The 17th International Conference on Animal Protection and Welfare will be held September 21 - 22, 2010 at the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic. The conference is summoned to discuss pressing problems of protection and welfare of farm animals, companion animals, experimental animals, and wild animals, including animals in zoological gardens and handicapped animals. For more information visit http://www.vfu.cz/welfare/.
The History of Marine Animal Populations program will be hosting a conference titled "Oceans Past III, Stories from the sea: History of marine animal populations and their exploitation," to be held November 18-20, 2010 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Details at http://hmapcoml.org/oceanspast/
The 4th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, "Living on the Edge," will be held December 16-19, 2010 in Fremantle, Western Australia. Through a multi-disciplinary framework of religion, nature and culture, the conference explores the relationships between people and nature, social and ecological systems, local and global economies, art and ecology, science and religion, and cultural diversity and biodiversity. Deadline for abstracts: July 30, 2010. Please mail to . More information: http://www.religionandnature.com
Wesleyan University will be hosting a conference called "Sex, Gender and Species" on February 25 and 26, 2011. 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. Conference organizers Lori Gruen and Kari Weil are seeking 1-2 page abstracts by October 1, 2010. Abstracts can be sent to or
Human Animal 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium - Hotel Westin San Francis, San Francisco, USA, on March 30-April 2, 2011. See: http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/humananimal/
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 the current and historical situation of nonhuman animals and interactions with humans. The Department is organizing this conference with the assistance of the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, the Departments of English, Political Science, History and Visual Arts, the MA Programme in Critical Sociology, and the MA Programme in Social Justice and Equity Studies. As with past conferences, we welcome participation from both activists and academics. The conference will be completely vegan. Please send a short proposal (2-3 paragraphs or enough details to describe your idea) to:
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2011.
The International Conference on Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations, will be held in Tartu, Estonia, on April 4-8 2011. The focus of the conference is explicitly twofold: "semiotic processes" and "animals" are the key concepts that are to guide the conference as well as the individual presentations. Researchers from various backgrounds who have been inspired by zoosemiotics or who are interested in different aspects of semiotic studies of animals are invited to participate in the conference. To submit a proposal, interested scholars should e-mail an abstract (300-600 words) and a bionote (less than 100 words) to: . Abstracts should be sent as separate single one-page files (.doc or .rtf). The deadline for the abstracts is September 15, 2010. More information is available on the conference website: http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/conference/2011_zoosemiotics/index.html
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