Dear Colleague,
We're fully into 2015 activities now, and we hope you'll find these news and event listings useful in your work and studies. We always want to share good information, so if you have items to submit for the March issue, please send them to me at margo@animalsandsociety.org.
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| ASI News and Opportunities |
 How often do you get free resources for your courses?? Well, we're offering a free set of two ASI policy papers for your use.
 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 at margo@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 |
Have you visited the Humane Society of the United States'Animal Studies Repository yet? It's a digital collection of resources related to the study of animal welfare and the human-animal bond, and is maintained by the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy. It is a growing (approaching 600 uploaded documents) and well-used resource created especially for HAS and other animal-oriented browsers seeking information hard to find elsewhere.
The Patti Rose Scheimer Bednarik Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established through the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. The $5,400 award will be given annually to students enrolled in a Pennsylvania law school, state residents enrolled in an out-of-state law school, or attorneys who have become members of the Pennsylvania bar within the last three years. The criteria for selection include volunteer service to animal welfare organizations, legal scholarship, and pro bono representation of 501(c)(3) groups. For details, please clickhere.
New course in Ireland! Animals and Human Society, taught bySean L'Estrange, is being offered at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin. This course introduces students to the newly emerging field dedicated to the social-scientific study of human-animal relationships. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of professions, the course examines such topics as human/animal distinctions and definitions; classification systems; histories of human-animal relations; animal domestication processes and their consequences; farming practices, animal slaughter and meat production; working animals; pets and pet-keeping; animals in education, entertainment, and sport; animals in science and medicine; animal protection and animal rights movements; and the future of human-animal relationships.
Applications are invited from well-qualified candidates to study for a Ph.D. in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, on the topic of Meat Consumption and the Idea of Animals as Resources. This studentship will trace the historical emergence of current ideas of animal resources by studying the interactions of humans and "meat animals" in literature from the 19th century to the present. The successful applicant will join a vibrant community of scholars, including co-supervisors Robert McKay and John Miller and the supervisory team of Alasdair Cochrane (Politics) and Umberto Albarella (Zooarchaeology). For more information and application details, click here.
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 The Journal for Critical Animal Studies is seeking book and film reviews. Submissions should offer critical analysis and reflect the Institute for Critical Animal Studies' commitment to total human and nonhuman animal liberation. If you are interested in reviewing a book or film, please see the guidelines here.
Applied Developmental Science is announcing a call for papers in the topic area of human-animal interaction. Currently in its 19th volume, the journal has focused on the applying knowledge of human development in the service of enhancing the lives of youth, families, and communities. Beginning in 2015, ADS is reorganizing the journal into several focal areas, based on the growth and significance of developmental science in these areas over the past decade, including human-animal interaction.
A new special issue of Angelaki, edited by Matthew Chrulew, Jeffrey Bussolini and Brett Mizelle, will be a broad overview of French philosopher Dominique Lestel's writings on animals, animality, and philosophical ethology over the last 15-20 years, most of which hasn't been published in English until now. In conjunction with this issue, two of Lestel's books will be published in their entirety later this year with Columbia University Press. View the issue here.
The Human Animal Interaction Bulletin is an online open-access, peer-reviewed scientific publication of the Section on Human Animal Interaction, Division 17, of the American Psychological Association. All four published editions of HAIB are available free online. For more detailed information or to access HAIB, go to www.apa-hai.org. The editors are in the process of working with APA to develop HAIB into an APA-supported journal.
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HAS Discussion with Margo DeMello, February 26, University of Michigan. Email ahaugen@umich.edu for information.
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.
Making Sense of the Animal - Human Bond and Relationship(s) /The Making Sense of the Animal - Human Bond Project, July 20-22, Mansfield College, Oxford, U.K.
Animal personality, aggression and physiological responsiveness, Aug. 9-14, Cairns, Australia.
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| Call for Abstracts: Conferences |
Working Across Species: Comparative Practices in Modern Medical, Biological and Behavioural Sciences, January 7-8, 2016, King's College London, London. This workshop will explore a crucial aspect of the history of comparison in modern medicine, biology and behavioral science: thinking and working between humans and animals. Organized with the support of Wellcome Trust, it will investigate how different fields, institutions, experts and epistemologies developed, deployed and depended upon comparative reasoning and practices across species. Proposals should include a title, author(s) affiliation, and an abstract no longer than 300 words, submitted electronically as a Word or RTF document tomichael.bresalier@kcl.ac.uk by April 17.
Ethics and/or Politics: Approaching the Issues Concerning Nonhuman Animals, April 9-10, University of Birmingham, U.K. This conference shall consider how nonhuman ethics ought to proceed, and ask how this relates to practical issues within the area and its effect on society. The conference will address (but is not limited to) issues such as how we ought to intervene for nonhumans (peacefully, not at all, violently, and so on) 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 ought we to take towards "animal ethics" and its issues; would the introduction of political and legal approaches affect our conclusions on the issues? If there are effects, what would this mean for issues relating to humans? The aim of the conference is to bring the "political turn" question into relation with the issues, not just the general theory, and to apply them to actual, practical concerns that can be put forward for a real-world impact. The conference is free and open to all, although registration via email confirming intent to attend will be required. Proposals for papers should be no more than 500 words and in. doc,. docx or. pdf format. Proposals should not indicate the author's name, as the selection process will be blind. Accompanying the abstract should be a short biography, detailing status, name, institution, contact information, and the title of the abstract/proposed paper. The closing date for abstract submission is February 20, sent electronically to savingnonhumansbham2015@gmail.com. For information, contact Andrew Woodhall or Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade at savingnonhumansbham2015@gmail.com.
Symbiotic anthrozoology: cultivating (or advocating?) ethics of coexistence, ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth), April 13-16, University of Exeter, UK. Anthrozoological interactions receive considerable anthropological attention; however, 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.
Making Sense of the Animal-Human Bond and Relationship(s) /The Making Sense of the Animal-Human Bond Project, July 22, Mansfield College, Oxford, U.K. Although humans are clearly classified as part of the animal world, we have a long and sometimes questionable history of both differentiating ourselves from animals and at the same time identifying ourselves with specific animals or unique animal qualities. This conference invites scholars from many disciplines and across cultures to reflect upon the conundrum of meaning: we are same but different. The nature of this conference is to share research, reflection and creative engagement, thereby crafting an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary understanding. Our goal is to create contexts within which theoreticians, practitioners, skilled professionals and others can begin to engage with each other toward a deeper and broader understanding of the nature of animals and their place in the world and in our lives. The Steering Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances and pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings, photographic essays, installations, interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that encourage engagement. 300-word proposals should be submitted by April 3; click here for details.
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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.
Ashland Creek Press is now accepting short story submissions for the second volume of Among Animals, a book-length anthology of fiction focused on animals. The first volume has received positive reviews and has been adopted into a number of writing programs. The publishers are looking for stories of how the lives of animals and humans intersect, particularly in regards to conservation and protection. They are not seeking stories about hunting, fishing, or eating animals, unless they are analogous to a good anti-war novel being all about war. Stories should be 2,500-7,500 words in length. Previously published stories are fine, as long as the author has retained the rights to reprint the story in an anthology. Click here for submission details.
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| Support the ASI and Human-Animal Studies |
There's already great momentum for the field of Human-Animal Studies to progress even more in 2015, and we thank you for staying connected with us and expanding the network of HAS scholars. In addition to scholar membership, your donation to the Animals and Society Institute will enable us to continue to expand the field even further, and to work in conjunction with others around the world who share these goals.
Thank you for supporting our Human-Animal Studies efforts!
Margo DeMello
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