"Non-Human Narratives," Bournemouth University, April 27, 2011.

10.00-11.00 Panel 1: Negotiating the Posthuman Landscape

"Consuming the Climate: Re-thinking Meat and Dairy Consumption in the Politics of Climate Change" – Julie Doyle, University of Brighton
"The Machine Starts: Computers as Collaborators in Writing" – Joe Flintham, Bournemouth University

11.15-12.15 Panel 2: Extratextual Approaches to Nonhuman Narratives

"Costume as Character Arc" – Craig Batty, Bournemouth University
"Knit One, Bite One: Feminine Handicrafts and Vampire Fan Art" – Brigid Cherry, Saint Mary’s University College, London

12.15-1.15 Lunch

Exhibitions and workshops by members of Bournemouth University’s Narrative Research Group(NRG)

1.15-2.15 Plenary Address

"Stories, Minds, and Media: Nonhuman Experiences in Graphic Narratives" – David Herman, Ohio State University

2.15-3.15 Panel 3: Animals in the Movies

"Will the Real Bonzo Please Stand Up: Making and Unmaking Animal Stars in Hollywood" – Claire Molloy, University of Brighton
"Animal Saintliness: Creaturely Life in the Films of Robert Bresson" – Anat Pick, University of East London

3.30-4.30 Panel 4: Inhuman Narratives

"Complexity and Ambiguity: An Examination of the Monster and the Monstrous within Contemporary ‘Neo-nasty’ Horror Films" – Shaun Kimber, Bournemouth University
"A Critical Stylistic Approach to True Crime Serial Killer Narratives" – Christiana Gregoriou, University of Leeds

Cfp: "Animals and Prison." Special Issue of JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES.

The connection between nonhuman animals and incarceration discourses has never been more intimately associated. It seems one cannot discuss animal liberation without conversing about prison, whether that be in the form of imprisoned nonhuman animals or human prisoners incarcerated for their role in liberating nonhuman animals. As activists continue to be sentenced under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, prison becomes more realty than metaphor in human-animal studies. At the recent Let Live Animal Rights Conference in Portland, Oregon, former political prisoner Andy Stepanian served as the opening speaker. The synopsis of his talk asks, “what if you closed your eyes and woke up a prisoner? What if you were estranged from your family and labeled a convict? What if you lived your entire life in a cage? What if you were convicted and imprisoned for trying to set beings free from their cages?” It’s unclear whether he is speaking about nonhuman animals or his own incarceration, which is exactly the point. We are at a critical moment in history with mass incarceration and mass exploitation of nonhuman animals. This issue seeks to illuminate connections between animals and prison and to generate new ways of thinking through and tackling nonhuman and human oppression.

Possible Areas of Inquiry:

· Policing bodies
· Prison industrial complex and mass animal agriculture production
· History of prison reform and rise of the animal rights movement
· Nonhuman animal prisoners/ human prisoners
· Invisibility and incarcerated hidden populations
· Nonhuman animals in human prisons, such as dog training programs
· Linked oppressions
· Connection of race, animals and prison culture
· Prison abolition/animal abolition movements
· Discourse of prison in animal liberation material
· Capitalism and the animal/military//agricultural industrial complexes
· Caging, control, domination and power

Deadline: April 15, 2011

For further information, visit the Institute for Critical Animal Studies at: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/?page_id89.

Cfp: "Thinking About Animals," 10th Annual Conference, Institute of Critical Animal Studies, Department of Sociology, Brock University, March 31-April 1, 2011.

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

We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute of Critical Animal Studies as the 10th annual ICAS conference. As with past conferences, we welcome participation from both activists and academics. The conference will be completely vegan.

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

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.

Cfp: "Humans and Other Animals: Challenging the Boundaries of Humanity," University of Manchester, June 11-12, 2010.

Hosted by Institute for Science, Ethics & Innovation, Manchester and Institute of Philosophy, University of London. Theme This conference will seek to examine and challenge the boundaries so often drawn in philosophy, as elsewhere, between humans and other animals. It will draw on philosophical, legal and scientific perspectives in order to question the legitimacy and utility of such distinctions and thereby to explore the moral and philosophical meanings of humanity and being human. Background A century and half ago, Darwin’s theory of evolution challenged the notion of absolute species boundaries, showing that humans were related to animals rather than created unique amongst living creatures and putting us on a continuum with other animals and indeed all life on earth. We now accept that that there are many ways in which human and animal are both genetically and behaviourally similar. While there are ways in which we are different, according to Darwinian theory these are not differences in kind, but in degree. Nevertheless, the notion that we are somehow ‘special’, separated from other animals because of our species, purely in virtue of being human, has persisted. Several commentators writing on animal rights and interests have suggested that to deny animals equal moral consideration on the basis of their inherent capacities rather than as a function of species membership is morally unsound. Despite this, the notion of humanness as something qualitatively distinct in moral terms, the existence of the human “Factor X”, continues to retain philosophical credibility in many discussions. We talk of “human nature” as an essential quality of morally significant beings – that is, ourselves; “human rights” as something to which we, as morally significant beings, are entitled; “humanity” as a morally significant quantity. This focus on humanness as an indicator of moral status draws an implicit line: entities which are human are different, morally speaking, to entities which are not. Of chimeras and chimpanzees: re-questioning the (moral) meaning of ‘human’ Today, contemporary research across a range of scientific disciplines serves to blur the boundaries between human and non-human animals even further than Darwin’s discoveries did. Xenotransplantation, animals with human transgenes or engrafted with human tissues and cytoplasmic hybrid embryos all involve a mixture of human and animal biological components, leading to questions about how (and more importantly why) we should attempt to classify such creatures – as human or animal, or something else? Research in cognitive ethology reveals that animals may possess mental and psychological capacities such as self-awareness and complex reasoning ability, previously ascribed only to humans and often used to justify the moral line drawn between ourselves and other animals. Finally, studies of primate behaviour demonstrate that morality itself may have an evolutionary basis, challenging the view that moral agency and moral reasoning are the sole purview of humans. All of these serve to erode whatever sharp distinctions we might still think to draw between humans and other animal species. Genetically, biologically, as moral subjects and even as moral agents, humans are a species of animal. What implications might this have for philosophical considerations of human nature, for the use of ‘human’ as a qualifier or distinguishing feature in moral, legal and social contexts, and for how we view ourselves, other creatures that exist now and creatures that might one day exist? Further information may be here: http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/research/conferences/humansandotheranimals/conferenceoutline/.

Cfp: "Abolition, Liberation, and the Intersections with Social Justice Movements," 8th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies, SUNY, Cortland, April 10, 2010.

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 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.

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.

"Animal(s) Matter(s): the Future of Critical Animal Studies," Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, April 23, 2010.

Sponsored by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, Society for Applied Philosophy, Mind Association. Speakers: Alistair Currie (PETA) Gauging, Changing and Mobilising Public Opinion: Challenges for AR Advocates. Prof Celia Deane-Drummond (Chester & CAFOD) Taking leave of the animal: transhumanity as transanimality. Jasmijn de Boo (Animals Count) Animal protection on hold in conservative UK Prof Robert Garner (Leicester) In Defence of Sentiency: A Critique of One Version of Animal Rights Dr Simon James (Durham) Animal Minds and the Demand for Evidence Dr Dan Lyons (Uncaged Campaigns) Advancing animal protection: Strategic action in an adverse structural context Dr Karen Morgan (Cardiff) Ethical veganism and animal rights: learning from feminist research and activism Dr Anat Pike (UEL) Creaturely Ethics: Beyond the Discourse of Rights Dr Richard Twine (Lancaster) Putting the ‘critical’ in Critical Animal Studies. What does it mean? Dr Richard White (Sheffield Hallam) Building Alliances between academic and activist communities. Cost (including lunch & refreshments): £40 (waged); £30 (students & unwaged), payable to University of Liverpool. Further information from Stephen R. L. Clark, Dept of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, 7 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WY or srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK.

Schine, Cathleen. "Grrr, Sniff, Arf." NEW YORK TIMES September 13, 2009.

Horowitz, Alexandra. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. New York: Scribner, 2009. The literature about dogs is not quite the same as the literature about, say, Norwegian rats. Dogs get the literary respect: there are brilliant memoirs about dogs like J. R. Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip and Elizabeth von Arnim’s All the Dogs of My Life; there’s James Thurber and Virginia Woolf and Jack London; there’s Lassie and Clifford and, of course, Marley. White rats, on the other hand, get most of the scientific attention. Alexandra Horowitz’s Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know attempts to rectify that situation, exploring what science tells us about dogs without relegating our pets, emotionally, to lab rats. As a psychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive science, as well as an ardent dogophile, Horowitz aims “to take an informed imaginative leap inside of a dog — to see what it is like to be a dog; what the world is like from a dog’s point of view.” Her work draws on that of an early-20th-­century German biologist, Jakob von Uexküll, who proposed that “anyone who wants to understand the life of an animal must begin by considering what he called their umvelt . . . : their subjective or ‘self-world.’ ” Hard as we may try, a dog’s-eye view is not immediately accessible to us, however, for we reside within our own umwelt, our own self-world bubble, which clouds our vision. Consider one of Horowitz’s examples: a rose. . . . Read the whole review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/books/review/Schine-t.html?_r=1.

Pub: BETWEEN THE SPECIES 8 (2008).

Articles:

• Cooley, D. R. Genetically Engineering Human-Animal Chimeras and Lives Worth Living pdf
• Humphreys, R. Animal Thoughts on Factory Farms: Michael Leahy, Language and Awareness of Death pdf
• Jaynes, M. The Ethical Disconnect of the Circus: Humanity’s acceptance of Performing Elephants pdf
• Nobis, N. Reasonable Humans and Animals: An Argument for Vegetarianism pdf
• Rose, D. Peter Singer’s Hegelianism: The Social Context of Equality pdf
• Stieg, C. The Intentionality of Plover Cognitive States pdf
• Weber, E. The Social Contract, the Conservative Attitude, and Antibiotics Development pdf

Book Reviews:

• Donnellan, L. Review of Brian Luke's Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals pdf
• Shaffner, J. Review of Gary Francione’s Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation pdf

Fiction:

• Donovan, J. The Pig Roast pdf

Visit the journal homepage here: http://cla.calpoly.edu/bts/index.html.

Palmer, Clare. Review of Paola Cavalieri, ed. THE DEATH OF THE ANIMAL. NDPR (July 2009).

Cavalieri, Paola, ed. The Death of the Animal: a Dialogue. New York: Columbia UP, 2009. The Death of the Animal is an imaginatively structured and thought-provoking addition to the growing Columbia University Press series in animal studies. It brings together -- and into dialogue -- a number of prominent scholars in the field: the book is introduced by Peter Singer; the anchoring chapter is by Paola Cavalieri; while Cary Wolfe, Matthew Calarco, John Coetzee and Harlan Miller contribute the other essays. The volume continues the trend in animal studies toward the publication of edited collections -- for instance Killing Animals (Illinois UP, 2006) and Philosophy and Animal Life (Columbia UP, 2007) -- in which the authors explicitly respond to one another's contributions, creating an ongoing conversation rather than a series of stand-alone papers. . . . Read the rest here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16546.

Vallier, Robert. Review of Brett Buchanan's ONTO-ETHOLOGIES. NDPR (June 2009).

Buchanan, Brett. Onto-Ethologies: the Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. In the last few years Continental philosophy, in various guises, has rediscovered life. Phenomenologists direct their attention to the lifeworld, and to the phenomena of life and living beings. Some poststructuralists "deconstruct" the difference between organic and inorganic, while others concern themselves with germinal and viroid life and propose various biophilosophies, and still others talk about life as that to which 'biopower' is directed. And most evidently, if we take recent book catalogues as an index, there is a great deal of interest in animality (here I don't refer to animal rights or ethics, which have also given rise to much reflection and debate, but rather the question of animal being) to think about the animal in itself, and about the original difference between animal and human being, thus in some way clarifying the special status of the latter which many, since Aristotle, have determined to be both rational and political. What so much -- it would be unfair to say all -- of this resuscitated interest has in common is a striking disregard for the sciences of life, all too easily dismissing them as predicated on an unreflected and non-philosophical concept of life, which, the standard narrative goes, is inevitably reduced to some form of (neo-)vitalism, (neo-)mechanism, or (neo-)finalism. That may or may not be true as a criticism of the life-sciences, but it certainly should not constitute an excuse to avoid a careful reading of and thoughtful engagement with their theoretical research and experimental findings, which seems so often to be symptomatic of this return to life. It is precisely in this regard that Brett Buchanan's Onto-Ethologies marks a difference. As suggested by the subtitle ("The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze"), Buchanan endeavors to show how the theoretical findings of the properly experimental work of one particular scientist -- the important Swiss biologist, Jakob von Uexküll, sometimes called "the father of ethology" -- made their way into and helped to shape the itineraries of three major Continental philosophers. This alone makes it a valuable contribution to the growing body of literature on life-philosophy generally, and animality in particular. Given that it is written with a great deal of clarity and attention to detail, the book will certainly repay careful study. . . . Read the rest here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16305.

Pub: JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES 7.1 (2009).

Contents: Introduction, Richard J. White, Chief Editor http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20Introduction%20pgs%204-8.pdf "The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education" by Steven Best http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20The%20Rise%20of%20Critical%20Animal%20Studies%20pgs%209-52.pdf "Bend or Break: Unraveling the Construction of Children and Animals as Competitors in Nineteenth-Century English Anti-Cruelty Movements" by Monica Flegel http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20Unraveling%20the%20Construction%20of%20Children%20and%20Animals%20pgs%2053-73.pdf "From War Elephants to Circus Elephants: Humanity’s Abuse of Elephants" by Mike Jaynes http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20From%20War%20Elephants%20pgs%2074-106.pdf "Mythologies and Commodifications of Dominion in The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan" by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20Mythologies%20and%20Commodifications%20pgs%20137-161.pdf "Rituals of Dominionism in Human-Nonhuman Relations: Bullfighting to Hunting, Circuses to Petting" by Roger Yates http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20Rituals%20of%20Dominionism%20pgs%20132-171.pdf "The Quest for a Boundless Ethic: a Reassessment of Albert Schweitzer" by Norm Phelps http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20The%20Quest%20for%20a%20Boundless%20Ethic%20pgs%20172-193.pdf Book Review: Redemption: the Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No-Kill Revolution in America, Winograd, Nathan J. (Almaden Books 2007); Reviewed by Adam J. Kochanowicz http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20Book%20Review%20pp%20194-201.pdf Visit the journal homepage here: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/current.htm.

Bruns, Gerald L. Review of Two Books on Animals and J. M. Coetzee. NDPR (May 2009).

Cavell, Stanley, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, Ian Hacking, and Cary Wolf. Philosophy and Animal Life. New York: Columbia UP, 2008. Mulhall, Stephen. The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009. In 1997 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was invited to give the annual Tanner Lectures at Princeton University. His presentations were entitled, "The Philosophers and the Animals" and "The Poets and the Animals," and were later published as The Lives of Animals (Princeton University Press, 1999), a volume that also included texts by Princeton's original respondents to Coetzee's lectures -- Peter Singer (a philosopher), Marjorie Garber (a literary critic), Wendy Doniger (an historian of religion), and Barbara Smuts (a primatologist); the philosopher Amy Gutmann provided an introduction. Some of the respondents were brought up short by the fact that Coetzee's lectures were not really lectures at all but rather a two-part short story about a lecture and a seminar presented by a fictional Australian novelist, Elizabeth Costello, at Appleton College, an imaginary American university. As Coetzee developed it, the subject of Costello's lecture is our pervasive indifference to the horror of raising and killing animals for food -- a blindness Costello compares to the willful ignorance of Nazi death-camps among ordinary Germans and Poles during World War II. As it happens, Costello's argument is not so much in behalf of animal rights or vegetarianism as it is a polemic against the support that philosophy, with its genius for categories and distinctions, has always given to our inhumane treatment of non-human creatures. Hers is a bitter critique of reason as a distancing factor that insulates us against animal suffering. After complaints against Aristotle, Aquinas, and Descartes, she cites Thomas Nagel's famous question, "What is like to be a bat?," in order to reject his answer that there is no getting inside bat consciousness. Costello thinks Nagel is just withholding himself and his concepts of subjective experience from the bat. She proposes instead something like Keats's idea of "negative capability," namely the poet's ability to inhabit imaginatively the lives of others, whether human or otherwise (a nightingale, for example). For Elizabeth Costello, the mere fact of fiction-writing refutes Nagel's position: "If I can think my way into the existence of a being who has never existed, then I can think my way into the existence of a bat or a chimpanzee or an oyster, any being with whom I share the substrate of life." Sharing here means empathy with the "fullness of life" that every creature enjoys. Whether it is embodied in humans or non-humans, this fullness of life is Elizabeth Costello's definition of the good, and empathy is the requisite of the good life. . . . Read the rest here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16106.

Kristoff, Nicholas D. "Humanity Even for Nonhumans." NEW YORK TIMES April 8, 2009.

One of the historical election landmarks last year had nothing to do with race or the presidency. Rather, it had to do with pigs and chickens — and with overarching ideas about the limits of human dominion over other species. I’m referring to the stunning passage in California, by nearly a 2-to-1 majority, of an animal rights ballot initiative that will ban factory farms from keeping calves, pregnant hogs or egg-laying hens in tiny pens or cages in which they can’t stretch out or turn around. It was an element of a broad push in Europe and America alike to grant increasing legal protections to animals. Spain is moving to grant basic legal rights to apes. In the United States, law schools are offering courses on animal rights, fast-food restaurants including Burger King are working with animal rights groups to ease the plight of hogs and chickens in factory farms and the Humane Society of the United States is preparing to push new legislation to extend the California protections to other states. At one level, this movement on behalf of oppressed farm animals is emotional, driven by sympathy at photos of forlorn pigs or veal calves kept in tiny pens. Yet the movement is also the product of a deep intellectual ferment pioneered by the Princeton scholar Peter Singer. . . . Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/opinion/09kristof.html?_r=3&ref=opinion.

Pub: JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES 6.1 (2008).

Articles:

• "Rhyme, Reason, and Animal Rights:Elizabeth Costello’s Regressive View of Animal Consciousness and its Implications for Animal Liberation" by Norm Phelps, Pgs. 1 - 16 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Phelps1_16.pdf]
• "Three Fragments from a Biopolitical History of Animals: Questions of Body, Soul, and the Body Politic in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle" by Dinesh Wadiwel, Pgs. 17 - 31 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Wadiwel17_31.pdf]
• "‘Most Farmers Prefer Blondes’: the Dynamics of Anthroparchy in Animals’ Becoming Meat" by Erika Cudworth, Pgs. 32 - 45 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Calvo32_45.pdf]

Dialogue:

• "Response to Katherine Perlo’s 'Extrinsic and Intrinsic Arguments: Strategies for Promoting Animal Rights,'” by David Sztybel, Pgs. 46 - 52 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Szybel46_52.pdf]
• "Fundamentalism or Pragmatism?" by Katherine Perlo, Pgs. 53 - 60 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Perlo53_60.pdf]

Book Reviews:

• Nature Ethics: an Ecofeminist Perspective, Kheel, Marti (Rowman Littlefield 2008), reviewed by Lynda Birke, Pgs. 61 - 67 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Birke61_67.pdf]
• Confronting Cruelty: Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement, Munro, Lyle (Brill Academic 2005), reviewed by Nik Taylor, Pgs. 68 - 70 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Taylor68_70.pdf]
• Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Advocacy in the Age of Terror, Hall, Lee (Nectar Bat Press 2006), reviewed by Sarat Colling, Pgs. 71 - 78 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Colling71_78.pdf]
• Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, Best, Steven, and Nocella, Anthony J., II, ed. (AK Press 2006), reviewed by Sarat Colling, Pgs. 79 - 82 [http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_8/Colling79_82.pdf]

Visit the journal homepage here: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/index.htm.

"Transforming Higher Education Into an Ethical Space and Place for Learning," Yale University, April 25, 2009.

7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies. We are especially interested in topics such policy reform and activism in higher education in relation to critical animal studies, animal rights, and/or animal liberation. We are also interested in reaching across the disciplines and movements of environmentalism, education, poverty, feminism, LGBTQA, animal advocacy, globalization, prison abolition, prisoner support, disability rights, indigenous rights/sovereignty, and other peace and social justice issues. Paper 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, theatre, and workshops. You may propose individual or group 'panel' presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal. Preference will be given to papers focusing on the program theme, linking environmental and nonhuman animal advocacy. Visit the conference homepage here: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/international2.htm.

"Minding Animals," University of London, December 5, 2008, and Australia, July 13-18, 2009.

An international conference focusing on issues related to animals and society. European Director of ASI, Kim W. Stallwood, will be among the speakers at a pre-conference lecture on December 5 in London. The program will be held from noon to 6 p.m. at the Menzies Centre of Australian Studies at King’s College. Kim’s lecture, titled “The Animal Rights Challenge,” will discuss the integration of animal rights as a mainstream political issue. Other speakers include such renowned scholars and activists as Robert Garner, Hilda Kean, Richard Ryder and Erica Fudge. At the main conference taking place in Australia July 13-18, 2009, Executive Director Ken Shapiro will be part of an Animals & Society Groups Forum that will include scholars from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Switzerland. Other featured speakers will include J. M. Coetzee, Jill Robinson, Marc Bekoff, and Peter Singer, in addition to many other presentations addressing issues related to academics, science and advocacy. Click here for the complete schedule and registration: http://m1e.net/c?48248080-VtpSnPqzvlKIA%403790621-zmzDEQmoZ69cg.