciplinary approaches to ecological studies to explore symbioses between creation and criticism.
2050 Food Lecture Series, UWA
The Year 2050 might seem far away, but the current generation of children will only be in their forties and will be raising families. This series of lectures targets three of the key issues that will likely shape the nature of human food in 2050. All lectures are free and open to the public.