It’s not too late for advanced graduate students and early career scholars pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies to apply to the Animals & Society Institute and the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Fourth Annual Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute program. The Institute is designed to support participants’ individual research in Human-Animal Studies as well as to promote interdisciplinary exchange. Application Deadline: February 28, 2020.

This interdisciplinary program, inaugurated in 2017, is focused on graduate students and those in the first few years post-PhD. or other terminal degrees like MFA, MSW, DVM, or JD, and enables 20-30 participants to work on their dissertations or publications for one intensive week. The Institute is designed to support participants’ individual research in Human-Animal Studies as well as to promote interdisciplinary exchange. The program offers a shared space of critical inquiry that brings the participants’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential HAS scholars and provides the participants with the guidance and feedback to develop their work. At the heart of the program are daily morning seminars devoted to discussion of participants’ work, followed by afternoon plenary lectures by distinguished speakers. These are complemented by special workshops and field trips to on- and off-campus locations which highlight different aspects of the human-animal relationship. The 2020 Institute will take place from July 12-19, 2020, inclusive.
 
Learn more about the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute program and application process  here.