Exhibition: Remembering Animals: Rituals, Artifacts and Narratives
Curated by Julia Schlosser This exhibit will look at the ways in which contemporary artists contemplate and investigate aspects of animal death, from the very personal loss of a companion animal to the “invisible” animal deaths we are constantly surrounded by, including factory farmed and road-killed animals. ARTISTS: Steve Baker Curtis Bartone Joe Bautista Linda […]
Call for Papers – Animals and the Left
One-Day Workshop, NYU Animal Studies 29 June 2018, New York City Organisers: Sunaura Taylor (NYU), Troy Vettese (NYU), and Alyssa Battistoni (Yale) In 1917 Rosa Luxemburg wrote to a friend from her prison cell in Breslau: The hide of a buffalo is proverbial for its toughness and thickness, but this tough skin had been broken. […]
Some new publications in Animal Studies
Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (Columbia University Press, 2018): https://cup.columbia.edu/book/speculative-taxidermy/9780231180719 David Herman, ed., Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2018): https://bloomsbury.com/us/animal-comics-9781350015319/ David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life (Oxford University Press, 2018): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/narratology-beyond-the-human-9780190850401?cc=us&l… Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments […]