Dear Colleague,
Welcome to our first 2015 issue! We hope you'll find these listings useful in your work and studies. We always want to share good information, so if you have items to submit for the February issue, please send them to me at margo@animalsandsociety.org.
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| ASI News and Opportunities |
If you are an ASI scholar member interested in receiving a free set of these two papers for your classroom (the only cost is shipping), please contact me atmargo@animalsandsociety.org.
Please also note that all of the print titles in our policy papers series are on sale this month for only $3 each; click here to see which apply to your studies!
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| HAS News and Opportunities |
The application deadline for the fall 2015 Canisius College Anthrozoology Master's Program is Feb. 1. The application can be found here.
The University of Exeter Anthrozoology Department is seeking a full-time, permanent senior lecturer with extensive expertise in human interactions with non-human animals. This post is available starting May 1. The successful applicant will possess a depth and breadth of specialist knowledge of trans-species interactions, demonstrated by a Ph.D. or equivalent in anthropology or a closely related discipline. Candidates must also demonstrate a strong potential for research leadership with a track record in refereed publications, and involvement in submitting successful grant applications. The person chosen will also be expected to contribute to teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The closing date for applying is Feb. 22; click here for more information.
Erica Fudge has announced that audio recordings of many of the talks at last fall's "Smaller Than a Mouse" conference are now available to listen to on the BASN website.
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Antennae Issue 30, "Virtual Animals," is now available. In John Berger's influential essay from1977 titled, "Why Look at Animals?," he advanced the thesis that in the modern world, human relationships with animals have been predominantly shaped by representation. Berger's argument has been challenged by many scholars, yet something about its grand theory of disappearances and ghostly presences has recently begun to resonate more strongly as animals are conspicuously emerging in video games and alternative reality scenarios, posing even more pressing questions about representation and human-animal interaction at a time when the virtual world seems to be on the brink of overshadowing the material one. In an attempt to map the current state of affairs with "virtual animals," this issue of Antennae gathers together a range of perspectives from some of the most influential scholars and artists working in the field.
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Topics in Human-Animal Interactions: Significance of Research in History & for the Future (ISAZ 2015), July 7-9.
Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism (Australian Animal Studies Group Conference), July 12, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Animal Populations - World Resources and Animal Welfare: UFAW International Animal Welfare Science Symposium, July 14-15, 2015, Zagreb, Croatia.
Animal personality, aggression and physiological responsiveness, Aug. 9-14, Cairns, Australia.
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| Call for Abstracts: Conferences |
Tasting: British Animal Studies Network Meeting, May 15-16, 2015, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Paper submissions must be submitted by Jan. 30.
Topics in Human-Animal Interactions: Significance of Research in History & for the Future (ISAZ 2015), July 7-9, Saratoga Springs, New York. The International Society for Anthrozoology invites submissions of abstracts for both scholarly research and scholarly reviews for oral and/or poster presentations. The conference will focus on scholarship in human-animal relationships in the past, and address implications for the future of anthrozoology. Submissions are due Jan. 30.
Ethics and/or Politics: Approaching the Issues Concerning Nonhuman Animals, April 9-10, University of Birmingham, U.K. This conference will consider how nonhuman ethics ought to proceed and how this relates to practical issues within the area, and the effect it will have on society. The conference will address such issues as how society ought to intervene for nonhumans and whether the introduction of political/legal/ethical questions affects our conclusions on these matters; whether concepts of personhood are adequate in nonhuman ethics when politics/law is introduced; which approach to take toward animal ethics; and whether the introduction of political and legal approaches affect our conclusions on the issues. The aim of the conference is to bring the 'political turn' question into relation with the issues and to apply them to practical concerns that can be put forward for a real-world impact. Proposals of no more than 500 words, in .doc, .docx or .pdf format, should not indicate the author's name; accompanying the abstract should be a short biography noting the author's status, name, institution, contact information and the title of the abstract/proposed paper. Submissions are due Feb. 20 tosavingnonhumansbham2015@gmail.com.
Symbiotic anthrozoology: cultivating (or advocating?) ethics of coexistence, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, April 13-16, 2015, University of Exeter, UK. Anthrozoological interactions receive considerable anthropological attention, but anthropologists are often reluctant to advocate for their other-than-human informants. This panel urges scholars working on trans-species encounters to consider the ethical dimensions and wider impacts of their work. To propose a paper, click here.
Ecological Networks and Transfers in Colonial Contexts, c. 1850 - 1920, June 26-27, University of Kassel, Germany. European emigrants and settlers initiated long-distance transfers of plants and animals, which changed the natural environments of the colonies and motherlands substantially. By applying methodological approaches from new disciplines such as animal studies and animal geography, this conference aims to challenge the anthropocentric perspective that has dominated the historiography of "ecological imperialism" so far. The conference wants to provide a forum to discuss how to revise traditional interpretations of the origins of colonial dynamics. Send a proposal of no more than 500 words along with a short CV to kirchberger@uni-kassel.de by Jan. 31.
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| Call for Papers and Abstracts: Books and Journals |
Roberto Dutesco's photographs of Sable Island horses are liminally situated between rural and urban, domestic and wild, aesthetic object and independent subject. Dutesco's horses are both eminently real beings with their own experiences and representations that speak to Western, hegemonic discourses of the nonhuman. What is "horse"? How have they been represented within literature and the arts? What is their relationship to humans, and how has their presence altered human society over time? The editors invite essays that explore the role and representation of horses in human culture from 1700 to the present in a wide array of geographies and contexts, and from multiple disciplinary perspectives within the humanities. Papers that explore horses in non-Anglocentric equestrian cultures are especially welcome. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Kristen Guest or Monica Mattfeld by Feb. 28.
Chapter proposals are currently being considered for English Romantic Ecologies, a book about ecological themes in English Romantic writing. Proposals are 600 words plus a bibliography, due by April 30. Chapters will be 6,000 words, due by Dec. 30. Email email lfitzsimmons@csudh.edu with initial statements of interest.
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Wishing you all the best for the new year,
Margo DeMello
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