Ondine Sherman is the Co-founder of Voiceless, the animal protection institute and author of Vegan Living and the Animal Allies Series. She is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney exploring how significant life experiences with animals can transform an individual’s moral framework and increase pro-animal values.
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
In this masterclass, Professor Danielle Celermajer, author of the critically acclaimed work Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin 2021), will explore creative non-fiction as an approach in making sense of more-than-human worlds. Participants will have an opportunity to read sections of Summertime, and also to workshop their own creative non-fiction writing or experiment with this form.