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Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary art

Lynn Mowson / February 2, 2016

January 23, 2016 – March 27, 2016, David Winton Bell Gallery, Rhode Island, USA

At a time when natural history museums are moving away from taxidermy, there has been a resurgence of interest in popular culture—in Internet blogs and image collections, in fashion, home décor, and advertising—as well as in art practice. The exhibition is organized around four prevalent themes that draw particular strength from taxidermy—in which the fact that the animal is real and dead imparts meaning.

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Animaladies

Committee / February 1, 2016

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

Committee / January 10, 2016

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)

Committee / January 5, 2016

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?

Committee / January 2, 2016

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

Committee / October 2, 2015

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)

Committee / September 2, 2015

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”

Lynn Mowson / September 2, 2015

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

Lynn Mowson / September 2, 2015

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

Lynn Mowson / September 2, 2015

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