News Bulletin - Australian Animal Studies Group

Minding Animals in Science
Group home page: http://groups.google.com.au/group/minding-animals-in-science
Group email address: minding-animals-in-science@googlegroups.com
Animals, Politics and the Law
Group home page: http://groups.google.com.au/group/animals-politics-and-the-law
Group email address: animals-politics-and-the-law@googlegroups.com
Minding Animals and Philosophy
Group home page: http://groups.google.com.au/group/minding-animals-and-philosophy
Group email address: minding-animals-and-philosophy@googlegroups.com
Animals and Religion
Group home page: http://groups.google.com.au/group/animals-and-religion
Group email address: animals-and-religion@googlegroups.com
Equine Study Circle
Group home page: http://groups.google.com.au/group/minding-animals-equine-study-circle
Group email address: minding-animals-equine-study-circle@googlegroups.com
Animals, Language and Place
Group home page: http://groups.google.com.au/group/animals-language-and-place
Group email address: animals-language-and-place@googlegroups.com
An exciting development has been an offer by the International Society for Environmental
Ethics to assist with the publication of papers from the Study Circles. Further announcements will
be made shortly on this initiative.
For more information see: www.mindinganimals.com
British Animal Studies Network (BASN)
The British Animal Studies Network Lives Again!
Thanks to the generosity of the University of Strathclyde, BASN is being revived - and it now has
its own website: www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk.
Having run over ten meetings between 2007 and 2009 in central London with the support of the
AHRC and Middlesex University, BASN will be re-launched in central Glasgow in May 2012, with
the financial support of the University of Strathclyde. Under the leadership of Erica Fudge once
again, it is hoped that the new home for BASN will welcome both old and new members to join the
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations about humans and other animals.
The topics for the first three meetings will be:
- Wild
- Farm
- Looking at Animals
The meetings in Glasgow will take a different form from those in London. They will run over two
days – from Friday afternoon until Saturday early evening. Papers will be by invitation and also by
open call, and there will – as before – be plenty of time scheduled for informal conversation and
socialising.
Details of the first BASN-Glasgow meeting and the call for papers are now available (see
Conferences and Symposiums above). It is hoped that these meetings, as with those held in
London, will be attended by a range of people involved in animal studies and related areas. This
might include scholars and postgraduates working within the field; scholars from outside of animal
studies who are beginning to recognise the significance of studying the role, place and perception
of animals; people from non-academic institutions – animal welfare charities, museums, NGOs;
and artists who are representing and thinking about animals in their work.
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