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 tuition increases, job losses, tax increases, land rights, and religious division, governments are collapsing only to be hijacked by corporations. In the US, national and transnational banks and financial institutions are being bailed out by the government, while common people are kicked out of their homes and fired from their jobs so corporations can save money. Simultaneously, global revolutionary fervor increases against corporations, banks, and corrupt financial institutions. People are demanding their rights and their nations back. The results of this backlash are police brutality and political repression toward activists worldwide. The theme of this year’s annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies is based on inquiry into how economic markets locally, regionally, nationally and globally affect nonhuman animals. Can these revolutions include a critical animal studies agenda? If not, why not? If they can, how would this agenda manifest both philosophically and strategically? How does the economy affect nonhuman animals? Are there alternative ethical and transformative economic systems that promote animal liberation? How are capitalism and transnational corporations affecting nonhuman animal exploitation? How do industrial complexes promote exploitive economic practices? What tactics and strategies can be used to resist economic exploitation? How do economic crises similarly oppress human and nonhuman animals and the environment? In what ways are the resulting oppressions intersectional? How are schooling, teaching, and education influenced by economic interests which promote exploitation?

We welcome proposals from community members including, but not limited to, nonprofit organizations, political leaders, activists, professors, staff, and students. We are especially interested in topics such as the history of social movements, spirituality and social movements, nonviolence, alliance politics, freedom, democracy, and notions of total inclusion. We are also interested in reaching across the disciplines and movements of environmentalism, education, poverty, feminism, LGBTQA, animal advocacy, globalization, prison abolition, prisoner support, labor rights, disability rights, anti-war activism, youth rights, indigenous rights/sovereignty, and other peace and social justice issues.

Areas of inquiry include:The Future of Critical Animal Studies
Revolution
Occupy Wall Street
Corporatization
Global Industrial Complex
Anarchist Studies
Feminism
Activism and Tactics for Social Change
Media
Social Networking
Critical Criminology
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
Speciesism
Animals in Relation to Religion and Spirituality
Abolition as Theory or Strategy
Animals and Property
Challenges to Human Domination
Sexuality and Gender
Culture, Language, and Animals
Racism
Domesticated and Wild Animals
Capitalism
Deconstructing Human and Animal
Social Constructions
Re-Defining Nature
Bio Ethics and Universal Ethics
Post-Colonialism
Geography, Space and Place
Animal Epistemology
Education and Schooling

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length.

We are receptive to different and innovative formats including, but not limited to, roundtables, panels, community dialogues, theater, and workshops.

You may propose individual or group “panel” presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal.

Please stress in your paper/roundtable/panel/etc. how you will be focusing on the program theme and linking it to economics and critical animal studies.

Proposals or abstracts for panels, roundtables, workshops, or paper presentations should be no more than 500 words. Please send with each facilitator or presenter a 100 maximum word biography (speaking to your activism and scholarship) in third person paragraph form.

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2012.

Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail by January 25, 2012.

Please send proposals/abstracts and biographies electronically using MS Word and as an attachments in Times Roman 12 point font to: 

Stephanie Jenkins
Co-Conference Chair
scjenkins@gmail.com

Logistics Contact:
Morgan Jamie Dunbar
dunbarm@my.canisius.edu

Conference Schedule Contact:
Sarat Colling

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Dear Colleagues,

I am the organizer for a session on Non-Human/Human Species and Inequalities at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) that will be meeting in Las Vegas on Aug 19-21 (in conjunction with the American Sociological Association. SSSP is a smaller group of progressive educators and they have often had sessions on animal rights issues with fairly small attendance. I have three good papers so far but need two more to complete the session. This is a quick turn-around as I need to turn in my session (first deadline) tomorrow night. I could, however, still add papers until March 1st.

Please send papers to Julie at: jrandrzejewski@stcloudstate.edu

It is a great opportunity for junior faculty and graduate students to present at a national conference and to become involved in shaping next years sessions by getting involved with a division.

All the best,

Julie Andrzejewski, Professor
Co-Director, Social Responsibility Masters Program
Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education
St. Cloud State University
720 4th Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301

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Thinking About Animals Conference
March 31st to April 1st, 2011
Brock University, Canada

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Sociology at Brock University is issuing a Call for Papers for a conference on “Thinking About Animals” to be held March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

This two-day conference will explore a variety of issues concerning the current and historical situation of nonhuman animals and interactions with humans.

The Department is organizing this conference with the assistance of the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, the Departments of English, Political Science, History and Visual Arts, the MA Programme in Critical Sociology, and the MA Programme in Social Justice and Equity Studies.

We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute of Critical Animal Studies as 10th Annual Northern American Conference for Critical Animal Studies.

As with past conferences, we welcome participation from both activists and academics. The conference will be completely vegan.

Please send a short proposal (2-3 paragraphs or enough details to describe your idea) to: ac2011@BrockU.CA
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2011
We will consider proposals on any relevant topics but some suggestions include:
Animal exploitation industries (economic, environmental, ethical aspects)
Analyzing Industry Propaganda
Undercover investigations
Anarchy and animals
Animals in War
Current campaigns and issues in animal rights activism
Sanctuaries
Humane education
Horse Slaughter in Canada: Cashing in on US Legislation
Captivity: Animals in zoos and “marine parks”
Vivisection and animals in scientific research
Biotechnology and animals
Historical understandings of animals
Animal rights history
Animal rights and social justice
Wildlife conservation and animal protection
Companion animals
Veganism and Vegetarianism
Meat and gender identities
Animals, labour and the working class
Compassion, empathy, solidarity
Animals and human identities
Wildlife trade
Social construction of animals
What animals think
Images of animals and animal activists
Developing animal rights activism and creating cultures of compassion

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Check out the Call for Presentations/Papers here:
http://www.brocku.ca/social-sciences/undergraduate-programs/sociology/thinking-about-animals

Facebook Event page for this Conference is here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162030053842020



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CALL FOR PAPERS:

2010 THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS
10th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies
BROCK UNIVERSITY, Canada

(Please distribute widely!)

The Department of Sociology at Brock University is issuing a Call for Papers for a conference on “Thinking About Animals” the 10th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies to be held March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.  This two-day conference will explore a variety of issues concerning the current and historical situation of nonhuman animals and interactions with humans.

The Department is organizing this conference with the assistance of the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, the Departments of English, Political Science, History and Visual Arts, the MA Programme in Critical Sociology, and the MA Programme in Social Justice and Equity Studies.

We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute of Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) as the 10th annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies.

As with past conferences, we welcome participation from both activists and academics.  The conference will be completely vegan.

Please send a short proposal (2-3 paragraphs or enough details to describe your idea) to: ac2011@BrockU.CA

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2011

We will consider proposals on any relevant topics but some suggestions include:

Animal exploitation industries (economic, environmental, ethical aspects)

Analyzing Industry Propaganda

Undercover investigations

Anarchy and animals

Animals in War

Current campaigns and issues in animal rights activism

Sanctuaries

Humane education

Horse Slaughter in Canada: Cashing in on US Legislation

Captivity: Animals in zoos and “marine parks”

Vivisection and animals in scientific research

Biotechnology and animals

Historical understandings of animals

Animal rights history

Animal rights and social justice

Wildlife conservation and animal protection

Companion animals

Veganism and vegetarianism

Meat and gender identities

Animals, labour and the working class

Compassion, empathy, solidarity

Animals and human identities

Wildlife trade

Social construction of animals

What animals think

Images of animals and animal activists

Developing animal rights activism and creating cultures of compassion

Racism and animal rights

Colonialism, imperialism, and animal rights

Transphobia and animal rights

Posthumanism and animality

Queer theory and animal issues

Animal agency and resistance

Animal subjectivities

Animal rights and the Global South

Nationalism and animal rights

Food justice and animal rights

International animal rights campaigns

Abolitionism

Ableism and animal rights

Art and animal exploitation

Fat phobia and veganism

Feminism and animal rights

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Call for Presentations at SSSP 2010:

I would like to invite papers/presentations for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) www.sssp1.org for the panel “Animals and the Environment: Inequalities and Social Justice Theory” that I am the session organizer of. The theme of the SSSP Conference this year is “Social Justice Work.” It is a huge conference in the field of Sociology, but has scholars from many others fields of study from around the world. The conference typically has about 1,000 people who also attend in the same city at the same time the American Sociology Association (ASA) http://www.asanet.org/ Conference. The Society for the Study of Social Problems will be held August 13-15 2010 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA. I hope you are interested. The deadline is this Monday Feb 15, 2010. I would need your title, description, and biography. You do of course have to pay for registration, lodging, and travel.

I hope you are interested please let me know asap!!!

anthony.nocella[@]cortland.edu or nocellaj[@]lemoyne.edu

Anthony J. Nocella, II
Sociology and Criminology, SUNY Cortland
Sociology and Criminology, Le Moyne College
www.anthonynocella.org
www.anthonynocella.wordpress.org

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The Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) seeks essays from women of color scholars and activists across a variety of disciplines and social justice initiatives to develop understandings on the issues of race, gender, and animality in critical animal studies.  Since the term “critical animal studies” was introduced by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, there has been a void of people of color contributions to the new and developing field. Particularly absent have been the thoughts, concerns, and activism of women of color.  For critical animal studies to engage a holistic politics for total liberation, women of color must play a role in the field’s development.  The goals of this issue are (1) to vitalize the intellectual participation of women of color in critical animal studies, (2) to examine overlapping concerns that are central to critical animal studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory, and (3) to promote avenues of thought and ideas for action that can move us beyond pernicious forms of “othering” that undergird nonhuman and human animal suffering. 

Topics may include:

• addressing racism, sexism, and gender oppression in critical animal studies
• the role of white privilege in the animal rights movement
• domestication and the decolonization of mind and body
• semiotics of animality in racial discourse
• traditional ecological knowledge of animal relationships
• being an ally to nonhuman animals: animal activism from a woman of color’s perspective
• interlocking oppressions of animality, race, and gender
• racialization of the other
• invasive species and invasive races
• veganism, raw foods, and food justice
• the social construction of overpopulation and female reproductive control
• women of color ecofeminism and an ethic of care
• racism, sexism, and gender oppression in the animal rights movement
• addressing violence against women of color and nonhuman animals
• imperialism, colonialism, and the oppression of native peoples
• the future of critical animal studies for women of color
• the role of women of color in the total liberation movement

Papers Due: April 12, 2010 at 5pm EST

Visit http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/?page_id=389 for submission guidelines (but forward all submissions for this issue to the contact below)

Send Papers to:

Anastasia Yarbrough

Institute for Critical Animal Studies

ayarbrou@ymail.com

www.criticalanimalstudies.org

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9th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies
www.criticalanimalstudies.org
Theme: Abolition, Liberation, and the Intersections within Social Justice Movements Saturday April 10, 2010 SUNY Cortland, New York

Call for Presentations

We welcome proposals from all community members, including but not limited to nonprofit organizations, political leaders, activists, professors, staff, and students. We are especially interested in topics such history of social movements, nonviolence, alliance politics, spirituality and social movements, freedom, democracy, and notions of total inclusion. We are also interested in reaching across the disciplines and movements of environmentalism, education, poverty, feminism, LGBTQA, animal advocacy, globalization, prison abolition, prisoner support, labor rights, disability rights, anti-war activism, youth rights, indigenous rights/sovereignty, and other peace and social justice issues. Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length. We are receptive to different and innovative formats, including, but not limited to roundtables, panels, community dialogues, theater, and workshops. You may propose individual or group ‘panel’ presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal.

***Please stress in your paper/roundtable/panel/etc. how you will be focusing on the program theme and linking it to environmental justice and animal advocacy, rights, liberation, and protection.

Please send proposals OR abstracts for panels, roundtables, workshops, or paper presentations no more than 500 words. Please send with each facilitator or presenter a 100 maximum word biography.

**The Deadline for Submissions is February 15, 2010.

**Accepted presenters will be notified by e-mail by Feb 20, 2010.

Please send proposals/abstracts and biographies electronically to:

Sarat Colling
Co-Conference Director
editor@politicalmediareview.org

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