CFP: Sloth: A Journal of Emerging Voices in Human-Animal Studies

The Animals & Society Institute’s Sloth: A Journal of Emerging Voices in Human-Animal Studies is seeking submissions for its Summer 2020 issue from undergraduate students and recently-graduated students from all disciplines. The deadline is April 1, 2020. Sloth is an online bi-annual journal the showcases the important and innovative contributions of undergraduates, giving those who are interested in human/non-human animal relationships a […]

Entanglements: Humans, Animals, Environments

The 2020 Public lecture Series ‘Entanglements: Humans, Animals, Environments’ will commence on Thursday March 5th – 5pm.  These talks have been organised by the Animal Studies Research Network (ASRN) and the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS), in conjunction with Wollongong Art Gallery.  The next speaker is Dr Rowena Lennox on the subject of Dingoes of K’Gari Island.  When: […]

CFP: ‘Animals, Ethics and Law’ session, Sweden, August 24-26

CFP for panel contributions for the special session “Animals, Ethics and Law in a more-than-human world” at the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) conference, 24-26 August at Lund University, Sweden. This session of the 2020 RCSL conference invites scholars across the academe to discuss the social, political, and ethical dimensions of the current […]

Save the Date: Minding Animals Conference Sydney

The Minding Animals Animals and Climate Emergency Conference (ACEC) conference and events will be held over 22 to 29 July, 2021, in Sydney, Australia, in a central Sydney city venue. A conference registration website and the call for abstracts will appear mid-year. In the meantime, please see mindinganimals.com for further information. For information, please contact Rod Bennison at acec@mindinganimals.com.

Save the date: Sport, Animals and Ethics conference 2021

The Faculty of Kinesiology of the University of New Brunswick is hosting a two-day conference on Sport, Animals, Ethics, May 26-28, 2021. Paper proposals will be welcomed from all disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Watch for the Call for Abstracts in October 2020. For more information, contact Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet tymowski@unb.ca and Sam Morris morrissp@miamioh.edu.

CFP: ISAZ 2020

ISAZ 2020: One Health, One Welfare: Wellbeing for all in human-animal interactions. June 29 – July 3, 2020, Liverpool, UK. The call for abstracts will close on February 3, 2020

CFP: Aotearoa Animal Rights Conference

The Aotearoa Animal Rights Conference, AARC2020, Together for Animals, is seeking submissions from people wanting to share their ideas, experiences and methods for making the world a better place for animals. Submission deadline is February 1, 2020.

CFP: Ecofeminism In/And The Anthropocene Panel

The European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, University of Innsbruck, August 26 – 28, 2020 includes a panel, Ecofeminism In/And The Anthropocene, with a CfP submission deadline of February 1, 2020. Contact: Chair: Robert Booth (University of Liverpool) robert.booth@liverpool.ac.uk; Co-chair: Andy Holland (University of Liverpool) holland@liverpool.ac.uk. 

CFP: Toward an Understanding of Nonhuman Minds: From Animal to Artificial Agency

The conference Toward an Understanding of Nonhuman Minds: From Animal to Artificial Agency will take place in at the Universität Zürich, Switzerland invites papers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including, but not limited to, anthropology, history, human-animal studies, literature, and sociology). The workshop offers a platform for collaboration and the exchange of ideas by reassessing the possibilities, boundaries, and […]

CFP: Animal Rights: Advocacy and Academia. Ireland

Animal Rights: Advocacy and Academia, 15-16 May, 2020, National University of Ireland Galway. Deadline is January 21, 2020. This symposium will address the academy’s comparatively recent focus on animal rights and consider the relationship of that academic interest to the practice of advocacy for nonhuman animals, with the aim of investigating how animal advocacy and animal scholarship can […]