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For a copy of the latest Australian Study Group Bulletin, please click on the following link:

Animals & Society (Australia) Study Group September 2008 Quarter News Bulletin

Animals & Society (Australia) Study Group December 2008 Quarter News Bulletin

Animals & Society (Australia) Study Group March 2009 Quarter News Bulletin

Animals & Society (Australia) Study Group June 2009 Quarter News Bulletin   

Animals & Society (Australia) Study Group September 2009 Quarter News Bulletin

Animals & Society (Australia) Study Group December 2009 Quarter News Bulletin

Australian Animal Studies Group March 2010 Quarter News Bulletin No.7

The Inaugural Minding Animals Conference Organising Committee was delighted to present a forum to discuss Animal Studies: the discipline. The Forum was held on the first day of the Minding Animals Conference.  Participants were asked to think about the topics raised and come back to a special lunch-time session later in the conference to discuss their thoughts regarding the road forward for the discipline.

The guest speakers in the forum included:

Carol Gigliotti Professor Carol Gigliotti
International Advisory Board, Institute for Critical Animal Studies, USA and Canada 
"Critical Animal Studies"
Dr Erica Fudge
British Animal Studies Network, UK 
"Thinking Across the Boundaries"
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Dr Natalie Lloyd
Coordinator, Animals and Society (Australia) Study Group (with Carol Freeman, University of Tasmania), Australia
"Developing a Human-Animal Studies Research Network"

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Co-director, New Zealand Centre for Human Animal Studies, New Zealand 
"The New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies"
Kenneth Shapiro Dr Kenneth Shapiro
Executive Director, Animals and Society Institute, USA
"The Development and Future of Human-Animal Studies"
Claudine Burton-Jeangros

Professor Claudine Burton-Jeangros
Coordinator, Représentations des animaux dans les médias suisses, Switzerland
"Current Issues about Animals - social sciences perspectives and the social debate in Switzerland"

 

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