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November: List of Animal Studies Events

  • Writer: Claudia Hirtenfelder
    Claudia Hirtenfelder
  • Oct 28, 2021
  • 1 min read

November is yet another month filled with animal studies events. Below are a list of some of the events I am currently aware of but chances are there are plenty I have missed and will continue to add as the month progresses. So make sure you check out the Events Calendar every now and then to see what else has been added!


  • Topic VINE Book Club: Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Description Join Encompass founder Aryenish Birdie and members of the VINE Book Club to discuss the essays in Antiracism in Animal Advocacy: Igniting Cultural Transformation, the proceeds of which support Encompass and the preface for which was written by Aryenish. Time Nov 3, 2021 07:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
    3 Nov - Vine Book Club
  • Supporting Animals and People Experiencing Domestic Violence
    3 Nov - Webinar Lucy's Project
  • https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/events/event-items/the-edge-of-sentience/
    4 Nov - Edge of Sentience
  • Topic A Celebration of the Work Of pattrice jones Description This virtual celebration will feature talks by scholars who have been inspired by pattrice jones' expansive and embodied vision of promoting social justice in multi-species community. Speakers will include: Sue Donaldson (co-author of Zoopolis), Katie Gillespie (author of The Cow with Ear Tag #1389), Syl Ko (co-author of Aphro-ism), Lori Gruen (author of Entangled Empathy) with a response by pattrice jones (author of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World). Here is the schedule: 1:00 Introductions 1:10 Sue Donaldson "Agency in Community" 1:45 Katie Gillespie: “On Cows in the Woods" 2:20 Syl Ko "Animals and Animality" 2:55 Lori Gruen "On Queering Animal Liberation" 3:15 pattrice jones responds There will be time for discussion as well. Time Nov 5, 2021 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
    5 Nov - Celebrating pattricej
  • 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.
    8-9 Nov - Workshop
  • DSA Night School - Socialism and Animal Liberation
    10 Nov - Workshop
  • Films as Archives of Working Animals. Documentation and Visibility of Working Animals in the European Rural Film Production Peter Moser with Andreas Wigger, Archives of Rural History, Bern. Working animals (horses, oxen, dogs, cows, breeding bulls, donkeys, mules etc.) played a crucial, but seldom broached role in the process of urbanisation and the modernisation of agriculture in the 19/20th century. For a long time both, the urban transport systems as well as the mechanisation of agriculture, were based on animal power. Therefore, working animals are not, as often perceived, a phenomenon of pre-industrial times, but agents of modernisation. One of the reasons why the relevance of working animals so far has attracted little attention by historians can be found in the official statistics which almost completely ignore them. Since working animals were, as all animals, multifunctional creatures, they were not classified and counted as working beings by the authorities. The (numerical) relevance of working animals has, therefore, to be reconstructed by looking more closely at other sources. A promising supplier of information in this respect are agricultural films which were produced in large numbers since the end of the 19th century – a time when the number of working animals probably was at its highest. Thanks to the activities of the European Rural History Film Association (www.ruralfilms.eu) an increasing number of these films is now accessible via the Online-Portal of the ERHFA. By looking at this emerging “archives of working animals”, the proposed presentation intents to illustrate the relevance and the variety of working animals as well as specific human-animal interactions which occurred when men and animals were working together. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/168806200891
    10 Nov - AHG Seminar
  • ASRI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES Current Series: Dr. Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H., President and CEO, Center for Contemporary Sciences (Sept. 15, 2021) Dr. Krithika Srinivasan, Senior Lecturer, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh (Oct. 20, 2021) Dr. Núria Almiron, Co-Director, Centre for Animal Ethics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra- Barcelona (Nov. 17, 2021) Dr. María Elena García, Associate Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington (Jan. 19, 2022) Dr. James Tully, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Victoria (Feb. 16, 2022) Dr. Jodey Castricano, Professor, Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan (Mar. 16, 2022) Annual Lecture in Animal Rights Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria Click on series poster to download Dr. Núria Almiron “COMPASS. Lobbying and Compassion: Interest groups, Discourse and Nonhuman Animals” Co-Director of the Centre for Animal Ethics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra- Barcelona Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, 12:30 – 1: 50 p.m. (PST) Pre-registration required for this free presentation (or the series) on Zoom:
    17 Nov - ASRI Presentation
  • very day seems to bring more stories of multispecies suffering and planetary unraveling. Responses to the fires that ravaged Australia in the Black Summer of 2019-20 made it clear that the ‘natural world’, and not only humans, can suffer injustices. To our collective detriment, Indigenous understandings of human-environment relations remain systematically excluded. In the face of these realities, how well are the existing rules, norms and institutional processes that structure our responses to injustice faring? What can be learnt from Indigenous worlds and worldviews, and how can they be better recognised and restored? How might our responsibility for/with other lives shift in relational perspective(s)? What opportunities and challenges emerge when we apply culturally specific (human) concepts like ‘justice’ to other forms of life? In the face of violence and calls for reckoning, where do ‘good relations’ already exist, and persist? How do forgiveness, kindness, and love continue to operate in everyday life? What mending practices are being undertaken, and at which scales? ​ This panel explores current and emergent approaches to understanding and reconfiguring multispecies relations. We offer ethnographic, theoretical, multi-modal, and interdisciplinary papers that articulate expansive, capacious, and relational approaches to more-than-human worlds.
    24 Nov - 2 Dec - AAS Panels
  • Do you miss catching up after seminars? If so, we have the event for you! It’s been fantastic to connect with so many people through our online events, but we’ve missed having the opportunity to get to know everyone and have some more informal chats about what everyone is working on. So we thought we’d run another series of Hangouts, where all you have to do is sign up, come along and have a chat about animal history. Pets welcome! All the Hangouts will be held at 20.00 UK time, and will be on the following dates: 15th September 2021 24th November 2021 2nd February 2022 30th March 2022 25th May 2022 To sign up visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/168807173801
    24 Nov - AHG Hangout
  • This conference focuses on resilience and flourishing in animal lives. The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) calls for paper and panel proposals for its online conference in late November and early December 2021.
    30 Nov-2 Dec: AASA Conference

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