Politics and Animals announces that the 2019 issue is open for submissions!
Politics and Animals is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that explores the human-animal relationship from the vantage point of political science and political theory. It hosts international, multidisciplinary research and debate — conceptual and empirical — on the consequences and possibilities that human-animal relations have for politics and vice versa. As part of the 2019 issue, […]
CFP: Canadian Animal Law Conference – Learning from the past, looking to the future
October 4 – 6, 2019SCHULICH SCHOOL OF LAW, Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaOctober 4 – 6, 2019 – Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Featuring a keynote address by Professor Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation The field of animal law in Canada has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. Law schools across the […]
News: Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law
The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law will officially be launched on 26 April 2019 Why animal rights law? The welfare of animals has been on moral, social, and legal agenda since the 19th century, and many countries have made significant progress in passing animal welfare legislation. The concept of animal rights as such has […]
Fellowships: Burning Questions Fellowship Award
Fellowships to tackle problem of global industrial food animal production. • The fellowships are meant primarily for academic researchers (including independent scholars) interested in helping to address negative impacts of global industrial food animal production (especially in low- and middle-income countries).• All applicants must hold PhD/doctoral degree or be enrolled in PhD/doctoral programs.• There are […]
Dr Alex Lockwood on public vigils for nonhuman animals
Alex Lockwood is a writer, activist and public speaker. Please visit his website for more info and updates: http://alexlockwood.co.uk/ ‘It’s a busy one today,’ says the guy with the goatee beard, who we often talk to as he arrives for work. He does shoulders with a boning blade. ‘About nine hundred.’ We absorb the news. We’ve […]
Melbourne Reading Group 2019 – ‘A Focus on Seminal Works in Animal Studies’
The Human Rights and Animal Studies Research Network (HRAE) runs a monthly reading group. Each group is held on the last Monday of the Month at 6-7pm. This year the focus is on seminal/early works in Animal Studies – recognising that many of us come to the field from other disciplines with different bibliographic heritages. […]
Conferences in 2019
Here’s some of the wonderful conferences taking place in 2019 around the globe. Please let me know if we’ve missed anything – info@animalstudies.org.au. Graduate Workshop: Knowing Through Animals: The Animal Turn in History of Science. February 2, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University. For more information, email ai2298@columbia.edu. Public Values in Conflict with Animal […]
CFP: Beastly Modernisms, September 12-13, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
If modernism heralded a moment of socio-political, cultural and aesthetic transformation, it also instigated a refashioning of how we think about, encounter, and live with animals. Beasts abound in modernism. Virginia Woolf’s spaniel, T.S. Eliot’s cats, James Joyce’s earwig, D.H. Lawrence’s snake, Samuel Beckett’s lobster, and Djuna Barnes’s lioness all present prominent examples of where […]
CFP: Animals in World Religions
The journal Religions will be publishing a special issue on the subject of animals in world religions, to be edited by Dr. Anna Peterson. In recent decades, nonhuman animals have become an important focus of scholarly work in the humanities and social sciences. Anthropologists, literary scholars, historians, philosophers, and others have examined diverse issues including the […]
CFP: “We are Best Friends”: Animals in Society
The Journal Social Sciences will be publishing a special issue, with the theme of: “We are Best Friends”: Animals in Society, edited by Leslie Irvine. Friendships between humans and non-human animals were once dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. After all, who could claim to be friends with a being who did not speak the same language? […]