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Category Archives: CFPs, Conferences, Lectures and Journals

J.M. Coetzee

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Since last spring, I have been hearing that people at Queen’s (in Kingston) were working to bring J.M. Coetzee to campus. I’m not sure if a campus event is still planned, but it was just announced that Coetzee will be speaking at the Kingston Writer’s Fest, which is being held September 22-25, 2011. The topic [...]

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CFP: Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and Humanities

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Dis/Locating LawBiennial Conference of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and Humanities Ottawa, Canada October 20-22, 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS Dislocation is a phenomenon of space, place and time. To dislocate something is to upset, complicate, or displace it. It involves getting things out of place, out of order, and out of time, or to [...]

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Text of Presentations at “Thinking About Animals”

Monday, April 4, 2011

“What Happened When the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) Raided the Toronto Humane Society (THS)?” [PDF] “Critical Animal Studies Beyond Anthropocentrism and Humanism” [PDF] Please keep in mind that both presentations, especially the one on the OSPCA/THS, are very rough early reports on a work in progress. Readers should avoid [...]

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Journal of Animal Ethics

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Andrew Linzey has kindly sent me the following announcement. Launch of ground-breaking Journal of Animal Ethics A ground-breaking new journal covering the issue of animal ethics has been launched by a US and UK academic partnership with the goal of widening international debate about the moral status of animals.  This month, the University of Illinois [...]

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“Thinking About Animals” at Brock University

Saturday, April 2, 2011

The “Thinking About Animals” conference, held at Brock University in Saint Catharines, ended yesterday. It was very well-attended, ranging from teenagers to senior citizens, although the skin-tone was overwhelmingly white. (This issue came up in the last panel I attended when Jason Nord tried to argue that all social justice struggles are animal rights struggles. [...]

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CFP: Thinking About Animals (Brock University)

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS: THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS, 2011, BROCK UNIVERSITY 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 [...]

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Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Some may be interested in the following new book. Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert Lorna Weir & Eric Mykhalovskiy Rutledge, 2010 Global Public Health Vigilance is the first social science book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities perceive and respond to international threats to human health. Between [...]

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CFP: Foucault and Animals

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Call For Abstracts: Foucault and Animals Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Wadiwel (Eds) “The animal in man no longer has any value as the sign of a Beyond; it has become his madness, without a relation to anything but itself; his madness in the state of nature.” “it is a technique of training, of dressage, that [...]

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CFP: Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Call for Participation:  13th Annual ASLCH Conference March 19-20, 2010 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship.  The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, [...]

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CFP: Canadian Initiative In Law, Culture and the Humanities

Saturday, May 23, 2009

VISION AND VOICE 3rd Biennial Conference of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 16-18 October, 2009

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