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Thom van Dooren has co-edited a special issue of Environmental Humanities entitled ‘Multispecies Studies’, along with Ursula Munster, Eben Kirksey, […]
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Archives, Books & Journals, In the News
New Edition of the Animal Studies Journal now available
The latest edition of the Animal Studies Journal was initially conceived by associate editor Sally Borrell who framed the call
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Animaladies Program now available
The Conference Program for Animaladies is now available at the HARN: Human Animal Research Network website. Over 2 days there
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DV and Animal Abuse- Perspectives 2016
Lucy’s Project will present the second annual conference on animals affected by domestic violence, bringing together speakers from Australia and
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Series: Why Animal Studies?
The Animals in Society Working Group, based at Flinders University, SA have started a new series called ‘Why Animal Studies?’.
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Announcement: Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship
The RSPCA Australia Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship is intended to celebrate Sybil Emslie’s life-long commitment to the care and
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Latest publications by our members
Jill Bough, 2016. ‘Our stubborn prejudice about donkeys is shifting as they protect Australia’s sheep from wild dogs’, Australian Zoologist,
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ZOOSCOPE: Animals in film archive
ZooScope is an encyclopaedia of animals on film. Each article includes information and analysis about the presence and meaning of animals in a film. ZooScope welcomes the submissions of articles via this website.
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Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary art
January 23, 2016 – March 27, 2016, David Winton Bell Gallery, Rhode Island, USA
At a time when natural history museums are moving away from taxidermy, there has been a resurgence of interest in popular culture—in Internet blogs and image collections, in fashion, home décor, and advertising—as well as in art practice. The exhibition is organized around four prevalent themes that draw particular strength from taxidermy—in which the fact that the animal is real and dead imparts meaning.
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The Art of the Animal: Fourteen Women Artists Explore “The Sexual Politics of Meat”
The Art of the Animal explores contemporary women artists’ engagement with how women and animals are depicted and treated.