Calling All Activists, Practitioners, and Academics!

Animals and Us: Research, Policy, and Practice seeks to facilitate transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogues among researchers, scholars, activists, artists, practitioners, students, and community members of various ideological persuasions to inform, ignite, and inspire enriched public and scholarly discourses on these issues. We welcome submissions from all theoretical, philosophical, methodological, and disciplinary positions and practice orientations within the broad fields of human-animal studies, (critical) animal studies, and anthrozoology.

We are actively soliciting submissions from all theoretical, philosophical, methodological, and disciplinary positions and practice orientations within the broad fields of human-animal studies, (critical) animal studies, and anthrozoology. Researchers, scholars, writers, practitioners, artists, activists, policy makers, and students from Canada and beyond are welcome as presenters.

We invite paper, panel, workshop, and creative performances that address any topic that deals with the connection between animals and humans within one of the broad sub-themes of (1) Research and Theory; (2) Policy; (3) Practice. We also invite targeted submissions that specifically address the intersection of women and animal abuse for inclusion in the pre-conference institute.

Individuals, groups, or panels are invited to submit an abstract (up to 500 words) outlining the focus of their presentation and the sub-conference theme it addresses via our conference submission page. The names, affiliations, and contact details for all presenters is required. All submissions will be peer reviewed.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! The deadline for submissions is midnight on June 15, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be provided by July 15, 2018.

Attendance is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required.

Animals and Us: Research, Policy, and Practice is supported with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada