A New Decade of Minding Animals – Teya Brooks Pribac in Conversation with Dr Rod Bennison
This year Minding Animals International Inc. (MAI) celebrates its 11th birthday. It’s been a busy decade for MAI and the numerous associated groups worldwide. AASA speaks with Dr Rod Bennison, the driving force behind MAI, in anticipation of the next MAI international conference scheduled for July 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Rod has been involved in […]
RSPCA Australia: Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship 2020
Applications close on Friday 7 August 2020 The Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship celebrates Sybil Emslie’s life-long commitment to the care and protection of animals by encouraging legal scholarship and practice dedicated to advancing animal welfare. The $1,000 annual scholarship will be awarded to a law student or lawyer who has a strong academic record […]
New Member Article: Where species don’t meet: Invisibilized animals, urban nature and city limits
by AASA Members – Paula Arcari, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Hayley Singer. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, July 2020This is behind a paywall – so if you don’t have institutional access – try your local or state libraries. Abstract A growing body of literature is concerned with ‘healing’ our cities, fostering an ethic of care […]
Call for proposals EACAS Conference: Animal Futures: Animal Rights in activism and academia
European Association for Critical Animal StudiesCall for presentation proposals: Please send your abstract (max 300 words) to conference@loomus.ee by September, 30, 2020. Presentations can be made by Skype.Venue: Pärimusmuusika Ait, Viljandi, EstoniaDate: May 8th 2021 – May 9th 2021 Critical animal studies scholars and animal advocacy activists have long argued that human-animal relations are in a […]
Call for Blog Contributions: AASA/Minding Animals
In support of the next Minding Animals Conference, entitled Animals and Climate Emergency Conference (MAC5, Sydney, July 2021), and to encourage discussion on critical aspects affecting our planetary communities, AASA is calling for blog contributions centred around the MAC5’s themes and subthemes listed below and at: https://www.mindinganimals.com/conferences/mac5/ We invite submission of blog proposals and/or completed […]
Call for Submissions: Critical Animal Studies Perspectives on COVID-19
Animal Studies Journal Special Issue: Edited by Chloe Taylor, Kelly Struthers Montford and Eva Kasprzycka From its genesis to its impacts, animal advocates and critical animal studies scholars have observed that the COVID-19 pandemic, and other zoonotic disease epidemics that have preceded it, highlight the devastating repercussions of human exploitation of other animals, and the […]
Scholarship Opportunity: HDR – Posthumanities, Animalities, Environments: Transformative Concepts and Methods for the Anthropocene.
Applications are now open for HDR scholarships at Curtin University that align with strategic projects. https://study.curtin.edu.au/higher-degree-by-research/rtp-scholarship/ Expressions of interest are sought from domestic Australian candidates working in areas aligned with the research program Posthumanities, Animalities, Environments: Transformative Concepts and Methods for the Anthropocene. Over the last few decades, the status of ‘the human’ has been challenged […]
New Issue: Animal Studies Journal available online
The latest issue of the Animal Studies Journal is now available online go to: https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/ or click on the links below to take you directly to the articles. Current Issue: Volume 9, Number 1 (2020) Animal Studies Journal 2020 9(1): Cover Page, Table of Contents, Editorial and Contributor BiographiesMelissa Boyde A Multispecies Doula Approach to […]
CFP: Animality and Textuality (Word and Text)
CALL FOR PAPERSWord and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguisticsspecial issue Animality and TextualityGuest editor: Rodolfo Piskorski In “But as for me, who am I (following)?”, the second section of The Animal That Therefore I Am, Jacques Derrida contextualises his interest in a certain passage in Plato’s Phaedrus as a systematic interest in what […]
CFP: Environmental History Workshop 2020
Building on the successes of two previous meetings (2018, Institute of Historical Research; 2019, Northumbria University) the Environmental History Workshop is very excited to share this CFP for our third meeting, which is to be hosted by the University of Liverpool. This one-day event will take place on 8 September 2020. Update: The global Covid-19 pandemic […]