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Free the Animals—Effective Action Against Vivisection Conference
March 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 2013 – Gainesville, Florida
Details of speakers, registration, accommodations, coming soon!
http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/event-20130301.html
CALL FOR PAPERS for Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Transformative Justice JournalThe Transformative Justice Journal (TJJ), founded in 2012, is an online, open-source, and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting transformative justice. As an academic-activist journal, TJJ was developed out of scholarly and community dialogues around promoting social justice community-based alternatives to both the retributive and utilitarian punishment models used by criminal justice systems, which victimize offenders and re-victimize survivors of offenses. (more…)
CALL FOR PAPERS, ART, VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, AND NARRATIVES
“Eco-Ability the Intersection of Earth, Animal, and Dis-Ability”
This special edition of JCAS will focus on intersections amongst animal liberation issues, environmentalism, ecology, dis-ability studies, and the newly forming theory, field, and movement of eco-ability. This edition, rooted in social justice, will explore these intersections of domination and exploitation to expose and dismantle interconnected oppressions. Contributors are encouraged to read and include information from Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation: The Rise of Eco-Ability (Nocella, Duncan, Bentley, Eds.; forthcoming from Peter Lang, Fall 2012) within their final submissions. Areas for this special edition may include, but are not limited to, the following:
ICAS Satellite Event at Minding Animals 2
This event is FREE and attendance at Minding Animals is not a pre-requisite. However please register for the event by sending an e-mail to mindinganimals@gmail.com because space is limited.
MAI would like to announce that the Institute for Critical Animal Studies will be holding a special Critical Animal Studies roundtable between 2:30pm and 5:30pm on 3 July in Utrecht before the Opening Reception to Minding Animals 2. A lunchtime roundtable will also follow during the main conference. Places are strictly limited to 100 people, so you MUST register your attendance – first come, first served. If you would like to register for this event, please send an email to mindinganimals@gmail.com Venue details and an agenda for this Special Event will be sent to all registrants before the Utrecht conference.
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Call for Papers
Sex, Gender, Species
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: October 1, 2010
The growing field of animal studies has turned critical attention to the real conditions and stakes of human-animal relations. It has also become a new and important focus for debates over identity and difference that have embroiled academic theory over the past quarter century. Recent scholarship on animal otherness as well as discussions of how to traverse boundaries of difference often draws upon a history of feminist theory and practice even as this borrowing remains unacknowledged. The purpose of this conference is to foreground the relations between feminist and animal studies and to examine the real and theoretical problems that are central to both fields of inquiry.
ISSN: 1948-352X
JCAS is looking for submissions that advance the academic study of critical animal issues in contemporary society. While animal studies is increasingly becoming a field of importance in the academy, much work being done under this moniker take a reformist, ethically detached, apolitical, non-activist, and depoliticized approach that fails to mount more serious critique of underlying issues of political economy, systems of domination, and speciesist theories, philosophies, projects, and movements. JCASis an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on total liberation and freedom for all. This Journal was designed to build up the common activist’s knowledge of animal liberation while at the same time appealing to academic specialists to address the important topic of animal liberation, freedom, and advocacy. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints of contributors from the frontlines of activism to academics. We have created the Journal for the purpose of facilitating communication between the many diverse perspectives of the animal advocacy movement. Thus, we especially encourage submissions that seek to create new syntheses between differing disputing parties and to explore paradigms not currently examined. JCAS is open to all scholars and activists. While the research and perspectives will differ, the editing of the pieces will be peer-reviewed for quality and originality. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints and topics. JCAS is meant to be a useful tool for academics and activists and by academic and activists to advance total liberation higher education.
Please read these guidelines below and then send your article, essay, review, research notes, conference summary, etc. to: Dr. Richard White, Chief Editor, Journal for Critical Animal Studies.
