Animals & Society Institute News
An Interview with the Author: ‘Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks’
We are excited to share the latest release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks, by Sarah Czerny. By asking the question of, “How does milk become cow milk, donkey milk, or human milk?” Czerny takes readers through an ethnographic...
Read more about HAS news, upcoming Colloquium Series, Living With Horses Conference call, and more
Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute's Human-Animal Studies Report. Again this month, the Human-Animal Studies (HAS) field is active and busy, this time with an extraordinary wealth of podcasts and recorded seminars, publications, and conferences and courses. ASI has been very active too. In the ASI News...
HARA Week 2022 | World Kindness Day
It is no coincidence that the launch of the annual Human-Animal Relationship Awareness Week falls on World Kindness Day, a day when people are encouraged to show more kindness to both those around us — human and nonhuman — as well as to the planet. But how can we turn the ethos behind this celebratory day into...
Announcing the 25th Anniversary of the Publication of JAAWS
As indicated in the statement of the journal’s aims and scopes, "The Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (JAAWS) publishes articles on methods of experimentation, husbandry, and care that demonstrably enhance the welfare of nonhuman animals in various settings.” To this end, “JAAWS publishes papers that present...
Bear Poaching Elimination (BEA) Act, MINKS Are Superspreaders (MINKS) Act, Pigs in Gestation Stalls (PIGS) Act
This quarter, I wanted to outline a few animal-related bills that have been recently introduced. They are all concerned with the exploitation and farming of animals, both wild and domesticated. The response to each of these bills will likely be reflective of the way that domesticated farmed animals are perceived,...
An Interview with the Author: The Relational Horse: How Frameworks of Communication, Care, Politics, and Power Reveal and Conceal Equine Selves
We are excited to share the latest release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, The Relational Horse: How Frameworks of Communication, Care, Politics and Power Reveal and Conceal Equine Selves. In this anthology edited by Gala Argent and Jeannette Vaught, human-horse relationships take the...
Book Release: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies, edited by Linda Tallberg, Managing Editor of the ASI-managed journal, Society & Animals, and Lindsay Hamilton, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Just as climate change and environmental sustainability have become growing concerns in public...
Defining Human-Animal Studies: An ASI Video Project
As university classes are preparing for the new semester, we want to take the opportunity to share our Defining Human-Animal Studies Video Project with students, scholars, and faculty. Because Human-Animal Studies scholars come from such diverse fields, they often have a difficult time reading the work of scholars...
Your August 2022 Human-Animal Studies Report is Here
Welcome to the Animals & Society Institute's Human-Animal Studies Report. This month, the HAS field is active and busy with an extraordinary wealth of funding and job opportunities, and conferences and courses. We are also pleased to announce the publication of a new volume within the Brill Human-Animal Studies...
National Book Lovers Day: ASI’s Recommended Reading List
Today is National Book Lovers Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a good read! We've put together a reading list that we are sure you’ll enjoy, and will have you diving head first into the world of Human-Animal Studies. ASI is happy to see fellows from our ASI Summer Institutes contributing to the...