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Human-Animal Studies Newsletter
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Welcome to the current issue of the Animals & Society Institute's Human-Animal Studies e-newsletter.
I am sure we are all, at some level, feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic at this time. As we all hunker down and try to figure out what we can and should be doing in this extraordinarily somber situation, animals are not escaping our collective thoughts.
The pandemic has also spurred discussion of broader, and perhaps more problematic, systemic issues. Sonia Shaw in a piece in
The Nation
,
Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again,
notes that “scientists have fingered bats and pangolins as potential sources of the virus, but the real blame lies elsewhere—with human assaults on the environment.” In an article in
The Hill
,
Coronavirus should be a wake-up call to our treatment of the animal world
, author Cyril Christo’s argues that “the coronavirus did not manifest from nowhere. Our sadistic treatment and manipulation of animals for centuries has come back to haunt us. It is time for humanity to absorb the lessons of the animal world.” Finally, looking forward to solutions Lori Marino’s commentary,
Other Animals Are Not Humans’ Sacrificial Fall Guys
, speaks to the use of animal testing to address the COVID-19 pandemic, with the conclusion that “using other animal species to solve human-made problems amounts to just more of the same hubris and human exceptionalism that spawned the COVID-19 pandemic in the first place.”
All of these issues are worthy of more thought, discussion, research, and action. As we move forward in these uncertain times, my wish is that we will find new ways to support each other, and the animals.
I hope you all stay healthy and well.
Best,
Gala
P.S. Assume that events noted within this HAS E-News are in flux. Although I have left calls and notifications for conferences in the newsletter,
with travel restrictions, quarantines and lock-downs,
many organizations have cancelled or postponed academic conferences. We assume we will see more of this. I suggest you contact the conference organizers to ascertain whether or not gatherings of interest will occur.
Editor’s note: The HAS e-newsletter is organized as follows: Jobs, grants, and calls are ordered chronologically by deadline dates, with the earliest first, and will continue to be posted until the deadlines expire. Books and articles include, where possible, links to access them directly from this email. Because publication reference styles vary by source, they might not always be consistent or pretty, but they will get you there.
Please send your submissions to:
gala.argent@animalsandsociety.org
, and if at all possible include a URL link to your project or announcement. As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions!
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Society & Animals
Volume 28, Issue 1 is out, with the following articles!
Elizabeth Vander Meer. 2020.
Alligator Song:
A Challenge to Spectacle, Product, and Menace
.
Society & Animals,
28(1), 1–20.
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HAS News and Opportunities
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This month’s
LINK-Letter
from the National Link Coalition—the National Resource Center on The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence— includes a variety of items about the link between animal abuse and human violence.
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Funding and Job Opportunities
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The School of Social Work at Colorado State University
seeks a dynamic Postdoctoral Scholar
in the area of health/behavioral health with a demonstrated commitment to instruction and research related to Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) and Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAIs). We will seek to hire a full-time, 12-month Postdoctoral Scholar to begin July 1, 2020. The applicant will have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. in Social Work or allied field before the position start date. To view the complete job announcement and to apply for this position please go to
Deadline is March 30, 2020.
The Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS) is releasing a three-year funding scheme
to support research, which furthers our understanding of the human-animal bond. For funding to be considered by SCAS, projects or research must be specifically related to the human-animal bond. Currently prioritized focuses are: animal assisted interventions, particularly with children; the human-companion animal relationship; and cross disciplinary working, among others. Direct queries to
info@scas.org.uk
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Grant proposals are due
March 31, 2020.
The Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) is collaborating again with the
Special Collections Research Center
(SCRC) at the NC State University Libraries for the 2020 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship. The fellowship is in memory of
Tom Regan
to promote scholarly research in animal rights. It will support the use of the SCRC’s Animal Rights Archive—the largest scholarly archive of animal rights collections in the country. The fellowship provides a $4,000 stipend awarded to a qualified applicant for research completed in residence at the SCRC for a term of no less than four weeks to begin on or after July 1.
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For more information and to submit an application, click
here
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Applications are due by April 30
The
Tiny Beam Fund Spring/Summer 2020 Fellowships
are open for Applications. The fellowships, ranging from $15,000 to $25,000, are meant primarily for academic researchers (including independent scholars) interested in helping to address negative impacts of global industrial food animal production (especially in low- and middle-income countries). There are no restrictions as to applicants’ residence / citizenship / location.
The application process runs through May 11, 2020.
Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida invites
applications for a one-year visiting position in Animal Studies
to start in Fall 2020. Candidates should have an M.S. or Ph.D. in animal studies or a related field of study with an emphasis on animals, and a commitment to the liberal arts. We seek an applicant committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching. Teaching load is seven courses per academic year (3-1-3), including sophomore/junior level courses in animal-focused classes (which might fall in the areas of society, culture, humanities, science, and animal electives) to contribute to our newly developed, interdisciplinary program in Animal Studies. Inquiries should be sent to Lauren Highfill at
HighfiLE@eckerd.edu
.
Applications will be reviewed starting March 15, 2020, but the position will remain open until filled.
Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA is recruiting for
an Assistant Professor, Human-Animal Interactions
in the Animal Behavior program with a Ph.D. or equivalent in Human-Animal Interactions, Animal Behavior, Anthrozoology, or a related field, or D.V.M. with expertise in these areas. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Contact Susan Lewis lewiss@carrollu.edu.
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Following are some of the books out this month that we are excited about!
Harel, Naama. 2020.
Kafka's Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Roscher, Mieke. 2019.
Animals and Courts: Europe, c. 1200–1800
. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
Struthers, Kelly Montford and Taylor, Chloë. 2020.
Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies
. Oxford: Routledge.
Tague, G. 2020. An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood. Lexington Books.
Tong, Wenfei. 2020. The Family Life of Birds. London: Ivy Press.
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New HAS Journal Articles and Chapters
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Following are some of the research articles and book chapters published this month in the field of Human-Animal Studies.
Following are some of the research articles and book chapters published this month in the field of Human-Animal Studies.
Jones R.C. 2020. Speciesism and Human Supremacy in Animal Neuroscience. In: Johnson L., Fenton A., Shriver A., Eds.
Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals. Advances in Neuroethics.
Cham: Springer.
Teresa Lloro & Christian Hunold. 2020. The public pedagogy of neighborhood Facebook communities: negotiating relations with urban coyotes,
Environmental Education Research
, 26:2, 189-205, DOI:
10.1080/13504622.2019.1690637
Melson, G. F. 2019.
Human-animal play: Play with pets
. In P. K. Smith & J. L. Roopnarine (Eds.), Cambridge handbooks in psychology.
The Cambridge handbook of play: Developmental and disciplinary perspectives
(p. 103–122). Cambridge University Press.
Tauber, S.C. 2020. Critical animal studies, critical international relations theory, and anthropocentrism. In: S. C. Roach, Ed.
Handbook of Critical International Relations
. Elgaronline.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112895
Janette Young, Holly Bowen-Salter, Lisel O’Dwyer, Kristen Stevens, Carmel Nottle & Amy Baker (2020) A Qualitative Analysis of Pets as Suicide Protection for Older People,
Anthrozoös
, 33:2, 191-205, DOI:
10.1080/08927936.2020.1719759
Arian D. Wallach, Chelsea Batavia, Marc Bekoff, et al. 2020. Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation.
Conservation Biology
.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13494
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Calls for Papers: Journals
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The
Journal of Vertebrate Biology
is pleased to announce an upcoming Special Issue, “Dogs and conservation: current and emerging considerations,” with Guest Editors Dr. K. Whitehouse-Tedd (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Dr. N. Richards and Dr. M. Parker (both from Working Dogs for Conservation, USA). For information:
katherine.whitehousetedd@ntu.ac.uk
and CC the Editor-in-Chief (Prof. Carl Smith;
carl.smith02@ntu.ac.uk
.
The deadline is March 31, 2020.
Human Animal Interaction (HAI) Section of the American Psychological Association has issued a Call for Papers for a special issue covering “Therapies Incorporating Horses to Benefit People: What are They and How are They Distinct?” Please direct any inquiries (e.g., suitability, format, scope, etc.) about this special issue to the guest editor: Wendy Wood
wendy.wood@colostate.edu
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The deadline for manuscript submittal is November 30, 2020.
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Calls for Papers: Conferences
and Workshops
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Please check with the program organizer about whether or not the conference will be held.
Doing animal health in a more-than-human world, First Conference for the Network of Veterinary Humanities, has issued a
call for abstracts
for this October 8-9, 2020 at the Messerli Research Institute, University of Vienna, Austria. Specific to the approaches of veterinary humanities is that animals and human-animal relationships play a crucial role. At this first conference, we aim to further explore the implications of this perspective: How does veterinary knowledge translate into animal bodies and minds and render certain configurations of knowledge-based practice in society rational? And how is professional work in the field of animal healthcare situated in economic, political, spatial and socio-cultural contexts? The conference will be a multidisciplinary event. Proposals from disciplines such as (but not limited to) Veterinary Science, Sociology, Political Science, Literature, History, Anthropology, Cultural and Media Studies, Philosophy, Geography, Art, Education Science, Gender Studies, Psychology and Law are welcome.
Deadline is April, 2, 2020.
Students and young professionals in science, humanities and the arts working on marine mammal conservation, welfare and rights are invited to submit abstracts for the Student-Advocacy Session at the Superpod 7 conference, July 20-24, 2020, Friday Harbor, Washington, USA. Contact Dr. Lori Marino
lorimarino@kimmela.org
or Mariah Kirby,
mariahkirby@kimmela.org
.
Deadline is May 15, 2020.
A call is out for presentations for a panel on “Pathogenic entanglements
and multispecies encounters: what narratives for what responsibilities?” at the forthcoming Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK & Commonwealth Annual Conference, ASA 2020: RESPONSIBILITY, which will take place at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, 24-27 August 2020. Abstract: The One Health agenda seeks to redress excessive anthropocentrism in disease-management but creates new biopolitical hierarchies of pets and pests. What responsibilities—as causality and accountability—are framed and contested in narratives of pathogenic multispecies entanglements? Contact: Rosie Sims (
rosie.sims@graduateinstitute.ch
) or Emmanuelle Roth (
er477@cam.ac.uk
).
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Save the date: The Faculty of Kinesiology of the University of New Brunswick is hosting a two-day conference on Sport, Animals, Ethics, May 26-28, 2021. Paper proposals will be welcomed from all disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Watch for the Call for Abstracts in October 2020. For more information, contact Gabriela Tymowski-Gionet
tymowski@unb.ca
and Sam Morris
morrissp@miamioh.edu
.
Save the Date: The Minding Animals—
Animals and Climate Emergency Conference
(ACEC) conference and events will be held over 22 to 29 July, 2021, in Sydney, Australia, in a central Sydney city venue. A conference registration website and the call for abstracts will appear mid-year. In the meantime, please see
mindinganimals.com
for further information. For information, please contact Rod Bennison at
acec@mindinganimals.com
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Meetings, Conferences and Presentations
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Below are upcoming meetings and conferences for which the submission deadlines have passed, or for which submissions were not requested. Again, p
lease check with the program organizer about whether or not the conference will be held.
Vegetarian Epiphanies. From Realization to Changing Eating Habits. April 16-17, 2020,
Rennes
, France, and May 28-29, 2020,
Santa Barbara
, California, USA.
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This intermittent section of the HAS e-Newsletter includes selected commentary and information on academic inquiry, legal developments, and proposed and enacted legislative actions related to animal policy, in the space where nonhuman animal interests meet politics and the law.
Books, Chapters and Articles
Abbate, C., 2020. Animal Rights and the Duty to Harm: When to be a Harm Causing Deontologist.
ZEMO
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-020-00059-3
Heath Grant, Cathryn Lavery & Kimberly Spanjol, 2016. Understandings about animal cruelty: Why animal abuse is a critical concern for law enforcement practitioners, and promising antidotes to youth violence.
The Latham Letter
. Volume XXXVII, Number 3.
Heath Grant, Cathryn Lavery & Kimberly Spanjol, 2015. Critical understandings about animal cruelty for law enforcement practitioners.
Journal of Law Enforcement
, 4 (5) 1-12.
HÄYRY, M., 2020. Causation, Responsibility, and Harm: How the Discursive Shift from Law and Ethics to Social Justice Sealed the Plight of Nonhuman Animals.
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
, 29(2), 246-267. doi:10.1017/S096318011900104X
Cathryn Lavery, Heath Grant & Kimberly Spanjol, 2016. Towards a typology of dog fighting: An examination of motive and behavior typologies and recommendations for criminal justice and mental health practitioners.
Behavioral Health
, 4, (2), 1-10.
Offor, I., 2020. Animals and the Impact of Trade Law and Policy: A Global Animal Law Question.
Transnational Environmental Law,
1-24. doi:10.1017/S2047102519000402
Thompson, M., Cochrane, A., & Hopma, J., 2020. Democratising food: The case for a deliberative approach.
Review of International Studies,
1-21. doi:10.1017/S0260210520000017
Wallach, A.D., Batavia, C., Bekoff, M., Alexander, S., Baker, L., Ben‐Ami, D., Boronyak, L., Cardilini, A.P., Carmel, Y., Celermajer, D., Coghlan, S., Dahdal, Y., Gomez, J.J., Kaplan, G., Keynan, O., Khalilieh, A., Kopnina, H., Lynn, W.S., Narayanan, Y., Riley, S., Santiago‐Ávila, F.J., Yanco, E., Zemanova, M.A. and Ramp, D., 2020. Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:
10.1111/cobi.13494
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As you can see, there is a tremendous amount of activity and progress going on today in the field of Human-Animal Studies, and we always invite your input and participation. Your
donation
to the Animals & Society Institute will enable us to continue to expand the field in many more ways and work in conjunction with others around the world who share these goals.
Thank you for supporting our Human-Animal Studies efforts!
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Gala Argent, PhD
Program Director
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