CFP: "Impound, Outlaw" ICMS Kalamazoo 2020
Call for papers for a paper panel at the 2020 ICMS in Kalamazoo sponsored by the Rossel Hope Robbins Library.
"Impound, Outlaw" (Paper Panel)
Organizers: Mead Bowen and Marissa Crannell-Ash
H-Animal aims to serve as an on-line home for scholars across disciplines who are engaged on the study of animals in human culture.
Be sure to check out the new syllabus contributions by Jody Berland, David Herman, Piers Locke, and Michal Pregowski in the Syllabus Exchange!
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Recent Content
CFP: On the edge of the Anthropocene: crossing borders in southern African environmental history
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE: On the edge of the Anthropocene: crossing borders in southern African environmental history.
Some Recent Publications of Note
Here is an admittedly incomplete list of some recent or forthcoming publications that might be of interest to H-Animalistas:
André Krebber and Mieke Roscher, eds., Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives (Palgrave, 2018): https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319982878
CFP: The beast epic – forgotten by the animal turn?, ICMS Kalamazoo (May, 7-10, 2020)
Despite a growing body of exciting research on medieval animality, the beast epic, which should loom large in this area of interest, has largely remained on its side lines.
Call for Participants: Workshop “Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene: Captivity/Escape” (Utrecht University, 7–9 Nov. 2019)
In the context of my ongoing research project, “Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene”, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), I am organizing a series of three workshops to explore the past, present, and future of the zoo as a space of the imagination which both mirrors and shapes the broader cultural understanding of the natural world and our relationship to it. Over the last two decades, in the context of growing public awareness of climate change and mass extinction, that relationship has been changing.