The U.S. animal advocacy movement is truly growing. One can judge its complexity, maturity, and seriousness by the many important forums that are coming up in the near future. To add a note, each of the forums address a different issue of concern with a diversity of different speakers, rather than the same speakers, which would be the case ten years ago, speak over and over again. New and wonderful voices are being heard. In the multitude of activist based conference is the North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies a blend of activist-academic, but leaning more academic, geared for students and faculty in aiding the development and legitimizing of critical animal studies in higher education.Animal Liberation Forum 2010 CSU-Long Beach, Long Beach CA April 15th – 18th
Animal Ethics Conference Utah Valley University, Provo UT March 29th – April 2nd
North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies SUNY Cortland, Syracuse NY, April 9th, 10th, and 11th
Let Live Conference Portland State University, Portland OR June 25th – 27th
Animal Rights National Conference 2010 Hilton Hotel, Alexandria, VA July 15th – 19th
