We are offering TWO funded two-year MA studentships commencing August 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter.
We are offering TWO funded two-year MA studentships commencing August 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Coinciding with and complementing the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s 2021 online conference ‘Flourishing Animals’ [see http://animalstudies.org.au/flourishing-animals-aasa2021], Animal Studies Journal invites contributions to a special issue on this theme.
Invertebrate Art: Ecologies, Practices, Ethics
Sarah Wade, University of East Anglia, Sarah.Wade@uea.ac.uk
Pandora Syperek, Loughborough University London, P.Syperek@Lboro.ac.uk
Call for proposals for session at the Association for Art History Annual Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, 6-8 April 2022. CFP deadline 1 November 2021.
Modern utopias are fictional realizations of an optimistic belief in progress. However, in the cultural history of the 20th and 21st century, dystopias shadow this belief like a doppelgänger. Pandemics, ecological catastrophes reaching to the total destruction of the planetary biosphere, authoritarian states using dictatorial surveillance and torture, self-optimization of societies including artificial reproduction, genetic engineering, and misguided artificial intelligence: literature and film have provided a multiplicity of dystopian world building.
The Brill Human-Animal Studies book series, in conjunction with the Animals & Society Institute, seeks new proposals from across the various disciplines that comprise Human-Animal Studies. From the humanities to the social sciences to the natural sciences, the series seeks to publish groundbreaking work that advances our understanding of the human-animal relationship.
Menschen – Tiere – Kultur. Praktiken in der Interspezies-Begegnung.
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:
David Brooks, Animal Dreams (Sydney University Press "Animal Publics" Series, 2021): https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/products/138749
The Animals and Society Institute, is a human-animal relationship think tank that emphasizes both the academic study of the human-animal relationship and advocacy for nonhuman animals, is launching a policy papers series to analyze and guide governmental decisions relating to animals.
Apologies for cross-posting, but I'm excited to announce my newest book on human and nonhuman animal communication.
