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
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.