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
The Animals and Society Institute and Wesleyan Animal Studies runs annual summer fellowships for scholars pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies.
Dawne McCance. SUNY Press, 2012 Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies is now taking shape as a wide-open, multidisciplinary
Edited by Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell. Columbia University Press, 2013
In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them.
Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics.
The May 2013 issue of the Journal of the History of Biology is a special issue featuring four research papers on the Early Modern history of animal experimentation.