Call for Applications for the 2019 ASI-UIUC Summer Institute
ASI-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Third Annual Human-Animal Studies Institute Call for Applications – Application Deadline: February 28, 2019 The Animals & Society Institute and the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for the third annual Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute program for advanced graduate students and early career scholars […]
CFP: Creaturely Ethics and Poetics, June 2019, UK
CFP: Creaturely Ethics and Poetics Conference: 11th Critical Management Studies Conference Date: June 27-29, 2019 Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Chief Convenor: Victor J Krawczyk Please see website for more information: https://www.creaturelyethicsconferencestream.com/ The convenors of this stream welcome submissions that explore the vulnerability of diverse subjects – both animal and human – within […]
Animaladies II – program and registration
The Program for Animaladies II is available at: http://www.uowblogs.com/asrn/animaladies-program/
Varda Mehrotra on Personhood: The Principle and the Practice
PERSONHOOD: THE PRINCIPLE AND THE PRACTICE Varda Mehrotra, Executive Director of Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO) CONCEPT OF PERSONHOOD OF ANIMALS There is a growing debate as to what the legal classification of animals should be. Presently, within most cruelty prevention statutes across the world, animals are defined as property, (with limited instances […]
CALL FOR PAPERS for the 4th Biennial Conference: Living with Animals
Theme: Some we love, some we hate, some we eat, some we need. Co-organizers: Robert W. Mitchell, Radhika Makecha, and Michał Pręgowski. “Living with Animals 4” is an Animal Studies conference about all things animal and human-animal interaction, occurring at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). EKU, located in Richmond, Kentucky, just south of Lexington, “The Horse Capital of […]
PhD scholarship opportunity – The University of Queensland
Architecture beyond the human: an investigation into the design of buildings housing non-human animals This research project investigates the ways in which contemporary architecture brings non-human animals into human societies and economies, transforming them and ourselves in the process. The research responds to urgent environmental challenges that demand the reassessment and reconfiguration of our relationship […]
Animaladies II Program and Registration
Register to attend Animaladies II Animaladies Program: Thursday December 13th 9.45 Acknowledgment of Country & Welcome: Fiona Probyn-Rapsey 10.00 Keynote Lecture : pattrice jones Chair: Melissa Boyde 11.00 Morning Tea 11.30 Chair: Alison Moore Chair: Eva Meijer – Sanctuary politics and the borders of the demos Chloe Taylor – Of gimps, gastropods, and grief Sharri Lembryk […]
CFP: How humans think (chirped the sparrow): Art-jamming the anthropological machine
Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art AAANZ Conference 2018 December 5-8, 2018, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Call for papers for the panel – How humans think (chirped the sparrow): Art-jamming the anthropological machine Session convenor(s): Fernando do Campo (University of New South Wales) Submit paper proposals to: f.docampo@unsw.edu.au The ‘question […]
Two amazing PhD Scholarships available – Animals and Urban Planning in India – Deakin University
UPDATED DEADLINE: 31st January 2019 India emerges as a critical site of biodiversity conservation and species-inclusive planning in the Urban Age. India’s scale and speed of urbanisation is almost unprecedented: in the next two decades, India, together with China, is expected to be home to almost a third of the world’s urban population. Due to […]
CFP: Animal nationalisms: Multispecies cultural politics, race, and nation un/building
Registrations now open – the event is free – via eventbrite Inspired by a special issue submission for the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Animals have long been entangled with global cultural politics of nation-building and nationalism. In North America, both cattle and horses, as domesticated laboring animals, have been foundationally deployed as tools of colonialism, […]