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
NEW BOOK: Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde
Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation By: Kim Socha Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2012, XIV, 258 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-3423-5 € 54 / US$ 81 ____________ ABOUT THE BOOK This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political th[...]
Gene Baur at SUNY Cortland Tonight
Gene Baur Author and Co-Founder of Farm Sanctuary Book Signing and Talk April 13, 2011 7 to 8pm Moffett Hall 2125 SUNY Cortland, New York[...]
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[...]
Dr. Melanie Joy is Coming to Central New York
Dr. Melanie Joy presents: “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism” Monday – March 28, 2011 This slide show is based on the critically acclaimed book of the same name. In Why We Love Dogs…social psychologist Melanie Joy explains carnism, the invisibl[...]
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[...]
Book Talk on Hollywood’s Exploited
!! Book Talk and Release !! Conversations in Conflict Studies Series presents~ Friday, February 25, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. …400 Eggers Hall, the PARCC Conference Room Syracuse University, New York Book Talk and Release of “Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Cris[...]
February 14th, 2011 - 8:57 am § in Anti-Dissection/Vivisection, Book Series, Books, Media Releases, Veganism
Love and Liberation – Book Coming Soon
Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story Sarat Colling and Anthony J. Nocella II Lara Drew Illustrations Published by Arissa Media Group (coming soon) www.arissa.org ABOUT LOVE AND LIBERATION Gabriella and Andre are an everyday couple working up the corporate ladder in Houston, Texas. W[...]
January 1st, 2011 - 12:39 am § in Books
The Institute for Critical Animal Studies Top Ten Reads of 2010
2010 was an exceptional year for groundbreaking books on animal advocacy and progressive social change. As the new year begins, we would like to share our Top 10 Picks of 2010, which are listed below in no particular order. We highly recommend purchasing some of these books for back to school readin[...]
ICAS Has Another Book Series
Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) in 2010 created the, Critical Animal Studies Reflections on Animal Liberation Book Series with Arissa Media Group, which targets the public and activist community. This serious is interested in activist strategies, tactics, and social movement politics an[...]
December 10th, 2010 - 8:31 am § in Books, Media Releases
New Book Out – Hollywood’s Exploited
Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis Edited by Benjamin Frymer, Tony Kashani, Anthony J. Nocella, II, and Richard Van Heertum; with a Foreword by Lawrence Grossberg This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a[...]
September 14th, 2010 - 6:46 pm § in Academics, Books, Campus Activism, Campus Events, Media Releases, Veganism
Author Carol J. Adams to speak at Western Kentucky University
Author of the ground breaking book, “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Carol J. Adams will discuss the relationship between meat eating and patriarchal values at Western Kentucky University. A free vegan food tasting will begin at 6:30p.m. This event is[...]
