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Summer Institute Call For Applications Announced!
The Animals & Society Institute and the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for the third annual Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute program for advanced graduate students and early career scholars...
Call for Applications Human-Animal Studies International Development Project
The Animals and Society Institute is excited to announce the call for proposals for the sixth annual Human-Animal Studies International Development Project (HASIDP). The purpose of this competitive program is to provide one non-American university per year the...
Upcoming Webinars on Animal Abuse and Children
ASI's Lisa Lunghofer will be giving three webinars, beginning April 20, on animal abuse and children, in conjunction with Humane Society Academy. Background. All forms of violence exposure—especially in combination and over time—can be detrimental to children. Notably...
Sloth Is Out!
We are very pleased to announce that the current issue of Sloth, our online journal for undergraduate and early graduate students in Human-Animal Studies, is out! This issue features the following articles: "Editor's Introduction" by Joel MacClellan "Animals as Social...
The Political Economy of Meat
Lundström, M. (2019). The Political Economy of Meat. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 1-10. This paper discusses variegated scholarly approaches to what is here typified as a political economy of meat. Identified as a multifaceted, transdisciplinary...
The “Furry” Phenomenon: Characterizing Sexual Orientation, Sexual Motivation, and Erotic Target Identity Inversions in Male Furries
Hsu, K. J., & Bailey, J. M. (2019). The “Furry” Phenomenon: Characterizing Sexual Orientation, Sexual Motivation, and Erotic Target Identity Inversions in Male Furries. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1-21. Furries are individuals who are especially interested in...
Stock morality: Whalers, activists, and the power of the state in the Makah whaling conflict
BELDO, L. (2019). Stock morality: Whalers, activists, and the power of the state in the Makah whaling conflict. American Ethnologist. The Makah Tribe of Washington State sparked controversy in the late 1990s when tribal leaders sought to revive their people's whaling...
Speakers Announced for 2019 ASI-UIUC Summer Institute in Human-Animal Studies
We are excited to announce the speakers for the upcoming 2019 ASI-UIUC Summer Institute cohosted by the Animals & Society Institute and the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! This interdisciplinary program, inaugurated in...
Call for Applications for European Summer School in Human-Animal Studies
We are inviting applications for the European Summer School “Interspecies Relationality” (ESSIR) that will take place at the University of Kassel from 28 July to 4 August 2019. The deadline for applications will be 31 March 2019. “Relationality” has been a central...
