Animal Encounters: Human-Animal-Contacts in the Arts, Literature, Culture and the Sciences
25th to 27th November 2016
International Conference at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department for German and Comparative Studies
Category: Conferences
Sixth International Conference on Food Studies
Call for Papers: The 2016 meeting will feature a special focus on this provocative subject. We welcome open debate, discourse and research from participants that center on this special topic, as well as the yearly conference themes described below, and any other issues relevant to food studies
‘With their skins on them, and … their souls in them’: Towards a Vegan Theory
An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference
31st May 2016 – University of Oxford
Building on the increasing prominence of the ‘animal turn’ in the humanities in the last decade, and the recent publication of Laura Wright’s The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in an Age of Terror (University of Georgia Press, 2015), this conference will seek to ask what kind of place veganism and/or ‘the vegan’ should occupy in our theorizations of human-animal relations, animal studies, and the humanities in general.
Beyond the human: Feminism and the animal turn
Presented by the Feminist Research Network (FRN) and the Material Ecologies Research Network (MECO)
Report on proceedings available at: http://www.uowblogs.com/frn/2016/02/22/report-beyond-the-human-feminism-and-the-animal-turn-symposium/
Exploring Human – Animal Interactions
A multidisciplinary approach from behavioral and social sciences
Animals were domesticated thousands of years ago and are now present in almost every human society around the world. Nevertheless, only recently scientists have begun to analyse both positive and negative aspects of human-animal relationships.
SEEN AND UNSEEN The Role of Visibility in Humans’ Use of Nonhuman Animals
Exploring how visibility and invisibility (removal from sight) make us more or less comfortable about different types of animal use by considering how exposure weakens support for animal use and/or leads to increased tolerance of that use.
Animaladies
July 11 & 12, 2016, University of Sydney, Australia Registrations are now open – for more information and to register click here.
Making Sense of the Animal – Human Bond and Relationship(s)
This conference invites scholars from many disciplines and across cultures to reflect upon the conundrum of meaning: we are same but different. What do animals mean in our personal lives as well as our societal and cultural lives? And how have those relationships been collaborative or at cross-purposes?
Animal Biographies – Recovering Animal Selfhood through Interdisciplinary Narration?
9-11 March 2016, University of Kassel, Germany
Animal Biographies 2016 attempts to evaluate both the challenges and potentials of biographical narration for the representation of material animals in their own rights, while posing the question if and in what way animal biographies might be suited to recover the life peculiar to animals.
Aotearoa/New Zealand Human-Animal Studies Conference
Hosted by NZCHAS at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, on 5 & 6 November 2015
This conference is an opportunity to showcase the research in HAS and CAS that is being conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand, in particular, and more widely in Australasia.