Call for papers: ANIMAL / PRIVACY: Historical and Conceptual Approaches (Online Workshop: November 9, 2021) The Centre for Privacy Studies (University of Copenhagen) and the Kent Animal Humanities Network (University of Kent, UK) are planning an online workshop in November 2021, exploring the intersections between Privacy Studies and Animal Studies. We would like to inviteContinue reading “Call for Papers – Animal/Privacy: Historical and Conceptual Approaches”
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CFP: Postgraduate Animal Studies Symposium
Registration for this event is now live. See: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postgraduate-animal-studies-symposium-pass-tickets-151604419901?aff=ebdsoporgprofile The Postgraduate Animal Studies Symposium (PASS) is a two-day training and conference event that will bring together postgraduate research students working in the field of animal studies, organised by the University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde. The event will be held online, via Zoom, onContinue reading “CFP: Postgraduate Animal Studies Symposium”
CFP: THE GLOBAL LIFE OF OYSTERS: SOCIAL, CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SOAS, University of London – Saturday 17 October 2020
Call for Papers Please circulate to interested parties _______________ THE GLOBAL LIFE OF OYSTERS: SOCIAL, CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SOAS, University of London – Saturday 17 October 2020 As part of the ongoing programme of the Interdisciplinary Animal Studies Initiative (IASI) based at SOAS University of London, in October 2020, we are organising a smallContinue reading “CFP: THE GLOBAL LIFE OF OYSTERS: SOCIAL, CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SOAS, University of London – Saturday 17 October 2020”
CFP Winged Geographies: Birds in Space and Imagination
CFP – Winged Geographies: Birds in Space and Imagination University of Cambridge / 16-17 April 2020 This workshop will address the question of our evolving spatial relationships with bird life. The presence of birds and their song have long shaped human experience and conceptualisation of the skies, the countryside as well as urban and domesticContinue reading “CFP Winged Geographies: Birds in Space and Imagination”
CFP: ANIMAL GAZE CONSTRUCTED – ART & ARCHITECTURE
ANIMAL GAZE CONSTRUCTED – ART & ARCHITECTURE Call for Papers Venue: The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design Symposium Dates: March 6-7th, 2020 Abstracts: Submission: Oct 14th, 2019 – Selection: Dec 14th, 2019 Website: www.animalgaze.org Email:Your Abstract or Full Paper to: animalgaze@londonmet.ac.uk Description: Shrinking horizons, slim pickings, poverty of scope. What new politics of nature are needed here for animals? WhatContinue reading “CFP: ANIMAL GAZE CONSTRUCTED – ART & ARCHITECTURE”
SOAS ELEPHANT CONFERENCE 22nd June 2019
School of Oriental and African Studies, London [Room B 104] Saturday 22 June 2019 – 10.00am to 6.00pm Open to the general public You are invited to attend the second SOAS Elephant Conference, which will be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London on Saturday 22 June 2019. The conference willContinue reading “SOAS ELEPHANT CONFERENCE 22nd June 2019”
Registration and CFP for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Natural History in Liverpool are now open!
Bon Voyage? 250 years exploring the natural world. Updates for the forthcoming summer meeting at the World Museum in Liverpool 14-15 June are now available on the Society for the History of Natural History’s website http://shnh.org.uk/news/registration-open-bon-voyage-250-years-exploring-natural-world/ To download the latest programme, view the abstracts or obtain a booking form, click on the links. For those interested inContinue reading “Registration and CFP for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Natural History in Liverpool are now open!”
Call for Papers: ‘Maritime Animals: Telling stories of animals at sea’
Two-day international conference National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK April 26-27, 2019 Keynote speakers Thom van Dooren William Gervase Clarence-Smith In maritime narratives of humans, ships and the sea, animals are too often absent, or marginalised in passing references, despite the fact that ships once carried, and were populated by, all kinds of animals. Horses, mulesContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Maritime Animals: Telling stories of animals at sea’”
CFP: Workshop on the history of service animals and animal-assisted therapy
Being Well Together: human-animal collaboration, companionship and the promotion of health and wellbeing (19th-21st September 2018). Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). University of Manchester (UK). Being Well Together will critically examine the myriad ways humans have formed partnerships with nonhuman species to improve health across time and place. The lateContinue reading “CFP: Workshop on the history of service animals and animal-assisted therapy”
CFP: Animals and Emotions Workshop
Friday November 17th 2017 AHRC Pets and Family Life Project Royal Holloway, University of London (central London base) This workshop will explore the intersection of two important developments in the field of history – the study of animals and the study of the emotions. Interdisciplinary animal studies are well established, but the animal world hasContinue reading “CFP: Animals and Emotions Workshop”
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