ANIMALADIES Exhibition sneak preview
A sneak peak at one of the works to be exhibited at ANIMALADIES exhibition and postcard project, Interlude Gallery, Glebe, 11 – 22 July 2016. Michele Elliot there dear (1837) (2016) Hand and machine embroidery, tea-dyed cotton, 15 x 20cm A narrative practice utilising textiles to weave memories, stories and materials together as installations, wall […]
Rowena Lennox: Safe Place (Dingoes)
On 21 June 2016 brief news reports appeared online stating that six dingoes had been found dead at Orchid Beach on Fraser Island (K’gari). All the reports (ABC, The Courier-Mail, Yahoo!7News and Sky News) noted that one dingo’s body was found in a shallow grave. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS), who manage most of […]
Children and animal abuse webinar series out now
From The Animal & Society Institute: Over the past few months ASI’s Human-Animal Programs Director Lisa Lunghofer presented a series of three webinars about the impact of animal abuse on children. Now that the three-part series has concluded the reviews are in and people are praising the webinars, here is a sampling of they have […]
Undergraduate Paper Prize
Undergraduate Paper Prize The Animals & Society Institute (ASI) and Wesleyan Animal Studies (WAS) invite applications for the fourth annual undergraduate prize competition for undergraduate students pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies. ASI and WAS will award a prize to an outstanding, original theoretical or empirical scholarly work that advances the field of human-animal studies. Papers […]
Latest publications by our members
Thom van Dooren has co-edited a special issue of Environmental Humanities entitled ‘Multispecies Studies’, along with Ursula Munster, Eben Kirksey, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and Anna Tsing. Articles include: Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirskey, and Ursula Münster: ‘Multispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness’, Environmental Humanities 8 (1) June 2016; and Thom van Dooren and […]