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AASA Australasian Animal Studies Association

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On this episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Brian Kateman. Brian teaches environmental science, sustainability, and environmental communication at Kean University in New Jersey and Fordham University in New York. However, he is probably best known for his activism and journalism. He is the founder of the Reducetarian Foundation, and the author of several books about food and food systems. In this episode, we discuss his 2022 book Meat Me Halfway, and his 2021 documentary of the same name.

The episode is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association) and the Animal Publics book series from Sydney University Press. ... See MoreSee Less

Episode 215: Reducetarianism with Brian Kateman

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AASA Australasian Animal Studies Association

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Call for Papers: 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, as part of the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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.

In addition to the wide array of topics presented by scholars at AASA’s Conferences, we are interested exploring Animal Cultures from perspectives, including but not limited to:
• New interpretations of non-human animal culture and knowledge
• Indigenous knowledges of animal cultures
• Cross cultural and multicultural approaches to animal life
• Global animal networks
• Non-human animals and environmental protection
• Political organisations
• Transmissions of knowledge through space, time, sound, bodies, and dance
• Symbiotic animal cultures
• Cross-species cultures
• The culture of Animal Studies

Submit paper and panel proposals via: https://usygovir.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9uhQJeS4uWbTc3A
• Submissions open: Friday 26 May 2023
• Submissions close: Friday 30 June 2023
• Notification of results: Friday 28 July 2023

All proposals for papers and panels are welcome where they are aligned with the Vision and Mission of the Association (https://animalstudies.org.au/about).

Questions to: Dr Peter John Chen at peter.chen@sydney.edu.au

Download a poster of the CFP at: http://animalstudies.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AASA23_CFP.pdf
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The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) was formed in 2005 by a group working in the emergent field of Animal Studies

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