The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is pleased to announce our 2012 Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies Awards of the Year. Awards will be bestowed on March 3, 2012 during the conference at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY (March 2-4). We thank the many nominees for sub[...]
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January 28th, 2012 - 7:39 pm § in Academics, Awards, Books, Campus Activism, Centers/Working-Groups, Conference, Films, Music
2012 ICAS Award Winners
Journal for Critical Animal Studies mentioned in The New York Times
In a recent New York Times article exploring the rise of the many manifestations of “animal studies” across campuses and universities nationwide, the Institute for Critical Animal Studies’ Journal for Critical Animal Studies was noted as being part of this important, growing movement i[...]
Call for Presentations: 11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies
March 2 – 4, 2012 Canisius College Buffalo, New York, USA Host Sponsors: Animal Allies Club of Canisius College THEME: From Greece to Wall St.: Global Economic Revolutions and Critical Animal Studies As worldwide economies collapse and socio-political revolutions arise in response to education tui[...]
ICAS 2011 Award Winners
The following are the 2011 Scholars of the Year and Award Winners of the Year, that will be presented at the 10th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies Conference, “Thinking About Animals” at Brock University March 31 and April 1, 2011.[...]
Book Talk April 2 – Call to Compassion
Book Talk – Call to Compassion with Anthony J. Nocella II 3 to 5 Saturday, April 2, 2011 Brooklyn’s Restaurant 206 Richmond St Thorold, ON “Covering doctrine and the lived experience of the world’s religious practitioners, Call to Compassion is a collection of stirring and passio[...]
March 8th, 2011 - 11:34 am § in Academics, Books, Campus Events, Centers/Working-Groups, Conference, Media Releases
10th Annual N.A. Conference for CAS at Brock U.
THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS CONFERENCE March 31 and April 1, 2010 10th Annual N. American Conference for Critical Animal Studies The Department of Sociology at Brock University announces a conference on “Thinking About Animals” to be held March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Brock University, St. Catharines[...]
February 17th, 2011 - 6:15 pm § in Academics
2011 ICAS Awards: Call for Nominations
Call for Nominations for Annual 2011 Institute for Critical Animal Studies Awards. Deadline: March 15, 2011. 1. Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/Thesis of the Year – Awarded to an undergraduate student who has written an outstanding paper/thesis that promotes, or who has establi[...]
Starting a Student Group
The importance of starting a student group at your college cannot be emphasized enough. Starting a student group is more than a symbolic gesture, it is a real step towards building an animal rights community and accomplishing goals on campus.[...]
January 16th, 2011 - 11:41 am § in Centers/Working-Groups
Gene Baur to speak at Penn State
Farm Sanctuary President and co-founder Gene Baur will be speaking at Penn State University on Thursday, February 3, 2011. Presentation: “Farm Sanctuary: Changing How Society Views Animals and Food” a presentation by Gene Baur[...]
January 9th, 2011 - 11:04 am § in Academics, Book Series, Campus Activism, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Media Releases
2010 ICAS Review
The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) is the only animal advocacy organization in the world dedicated to higher education and is also fully-volunteer. There are more than two hundred ICAS volunteers who are around the world from professors to undergraduate students. After anyone realizes [...]
ICAS Panel at Sex Gender Species Conference
While we don’t know about the commitments of the conference as a whole, check out this panel with three ICAS presenters at Wesleyan’s Sex, Gender, Species conference. The panel is scheduled for 4pm on Saturday, February 26th. “Precarious Life, Playful Life: The Ethics of Non-Viol[...]
First Critical Animal Studies Video
Institute for Critical Animal Studies, with the help of Anthony Nocella, produced the first Critical Animal Studies video, that is perfect for animal rights, animal law, animal ethics, critical animal studies, environmental sociology, and moral and ethics courses.[...]
