Watch the 2024 Val Plumwood lecture
Click above to view the 2024 VAL PLUMWOOD LECTURE SOCIAL LIVE OF ANIMALS: DOMINATION. INTERSECTIONALITY & HETEROTOPIA DR ERIKA CUDWORTH AASA is delighted to share the 2024 Val Plumwood lecture. This year the lecture was delivered by Dr Erika Cudworth. Erika works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, […]
2024 Val Plumwood lecture
2024 VAL PLUMWOOD LECTURE SOCIAL LIVE OF ANIMALS: DOMINATION. INTERSECTIONALITY & HETEROTOPIA DR ERIKA CUDWORTH AASA is delighted to invite you to join us for the 2024 Val Plumwood lecture. This year the lecture will be delivered by Dr Erika Cudworth. Erika works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, […]
AASA 2023 Prize Recipients
AASA 2023 Prize Announcement AASA 2023 Prize Recipients AASA was very excited to announce prize winners at the Animal Cultures Conference Dinner. The 2023 prizes were donated by AASA members, in honour of the late Associate Professor Siobhan O’Sullivan. The 2023 Journal Article by an Early Career Researcher Prize ($500) was awarded to authors Jes Hooper, Thomas Aiello, Kristine Hill, Michelle Szydlowski, Sarah Oxley […]
Member Showcase – Jen Valender
Member / Artist Jen Valander Jen Valender | Field 3 February 2024 – 5 May 2024 Animal Studies member and artist Jen Valender’s exhibition Field presents a new body of work developed during Valender’s creative residency at the University of Melbourne’s Agricultural Campus in Dookie for the Centre of Visual Arts’ Art + Ecology program. […]
Inaugural AASA Prizes Awarded
On the last day of the AASA2021 Conference: Flourishing Animals, we met to award the two new AASA Prizes: The 2021 AASA Journal Article by an Early Career Researcher Prize This prize recognises excellence in the work of early-career researchers. The prize is focused on the work of scholars in the production of scholarly […]
Last week to register for AASA2021: Flourishing Animals
AASA2021: Flourishing Animals starts on the 30th October and runs through till the 2nd December. The conference is virtual, and all information is over on our conference website, hosted by ArtsFront. Registrations will close at 5pm AEDT, Monday 29th October. Registration is FREE to members, or the same cost as our membership fee AUD$60 for […]
Animail – AASA members magazine – latest issue out now
AASA members will have received their copies of the new format Animail today. Edited by Rowena Lennox, the issue has interviews with two of the keynote speakers for the forthcoming AASA2021: Flourishing Animals Conference, as well as an artwork in focus, information about AASA, the conference and a wonderful selection of new books in the […]
CFP: Animal Studies Journal Special Issue ‘Flourish’ deadline 5 December
Coinciding with and complementing the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s 2021 online conference ‘Flourishing Animals’ [see https://artsfront.com/event/137832-flourishing-animals], Animal Studies Journal invites contributions to a special issue on this theme. AASA’s conference focus emphasises the importance of nonhuman animal resilience, flourishing and vitality despite the current interrelated threats posed by anthropogenic crises and ongoing colonial power structures. […]
Member publication: Yamini Narayanan
Narayanan, Y. (2021). ‘Animating Caste: Visceral Geographies of Pigs, Caste And Violent Nationalisms in Chennai City.’ Urban Geography. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2021.1890954?journalCode=rurb20 What scholarly disciplines are most relevant to this publication? This paper reflects on how caste and species as identity categories intersect in political life in India, generating possibilities for such intersectional thinking well beyond India as […]
Member publication: Muhammad Kavesh
Kavesh, M. A. (2021). ‘Sensuous entanglements: a critique of cockfighting conceived as a “cultural text.”’ The Senses and Society. 16.2:152-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1858653 What scholarly disciplines are most relevant to this publication? My paper involves a critical re-examination of anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s famous essay on Balinese cockfighting. In addition, scholars interested in the study of hegemonic masculinity […]