News Bulletin - Australian Animal Studies Group

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It is expected that speakers will cover a wide range of issues from diverse perspectives. The
following key themes have been identified on which papers are invited but submissions from other
areas are also most welcome:
- Legal Education and Rural Communities
- Rural Services and Rural Opportunity
- Borders, Boundaries and Rural Law
- Managing Rural Conflict
- Legal Services and Legal Practice in Rural Communities
- Law and Rural Social License
- Indigenous Inclusion
Deadline for submissions 20 February 2012
For more information on all these areas and other details about the conference see:
http://www.une.edu.au/law/rrljconference/index.php
Animal Death Symposium
13 June 2012. University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus
CALL FOR PAPERS
This symposium brings together cross-disciplinary voices on the topic of Animal Death. We seek
papers which explore how animal and human death are conceptualised, diverge, differ and also
connect in profound ways. Papers could explore issues of sacrifice, ‗necessary‘ expendability,
utility, species extinction, human survival, climate change and conservation. We are particularly
interested in human and animal relationships around the nature of death. These include (but not
limited to) issues of grief (for the dead companion animal), euthanasia, rituals of slaughter,
vivisection, cultures of denial, the issue of who is (and who isn‘t) attributed a ‗soul‘, post-death
belief systems.
Keynote: Professor Deborah Bird Rose, Centre for Social Inclusion, Macquarie University
Deadline for submissions: 16 January 2012
Please send 200 word abstracts to Dr Jay Johnston: jay.johnston@sydney.edu.au Individual
papers 20 minutes. Panels of up to 3 speakers are welcome.
Convenors: Dr Jay Johnston and Dr Fiona-Probyn-Rapsey fiona.probyn-rapsey@sydney.edu.au /
jay.johnston@sydney.edu.au
This is a Minding Animals International Preconference Event, timed to run just before the Minding
Animals Conference in Utrecht, July 2012. For more information see:
http://www.mindinganimals.com
Wild
25-26 May 2012. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
CALL FOR PAPERS
The first meeting of the revived British Animal Studies Network (BASN) - Glasgow will take place
from 2.30pm on Friday 25 May to 5.00pm on Saturday 26 May 2012 at the University of
Strathclyde in central Glasgow. Details will be issued in the new year.
As with all previous BASN meetings, this one takes as its focus a key term in animal studies that it
is hoped will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines. This meeting‘s title is ‗Wild‘.
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