Melissa Boyde, an Hon. Senior Research Fellow at UOW, researches in the fields of animal studies and modernist art. Melissa is chief editor of the Animal Studies Journal and co-editor of the Animal Publics book series, Sydney University Press. Melissa has researched and curated exhibitions of the work of Australian modernist women artists for galleries such as Heide Museum of Modern Art, the Margaret Olley Art Centre, Tweed Regional Gallery and the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery.
Call For Papers
Animal Studies Journal Special Issue vol 11 no 1
‘Flourish’
Coinciding with and complementing the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s 2021 online conference ‘Flourishing Animals’ Animal Studies Journal invites contributions to a special issue on this theme.
AASA’s conference focus emphasises the importance of nonhuman animal resilience, flourishing and vitality despite the current interrelated threats posed by anthropogenic crises and ongoing colonial power structures. Work in the areas outlined in the conference CFP will provide an important conversational counterpoint within animal studies, as the flourishing of animals takes on a vital significance.
As always, Animal Studies Journal encourages scholarly and creative practice research which has a strong sense of the work’s intervention in the field. For this special edition, submissions could include or address creative fiction, nonfiction or poetry and visual art; and engage with first nations and decolonizing philosophies and practices, hybridity, posthumanism, ferality, symbiosis, queer theory or entanglement.
Papers should be submitted by 5 December via our website at https: //ro.uow.edu.au/asj/ and should adhere to ASJ guidelines. For any queries please contact: editorialteam@animalstudiesjournal.com
Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Online Conference
Are you new to animal studies research? Do you grapple with current theoretical debates – such as intersectionality and decolonial approaches? Do you wonder how and where to publish? If you would like to understand the basics of the publication process, from pitching an article idea to responding to peer review and get advice on what’s possible when working with non-traditional outputs – such as visual art and creative writing – join us at the master class: Tools for Animal Studies Research.
This interactive online event, presented by the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA), is aimed at higher degree and early career researchers interested in animal studies. You will have an opportunity to hear from scholars doing innovative work in the field and ask questions.