AASA Conference 2023 – Animal Cultures

The 2023 Conference of the Australasian Animal Studies Association will be held in-person at the University of Sydney on the 27th and 28th of November 2023.

The Conference theme – Animal Cultures – encompasses emerging scientific and philosophical considerations of culture in non-human animal communities, as well as culturally-informed human views of other animals. Cultural transmission has been observed in a wide array of species (Whiten 2021), facilitating the acquisition of social and ecological knowledge and behaviours that influence biological and social wellbeing (Brakes et al. 2019). Applying a cultural focus can be problematic, as it considers non-human animals through an anthropocentric construct. Animal Cultures will address the affordances and complexities of “culture/s” within animal studies.

• Keynote speaker: Professor Emerita Carol Gigliotti
• Conference provisional program (PDF)
• Panels, Papers and Bios (PDF)
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• Call for Papers (closed)

Optional Conference merchandise (AUD$25) is available for order through the registration system and will be distributed at the Conference (indicative image):