Delighted to share the CFP for our 'Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production’ conference organised by Poulomi and Deborah Schrijvers. Venue: @HumanitiesInstitute, 17 May 2024: tinyurl.com/animalstudiesu… /1

My paper on wildness/domestication in Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka is now available in open access: doi.org/10.1080/147757…

Pls RT and share - Call for Papers – Exploring Human-Animal & Multispecies Relations: Risk Taking in Research Methods Symposium, 6-7 June 2024, University of Brighton Arts and Humanities Research Council Centre for Arts and Wellbeing

The recording of the Therolinguistics/Fabulous Fiction panel is now available. Enjoy! Thanks again to Matthew Chrulew Matthew Chrulew 🌿and to Jeanne Dubino 🐕for insights from their amazing papers, and to Susan McHugh for chairing this lively session. youtu.be/EdQXwbGY-Nc

Do you ever wonder why we behave the way we do when we see something cute? Explore the global craze of cuteness with Joshua Paul Dale, Ph.D. uncovering the charm of Hello Kitty, adorable animals and the science behind why we find things irresistibly cute. #bolinda #audiobook #listeninglist

Come work with me! I have a postdoc position open. Interested? Let's talk

On the 23rd of April, I'll be in conversation with the celebrated filmmaker #AndreaArnold as part of the series "Animal Scales." All welcome! 📽️

Analyzing James Oliver Curwood’s novel Nomads of the North and its subsequent two film adaptations, Justyna Włodarczyk shows how America’s onscreen representations of the novel’s playful “animal odd couple”... 👇 doi.org/10.4000/ejas.2…

Come join us on Zoom while we chat interspecies harmony

👉In her article on Linda Hogan's The Radiant Lives of Animals, Joanna Ziarkowska shows that it is not only Native characters who face the incongruity of cultural constructions of interspecies harmony, but Native authors themselves. doi.org/10.4000/ejas.2…

What emerges from Kathleen Chapman’s article is an argument about the meaning of civilization for America’s elites at the beginning of the twentieth century and the place of animals within it. Read here: doi.org/10.4000/ejas.2…

Graper’s article examines the apparent paradox between the simultaneous celebration of Brood X cicadas as welcome musicians and as food in the context of the All Creatures Yum! event in Southern Indiana. Full article: doi.org/10.4000/ejas.2…

Did we have some fun this week!

Last meeting before summer break! ⛱️We talked about Sara's WIP article on two contemporary "horse-whisperers" and the shows they create.🐎 🍾Congrats to Justyna who was elected Director of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw! 🎓 #animalstudies #research

In our latest Interview with the Author, we sat down with Justyna Wlodarczyk who published, Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s, in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series in 2018. animalsandsociety.org/news/interview…

New paper out on dogs using speech buttons to communicate with humans

CFP for the interdisciplinary journal Transpositiones: The Ethics of Human-Animal Relationships transpositiones.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/upl…