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2nd Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies Registration is now open for The 2nd Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies, taking place at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th 16th October 2011. This two-day interdisciplinary conference will critically explore a variety of issues concerning the historic, current, and future situation of nonhuman animals across
globally interconnected societies. Adopting a Critical AniCharles University mal Studies perspective this conference seeks to interrogate not only the „question of the animal‟ but also, with urgency, the deteriorating lived circumstances of many nonhuman animals. We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute for Criti
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Animal Studies (ICAS) as the 2nd Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies. The 2nd annual European ICAS conference is an official pre-event for The Netherlands, 17th July 2012 “Minding Animals 2” which takes place at Utrecht University We welcome participation from activists, academics, sociologists, philosophers, geographers.
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News from H. Pedersen
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Symposium News
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Membership
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Book Review
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Call to Compassion
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Special points of interest: Name the Newsletter Contest Winner Cultural Animals Symposium news We now accept PayPal Publication News Upcoming Conference News
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2 N D A n n u a l E u ro p e a n C o n f. , c o n ’ t . The conference will be completely vegan. There will be more than 60 papers over two days, and the plenary speakers are as follows: Dr. Elisa Aaltola - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Dr. Tom Tyler - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Culture (Oxford Brookes University, UK) For registration and other information please visit the conference web-site: http:// humanimal.cz/CAS/
Dr. Erika Cudworth - Senior Lecturer in Politics and Sociology (The University of East London
Kim Socha, ICAS North American Director, presented a workshop on anarchy and animal liberation with long-time activist Sarahjane Blum at the 2nd Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair on September 17, 2011.
Icas oCEANIA ICAS Oceania is calling for expressions of interest. We are a newly developed arm of ICAS and aim to network critical animal studies scholars in Australia and New Zealand and to organize a biennial conference. We are looking for those interested in keeping up to date with ICAS Oceania events and would be happy to also chat to those who might want to play a role in the development of ICAS Oceania. Please contact either Carolyn Drew (Carol.Drew@canberra.edu .au<mailto:Carol.Drew@ca nberra.edu.au>) or Nik
Taylor (nik.taylor@flinders.edu.au <mailto:nik.taylor@flinders .edu.au>). More information about ICAS can be found here http:// www.criticalanimalstudies. org/, and more info on ICAS OCeania, here http:// www.criticalanimalstudies. org/about/icas-australia/
ICAS will sponsor, along with the Critical Animal Studies program and Brock Animal Rights Club, a year long speaker series (via Skype video) at Brock University. Details forthcoming.
Sarat Colling is the WINNER of our Name The Newsletter Contest. She came up with some wonderful ideas, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x;m pleased to announce that Critical Animal Muse was her suggestion. Thanks, Sarat!
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News from Helena Pedersen My essay "Animals and education research: Enclosures and openings" appears in the volume Undisciplined Animals by P. Segerdahl (ed.), recently published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. I presented the same paper at the European Conference on Educational Research in Berlin 12-16 September. I also have a couple of forthcoming articles in the next few months: "Counting Affects: Mo(ve)ments of Intensity in Critical Avian Education" in Canadian Journal of Environmental Education,
"Release the Moths: Critical Animal Studies and the Posthumanist Impulse" in Culture, Theory and Critique, and an essay on queer theory and critical animal studies in lambda nordica (in Swedish).
"Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture and the Media" that has now been approved by Lund University and will be offered in spring, 2012.
I will hold a couple of CAS lectures at Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development in October/November, and work with the new course
Cultural Animals An afternoon symposium hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, College of Arts, University of Canterbury. This event was held to warmly welcome visiting NZCHAS Associate Dr. Nik Taylor to our research centre. A renowned expert on the link between social violence and animal abuse. Dr Taylor began the symposium with a presentation on this important topic. “Not a good hunting dog,” Sue Coe Keynote Presentation: Addressing Animal Abuse: Reflections and Future Directions
Dr Nik Taylor, Flinders University, South Australia Abstract The last two decades have seen much research which suggests that human directed animal abuse is linked to human directed anti-social behavior and aggression. This lecture offers an overview of the main research in this area, including the presenters own research (with Dr Signal from CQU) into different aspects of the human-animal violence continuum including, links between domestic violence and animal abuse; the role of empathy in human-animal abuse; willingness to report animal and human directed violence and differential responses to animal and child abuse. Following this is a brief look at the „other side‟ of animal abuse, i.e. the arguments that connections to animals, through initiatives such as animal assisted therapy, can help remedy animal cruelty and other problematic human behavior. The lecture concludes with a consideration of where animal abuse research can go from here by questioning whether simply treating animals as tools to end human directed abuse is ultimately self defeating.
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Thank You, Susan Thomas, President, ICAS
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Call to Compassion: Religious Perspectives on Animal Advocacy Anthony J. Nocella II, Lisa Kemmerer, eds. Lantern Press
Covering doctrine and the lived experience of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious practitioners, Call to Compassion is a collection of stirring and passionate essays on the place of animals within the philosophical, cultural, and everyday milieus of spiritual practices both ancient and modern. From Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism, through the Abrahamic traditions, to contemporary Wiccan and Native American spirituality, Call to Compassion charts the complex ways we interact with the world around us.
News from Lisa Kemmerer I published Animals and World Religions (Oxford 2011), edited: Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice (U. of Illinois Press, 2011), Call to Compassion: Reflections on Animal Advocacy and World Religions (with Anthony Nocella, Lantern 2011), Primate People: Personal Stories of Advocacy and Adventure (U. of Utah Press, 2011), and Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x;s Voices (Paradigm Jan. 2012). I am currently completing editing for Links of Life: Earth and
Animal Liberation, and an anthology focusing on global problems facing bears.
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The 11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies will be held at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY in March 2012 (dates forthcoming). Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice addresses interconnections between speciesism, sexism, racism, and homophobia, clarifying why social justice activists in the twenty-first century must challenge intersecting forms of oppression. This anthology presents bold and gripping--sometimes horrifying--personal narratives from fourteen activists who have personally explored links of oppression between humans and animals, including such exploitative enterprises as cockfighting, factory farming, vivisection, and the bushmeat trade. Sister Species asks readers to rethink how they view "others," how they affect animals with their daily choices, and how they might bring change for all who are abused. These essays remind readers that women have always been important to social justice and animal advocacy, and they urge each of us to recognize the links that continue to bind all oppressed individuals. The astonishing honesty of these contributors demonstrates with painful clarity why every woman should be an animal activist and why every animal activist should be a feminist. Contributors are Carol J. Adams, Tara Sophia Bahna-James, Karen Davis, Elizabeth Jane Farians, Hope Ferdowsian, Linda Fisher, Twyla Franรงois, Christine Garcia, A. Breeze Harper, Sangamithra Iyer, Pattrice Jones, Lisa Kemmerer, Allison Lance, Ingrid Newkirk, Lauren Ornelas, and Miyun Park.
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