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 […]
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Public forum: Veg*n Sustainability Workshop
The Veg*n Sustainability Workshop addresses the politics of human food consumption as an integral component of a carbon-conscious institutional change agenda within institutions.
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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?
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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.
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AASA Postgrad Grant ($600) Sponsor: AASA
The AASA is delighted to announce that we will be offering a small grant ($600) for any AASA postgraduate member who is successful in their application for the Postgraduate Symposium being organised by the BASN (British Animal Studies Network), to be held May 2016.
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AASA Postgrad Grant for NZ $ (400)
AASA is delighted to announce we will be offering a small grant ($400) for any AASA postgraduate member who is accepted to present a paper at this conference (See below for Conference Call
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The Art of the Animal: Fourteen Women Artists Explore “The Sexual Politics of Meat”
The Art of the Animal explores contemporary women artists’ engagement with how women and animals are depicted and treated.
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Environmental Film Festival Melbourne
5-13 September 2015
A selection of new films traversing the relationship between humans and their environments
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Special Edition of NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies – Spring 2015 – Animals
Special Edition of NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies – Spring 2015 – Animals Guest edited by Professor Barbara Creed and Maarten Reesink – this edition of NECSUS features the
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Animaladies
From ‘crazy cat ladies’ to ‘deranged’ animal advocates occupying a ‘lunatic fringe’ (Wolfe, 5), the spectre of the ‘crazy’ label is never too far from the ‘question of the animal’. Understanding how the ‘madness’ of our instrumentalised relationships with animals intersects with the ‘madness’ of taking animals seriously, is the major task of this Symposium. Animaladies are also a potential obstacle to connections with other progressive movements, and as such, they warrant specific attention and careful analysis.