Iris Ralph is a professor in the English Department, Tamkang University. She specializes in ecocriticism, animal studies, and plant studies. Her journal articles include publications in Kritika Kultura; ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Neohelicon; Tamkang Review; and AJE: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. Her most recent book chapter publication appears in Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond (Routledge, 2021). She is the author of Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sides (Routledge, 2020).
Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture
The 2022 lecture is provided by Dr Richard Twine, Reader in Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University. Talk title - 'Val Plumwood’s contribution to intersectional veganism and why the use of the term ‘intersectionality’ need not be seen as appropriation'
Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Online Conference
The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence IS HERE!
Join us for the book launch and be enchanted by a sharing of stories, dialogue, music and inspiration.