AASA Australasian Animal Studies Association

18/07/2024

Some of our members might be interested in this online exhibition dedicated to Pavlov's Dogs.
"Explore the stories that shed new light on Pavlov’s experiments and the often-overlooked protagonists of his research — the dogs themselves". The exhibition by Dr Matthew Adams and Jim Wilson, was shown in the UK in May 2024.

Content Warning - this site contains discussions about animal experimentation.

Explore the stories that shed new light on Pavlov's experiments and the often-overlooked protagonists of his research — the dogs themselves

02/07/2024

We are thrilled to announce that the AASA Activity Fund is open for submissions until 31 July. This fund supports the work of members in the field of Animal Studies in Australasia – broadly defined.

Applications are available to individuals and groups of current financial members. Between AU$200 to $3000 is available per grant, which will need to be spent during the following 12-month period. Up to a total amount of $6000 will be awarded this financial year.

More information and the application form can be found here.

AASA Activity Fund

21/06/2024

20/06/2024

Beloved AASA members, Laura Jean McKay, Alexandra McEwan, and Clare Archer-Lean, have edited the latest edition of Animal Studies Journal.

Click the link below for a range of fantastic articles that will surely pique your interest 💡

Animal Studies Journal provides a forum for current research in the field of animal studies. ASJ publishes international cross-disciplinary scholarship and practice-led research. The journal, which is published twice yearly, is fully refereed (double-blind peer reviewed) and open acces...

06/06/2024

Australian friends - are you interested in participating in some Animal Studies research in your neck of the woods (I'm in NZ🤭)? Read the excerpt below for more information!

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22/05/2024

The 2024 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, with Dinesh Wadiwel and Lori Gruen, is available to watch now!

Timestamps:00:00:00-00:01:23 Introduction by Kristen Stilt, Animal Law & Policy Program00:01:24-00:04:33 Introduction by Martin Rowe, Culture & Animals Found...

17/05/2024

AASA 2024 Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture – Erika Cudworth 🎉

We are happy to announce that Erika Cudworth has agreed to be our guest speaker for the 2024 Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture.

Erika's interdisciplinary research spans human-animal studies, gender, the environment and posthumanism. She is a prolific writer within the human-animal studies discipline with publications such as Social Lives with Other Animals (2011), and her new book, Animal Entanglements (2024). She looks at relationships between people and dog companions and their everyday practices. Her current research is concerned with domestic violence and animal abuse, outdoor education for sustainability and home education. Learn more about Erika here: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/health-and-life-sciences/erika-cudworth/erika-cudworth.aspx

More information will be shared once we iron out the details; however, ensure you're an AASA member so you can come along! 💡

Erika Cudworth, Senior Lecturer in Education at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, UK

19/04/2024

CFP: Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research 📃

This is a call for a special issue with editor Barbara de Mori and guest co-editor Maneesha Deckha. Deadline 1 Sept, 2024. Click here for more information:

"Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research" published on by Brill.

15/04/2024

Funding opportunity with Tiny Beam Fund and their 'Burning Questions Initiative'. Concept submissions close on April 24, 2024 💰

Read the description and application instructions here:

08/04/2024

CFP: MANCEPT Workshop - Animals, Equality, and Democracy: Themes in Memory of Siobhan O'Sullivan

Deadline: 31 May 2024

Animal ethicists increasingly recognise political philosophy as offering valuable tools for thinking about interspecies relations, while political philosophers increasingly consider questions about animals as worthy of exploration. This is, in a large part, thanks to the pioneering work of scholars championing the ‘political turn’ in animal ethics, including, sessions on animals and politics presented at the MANCEPT Workshops – a regular feature of this conference since 2010. According to Siobhan O’Sullivan, a co-editor of the 2016 collection The Political Turn in Animal Ethics, the term ‘political turn in animal ethics’ has its origins at the MANCEPT Workshops, which she attended in 2013 and 2014. Siobhan was a significant figure in the ‘animal politics’ community, as well as the broader world of animal studies. We invite abstracts for a panel on ‘Animals, Equality, and Democracy’ open to all scholars in animal politics.

Find out more here:

Animals, Equality, and Democracy: Themes in Memory of Siobhan O’Sullivan Convenors: Angie Pepper (University of Roehampton); Josh Milburn (Loughborough University); Sara Van Goozen (University of York); Matthew Wray Perry (University of British Columbia). Animal ethicists increasingly recogniz...

12/03/2024

AASA’s own, Dinesh Wadiwel, will be speaking soon at the 2024 Culture & Animals Foundation Tom Regan Memorial Lecture with Lori Gruen. Mark it in your calendars! 📅

Join us for the sixth Tom Regan Lecture on April 15! https://animal.law.harvard.edu/event/annual-tom-regan-memorial-lecture/

26/01/2024

Fancy a chance to win a €5000 prize and talk about your research?

1-minute video submissions about your research with a Nature award: "Science in Shorts" are being accepted now until 29 January 2024. It's a short turnaround, so keep that in mind!

Submit your video here:

Tell the world about your research in a 1-minute video. Win €5,000.

13/12/2023

Several of our AASA members have been recipients of the Culture & Animals Foundation grant. This grant is for both scholars and artists - applications are welcomed from all over the world! Don't forget the date! 🌱

11/12/2023

Dr Steve Cooke is an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. His work addresses animal rights, and how we (individually and collectively) should act given that our political communities are not friendly to animals. On this episode, we talk about Steve's new book What Are Animal Rights For?, which was published in 2023 by Bristol University Press.

Dr Steve Cooke is an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. His work addresses animal rights, and how we (individually and collectively) should act given that our political communities are not friendly ...

30/11/2023

Keep an eye on your email as you will have received a link to provide feedback so we can make the next conference more of what you want! The link closes on 6th December, so ensure you do it before then! 🌱

30/11/2023

Thank you to everyone who attended, either virtually or in person, for our 2023 conference. I think it is fair to say we are very lucky to have such warm, intelligent, and compassionate scholars from all over the world. What a successful event!

Special thank you to Peter for his tireless behind-the-scenes work to make this happen 🌱

28/11/2023

Fantastic lunchtime panel on publishing. Thank you to Simon, Agata, Zoei, and Melissa for your time!

27/11/2023

Conference 2023 drinks and dinner

27/11/2023

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Kim Stallwood. After becoming involved in animal rights campaigning in the 1970s, Stallwood began archiving material relating to the movement. Much of this media is now available to researchers as part of the Kim Stallwood Archive at the British Library. In this episode, we discuss his archive and a series of blogposts about animal rights he produced for the British Library.

This episode features the independent activist and academic Kim Stallwood. After becoming involved in animal rights campaigning in the 1970s, Stallwood began archiving material relating to the movement. Much of this media is now available to researchers as part of the Kim Stallwood Archive at the Br...

27/11/2023

Wining and dining with delicious vegan eats. We’ve missed this 🌱

26/11/2023

AASA2023 has commenced with Carol Gigliotti’s fabulous keynote on animal cultures.

https://twitter.com/AASA_Animals

22/11/2023

The call for abstracts is now available for Minding Animals Conference 5. Go to www.mindinganimals.com

21/11/2023

Our 2023 conference is in less than one week! Woo! 🌱

For up-to-date information, keep an eye on your emails where conference information and panel-specific schedules will be sent out. Our conference website also has a wealth of information available: https://animalstudies.org.au/conference2023

Did you miss the deadline to register or unable to attend in person? 💻 You can register for online access via: https://animalstudies.org.au/aasa23-purchase-online-viewer-ticket

We can't wait to see you!

16/11/2023

Starting in 15 minutes! ⏰

13/11/2023

New episode! Dr Angie Pepper in a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton in the UK. She works in moral and political philosophy, and has published papers on, among other topics, animals’ right to privacy, animals’ political agency, and what we owe to animals in light of climate change. In this episode, we discuss the collection The Ethics of Animal Shelters, which Angie co-edited with Valery Giroux and Kristin Voigt, including both the guidelines and recommendations in Part I of the book, and Angie’s chapter ‘Caring in Non-Ideal Conditions: Animal Rescue Organizations and Morally Justified Killing’ in part II of the book. The Ethics of Animal Shelters was published in 2023 by Oxford University Press.

Dr Angie Pepper in a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton in the UK. She works in moral and political philosophy, and has published papers on, among other topics, animals’ right to privacy, animals’ political agency, and what we owe to animals in light of climate change. In thi...