Colin Dayan. Princeton University Press, 2013.
Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state–all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order.
Through an examination of ideas such as anthropocentrism and the social construction of animals, it looks at how animals are symbolically transformed, presented, and re-presented as part of human culture.
In a first for Australia, a conference with a focus on large animals in rescue situations, disasters, transport safety and event related incidents will be held in South Australia this November.
When you are caught in The Animal Gaze Returned, you will find that the fascination of animal worlds poses conceptual and ethical challenges to human priorities. Artists in this exhibition
Panel: Representing Animals: Nonhuman ‘Others’ in Human Publics.
20-24 November 2013.Chicago, IL
11 – 12 October 2013.University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
This meeting will look at a range of ways in which animal studies might address birds, insects, bats or other winged creatures.
This symposium brings together cross-disciplinary approaches to ecological studies to explore symbioses between creation and criticism.
The Year 2050 might seem far away, but the current generation of children will only be in their forties and will be raising families. This series of lectures targets three of the key issues that will likely shape the nature of human food in 2050. All lectures are free and open to the public.
ICAS 3rd European Conference.
28-30 November 2013. Karlsruhe, Germany