2010 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS – NOMINATIONS FOR SCHOLARS – NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS

11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies

March 2 – 4, 2012
Canisius College
Buffalo, New York, USA

THEME:
From Greece to Wall St.: Global Economic Revolutions and Critical Animal Studies

As worldwide economies collapse and socio-political revolutions arise in response to education tuition increases, job losses, tax increases, land rights, and religious division, governments are collapsing only to be hijacked by corporations. In the US, national and transnational banks and financial institutions are being bailed out by the government, while common people are kicked out of their homes and fired from their jobs so corporations can save money. Simultaneously, global revolutionary fervor increases against corporations, banks, and corrupt financial institutions. People are demanding their rights and their nations back. The results of this backlash are police brutality and political repression toward activists worldwide. The theme of this year’s annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies is based on inquiry into how economic markets locally, regionally, nationally and globally affect nonhuman animals. Can these revolutions include a critical animal studies agenda? If not, why not? If they can, how would this agenda manifest both philosophically and strategically? How does the economy affect nonhuman animals? Are there alternative ethical and transformative economic systems that promote animal liberation? How are capitalism and transnational corporations affecting nonhuman animal exploitation? How do industrial complexes promote exploitive economic practices? What tactics and strategies can be used to resist economic exploitation? How do economic crises similarly oppress human and nonhuman animals and the environment? In what ways are the resulting oppressions intersectional? How are schooling, teaching, and education influenced by economic interests which promote exploitation?

We welcome proposals from community members including, but not limited to, nonprofit organizations, political leaders, activists, professors, staff, and students. We are especially interested in topics such as the history of social movements, spirituality and social movements, nonviolence, alliance politics, freedom, democracy, and notions of total inclusion. We are also interested in reaching across the disciplines and movements of environmentalism, education, poverty, feminism, LGBTQA, animal advocacy, globalization, prison abolition, prisoner support, labor rights, disability rights, anti-war activism, youth rights, indigenous rights/sovereignty, and other peace and social justice issues.

Presentation Submissions Contact:
Stephanie Jenkins
scjenkins@gmail.com

Nominations Annual Awards Contact:
Dr. Kimberly Socha

 Nomination for Scholars Contact:
Sarat Colling

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Areas of inquiry include:

The Future of Critical Animal Studies

Revolution
Occupy Wall St.
Corporatization
Global Industrial Complex
Anarchist Studies
Feminism
Activism and Tactics for Social Change
Media
Social Networking
Critical Criminology
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
Speciesism
Animals in Relation to Religion and Spirituality
Abolition as Theory or Strategy
Animals and Property
Challenges to Human Domination
Sexuality and Gender
Culture, Language, and Animals
Racism
Domesticated and Wild Animals
Capitalism
Deconstructing Human and Animal
Social Constructions
Re-Defining Nature
Bio Ethics and Universal Ethics
Post-Colonialism
Geography, Space and Place
Animal Epistemology
Education and Schooling
Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length.

We are receptive to different and innovative formats including, but not limited to, roundtables, panels, community dialogues, theater, and workshops.

You may propose individual or group “panel” presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal.

Please stress in your paper/roundtable/panel/etc. how you will be focusing on the program theme and linking it to economics and critical animal studies.

Proposals or abstracts for panels, roundtables, workshops, or paper presentations should be no more than 500 words. Please send with each facilitator or presenter a 100 maximum word biography (speaking to your activism and scholarship) in third person paragraph form.

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2012.

Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail by January 25, 2012.

Please send proposals/abstracts and biographies electronically using MS Word and as an attachments in Times Roman 12 point font to:

Stephanie Jenkins
Co-Conference Chair
scjenkins@gmail.com

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Call for Nominations for
Annual International Critical Animal Studies Scholars of the Year

Britches Scholar of the Year

Founded in 2010, ICAS recognizes one graduate student from around the world who is working theoretically and practically on advancing animal rights activism and/or alternatives to animal studies and research. If you are interested in being an ICAS Scholar of the Year please send 1) a 500 to 1000 word statement on your accomplishments, academic work, advocacy, and academic and political goals, 2)  three recommendations, and 3) your CV. The Scholars position is a one year appointment.

Tyke scholar of the Year
Founded in 2010, ICAS recognizes one graduate student from around the world who is working theoretically and practically on advancing alternatives to violence, domestication, and/or animal entertainment. If you are interested in being an ICAS Fellow of the Year please send 1) a 500 to 1000 word statement on your accomplishments, academic work, advocacy, and academic and political goals, 2)  three recommendations, and 3) your CV. The Fellow position is a one year appointment.

Process and Responsibilities:

• Deadline for Scholar is January 15, 2012.
• Notified by January 25, 2012.

• Scholars that have been awarded will be notified and recognized at the Annual North American Conference on Critical Animal Studies.

• After being notified of being awarded as a Scholar please send us a 220 word biography and picture of yourself, which will be posted with your e-mail to our website.

• Please send reports every month to update us on your work so we can post in our newsletter, website, and blog.
• We strongly encourage all nominees to be present at the conference.

Sarat Colling
Co-Conference Chair
bright_new_morning@yahoo.ca

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Call for Nominations for
Annual International Critical Animal Studies Awards of the Year

• Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year – For outstanding media such as documentaries, films, book, visual art, operas, plays, and music in the field of critical animal studies. The media cannot be older than three years. We stress that critical animal studies includes any topic, issue, or concern (from environmentalism to prisoners’ rights) that promotes the protection, liberation, and freedom of animals in the world and is based not only on theory, but in practice as well. The media can come from any discipline or topic including, but not limited to, international studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, religion, sociology, environmentalism, critical animal studies, social work, biology, history, economics, public administration, criminology, philosophy, anthropology, chemistry, medicine, agriculture, political science, disability studies and information studies. To nominate media for this award, simply send the media to the ICAS.
• Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/Thesis of the Year – Awarded to an undergraduate student who has written an outstanding paper/thesis that promotes, or who has established and organized a project that fosters animal protection, liberation, and freedom. We are strongly interested in projects that bridge the gap between academia and the surrounding community. To nominate an undergraduate student for this award, the nominator must write a one page letter and include the paper or write a one page detailed description of the project.
• Critical Animal Studies Graduate Paper/Project/Dissertation of the Year – Awarded to any graduate student working on a masters or doctorate degree who has written an outstanding paper/thesis that promotes, or who has established and organized a project that fosters animal protection, liberation, and freedom. We are strongly interested in projects that bridge the gap between academia and the surrounding community. To nominate a graduate student for this award, the nominator must write a one page letter and include the paper or write a one page detailed description of the project.
• Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year – Awarded to a faculty member conducting research or working at a college, university or institute who has written an outstanding paper that promotes or who has established and organized a project that fosters, animal protection, liberation, and freedom. We are strongly interested in projects that bridge the gap between academia and the surrounding community.  To nominate a professor for this award, the nominator must write a one page letter and include the paper or write a one page detailed description of the project.

Submitting Nominations:

All nomination letters must be sent via e-mail as a Word Doc. attachment no more than one page with a: (1) description of the project and person being nominated (2) how it relates to critical animal studies, (3) all the details of when it was published, who published it, and ISSN or ISBN number, and (3) all articles must be sent PDF or Word Doc. via e-mail as an attachment with the nomination letter.

All media for nominations for Media of the Year, must be sent to the address and a nomination letter must be sent via e-mail.

Deadline is January 15, 2012.

Notified by January 25, 2012.

We strongly encourage all nominees to be present at the conference. Send nominations to:

Dr. Kimberly Socha
kimberlyannsocha@gmail.com
Co-Conference Chair

Normandale Community College
English Department
9700 France Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota, 55431, USA

The event will be held on Friday, November 25th from 12-4 (approximately) at 1 King Street, St. Catharines. There will be signs provided, you can make your own as well. This is to be the first of many F.F.N demos. Henry Furs is both a storefront and cold storage business. Let’s make sure that they know that this industry is unacceptable here or anywhere.

Please come out and show your support!

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When: Monday Nov 21st and Thursday Nov 24th
Where: MCA BLOCK
Time: 11am-3pm.

***We will also be selling “Paws for Thought” for $2.00. Write the name of your companion animals on a paw and support Niagara Action for Animals TNR feral cat program. We will be having having an outreach table about responsible companion animal care, as well.

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We will be screening the Cohen Brothers directed, No Country for Old Men. Based upon a novel written by Cormac McCarthy, the film won numerous awards and garnered near universal praise upon its release. The film poses numerous questions about our relationships with humans and other species and we hope to watch it with a critical anti-speciesist lens.

Vegan treats will be provided. Free to the public and everyone is welcome!

The room is accessible. For anyone with any other questions or concerns about the screening, the room, or the accessibility of the room please send an email to dylanjamespowell@gmail.com

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Mercy for Animals is the fastest growing farm animal protection group in the United States, gaining international attention with their undercover investigations and powerful ad campaigns. Founded in 1999, Mercy for Animals has 75,000 members and a growing list celebrity supporters, including Ellen DeGeneres. A nationally recognized advocate for animal protection, Nathan has appeared in hundreds of newspaper, television, and radio interviews, including National Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune.

Nathan will be in Ontario from Friday, October 7th through to Thursday, October 13th. If you would like to arrange for an interview, please contact Joseph Pace (Executive Director of MFA Canada) at 416.898.4882, or Shannon Kornelsen (Director of Communications) at 647.884.7200

The walk will be held on Saturday, October 1st and will take place downtown St. Catharines. All proceeds will go directly to Farm Sanctuary. Check-In: 10:30 AM. Walk: 12 PM. Celebration: 1 PM.

The Walk will be held rain or shine. Dogs are welcome at this event. Please join us for a celebration, including music, delicious food, and raffle prizes, after the Walk! The total walk distance is 2.5 miles.

Featuring live music from: 
Young Wife
Colleen Unrau
Josh Rikkierink
Nic Waterman

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Ray Greek, MD is a world-renowned critic of animal research. Dr. Greek is board certified in anesthesiology and has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. During the course of his medical career, he performed experiments on animals and conducted clinical research. He is president of the not-for-profit Americans For Medical Advancement. In addition to being published in peer-reviewed scientific literature, Dr Ray Greek is the author, along with his wife, Jean Swingle Greek, DVM of three popular science books on the topic of attempting to extrapolate the results of animal experiments to humans: Sacred Cows & Golden Geese (Continuum 2000), Specious Science (Continuum 2002) and What Will We Do If We Don’t Experiment On Animals? (Trafford 2004.)

His most recent books include Animal Models in Light of Evolution, written for scientists or people with a strong background in science and FAQs About the Use of Animals in Science: A handbook for the scientifically perplexed, written for the nonscientist.

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Please spread the word about this great event! All are welcome!

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This event will be ending off OPIRG’S “Dis-Orientation” Week and we urge everyone to get involved with the event and help introduce news students to the social justice community in Niagara.

Workshop/Tabling/Music Inquiries can be sent to theveganpoliceradio@gmail.com as well as any questions/concerns.