Australasian Animal Studies Association
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The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) is an Australian association of animal studies scholars, scientists, creative artists, and animal advocates.{{Cite web |date=2010-03-29 |title=About {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/about |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}} The association was founded by Siobhan O’Sullivan, a professor from the School of Social Sciences of the University of New South Wales (UNSW).{{Cite web|url=https://www.inside.unsw.edu.au/awards/new-awards-scheme-advances-the-emerging-sub-discipline-animal-studies|title=New awards scheme advances the emerging sub-discipline of animal studies | Inside UNSW|website=www.inside.unsw.edu.au}}
The association started publishing in 2008 the AASA News Bulletin as a quarterly electronic publication. The publication is presently the publication Animail.{{Cite web |date=2010-03-30 |title='Animail': e-Bulletin {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/bulletins |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}} The online scholarly publication for human-animal studies for the association is the Animal Studies Journal.{{Cite web |title=Journal – Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=http://new.animalstudies.org.au/animal-studies-journal/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |language=en-US}}
The association also hosts a variety of conferences on animal studies. The 2023 conference was titled Animal Cultures and discussed the "emerging scientific and philosophical considerations of culture in non-human animal communities".{{Cite web |date=2023-07-26 |title=Conference 2023 – Animal Cultures {{!}} 27–28 November, University of Sydney {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/conference2023 |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}} As part of its efforts to support creative artists in the realm of animal studies, the association maintains an online art gallery.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-27 |title=Gallery {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/gallery |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}} The association also hosts the Val Plumwood Lecture Series.{{Cite web |last=McKenna |first=Ant |date=2024-10-09 |title=2024 Val Plumwood lecture {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/archives/11608 |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}} Starting in 2021, the association began awarding the AASA Animal Studies Awards.
''Animal Studies Journal''
The Animal Studies Journal works closely with the AASA. The journal is published twice a year and is a forum for research in topic of human-animal studies. The journal is cross-disciplinary in the content that it publishes. It has a particular, but not exclusive, interest in Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific scholarship.{{Cite web |title=Journal – Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=http://new.animalstudies.org.au/animal-studies-journal/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |language=en-US}} The chief editor for the journal is Dr. Melissa Boyde of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.{{Cite web |title=UOW Open Access Journals |url=https://www.uowoajournals.org/journals/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=www.uowoajournals.org |language=en}}
Val Plumwood Lecture Series
The AASA hosts the Val Plumwood Lecture Series. Val Plumwood was an Australian environmental philosopher.{{Cite web |last=iseeenviroethics |date=2008-02-29 |title=Val Plumwood (11 August 1939 – 29 February 2008) |url=https://iseethics.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/val-plumwood-11-august-1939-%E2%80%93-29-february-2008/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=ISEE - International Society for Environmental Ethics |language=en}} The 2024 lecture was titled "Social Lives of Animals: Domination, Intersectionality, and Heterotopia".{{Cite web |date=2024-10-28 |title=2024 Val Plumwood Lecture |url=https://events.humanitix.com/2024-val-plumwood-lecture |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=events.humanitix.com |language=en}}
AASA Animal Studies Awards
The following awards are awarded by the association:
- The AASA Journal Article Prize: A prize for excellence in the work of early-career researchers. The inaugural prize in 2021 was awarded to Dr. Brodie Evans, a visiting fellow at the Centre of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. His article was Contesting and reinforcing the future of ‘meat’ through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat, which was co-authored with Dr. Hope Johnson. It was published in 2021 in the journal Geoforum.{{Cite web |title=Knowing Animals |url=https://knowinganimals.libsyn.com/2022/01 |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=knowinganimals.libsyn.com}}Evans, Brodie, and Hope Johnson. "Contesting and reinforcing the future of ‘meat’ through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat." Geoforum 127 (2021): 81-91.
- The AASA Popular Communication of Animal Studies Prize: A prize for "increasing public awareness of the field and its value to human-animal relations". The inaugural prize in 2021 was awarded to Claudia Hirtenfelder, who hosts The Animal Turn Podcast. The podcast addresses the new focus on animals in modern times.{{Cite web |last=Turn |first=The Animal |date=2021-12-05 |title=AASA Award for Popular Communication of Animal Studies |url=https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/aasa-award-for-popular-communication-of-animal-studies |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=The Animal Turn |language=en}}
Conferences
The theme of the 2023 conference was 'Animal Cultures'. The keynote speaker for the conference was U.S. author Carol Gigliotti with Why knowledge of animal cultures is critical.{{Cite web |title=Research Portal |url=https://research.usc.edu.au/esploro/outputs/editorial/Introduction-Animal-Cultures/991040877002621 |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=research.usc.edu.au}}AASA-2023-Conference-Program20231114.pdf
Gallery
The gallery features the following artists:{{Cite web |date=2023-05-27 |title=Gallery {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/gallery |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}}
- Evelyn Kolijn: A printmaker and installation artist from Calgary, Canada.{{Cite web |title=Eveline Kolijn: Printmaking in the Anthropocene {{!}} Alberta University of the Arts |url=https://www.auarts.ca/event/eveline-kolijn-printmaking-in-the-anthropocene |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=www.auarts.ca |language=en}}
- Dr. Debbie Symons: A multi-disciplinary artist who uses drawing, video, and installation to communicate central themes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/debbie-symons-sing-bayside-gallery|title=Debbie Symons: Sing at Bayside Gallery|website=Bayside City Council}}
- Sue Kalab: An artist known for her depictions of the fauna, flora, and landscapes of Western Australia.{{Cite web |last=Fiona |date=2024-04-29 |title=Three Swans - Watercolours of the Coastlands by Sue Kalab |url=https://southernforestarts.com.au/2024/04/29/three-swans/ |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=Southern Forest Arts |language=en-US}}
- Linda Brant: A visual artist and clinical psychologist based in Orlando, Florida with a private practice and a part-time teaching position at Ringling College of Art and Design and Saybrook University.{{Cite web |title=Linda Brant {{!}} Remembering Animals |url=http://www.rememberinganimals.art/linda-brant/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |language=en-US}}
- Claude Jones: An Australian artist and ceramicist.{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2017-09-03 |title=Claude Jones - Culture & Animals Foundation |url=https://cultureandanimals.org/grantee/claude-jones/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |language=en-US}}
- Bonita Alice: An artist from South Africa, with a focus with psychological matters and our relationship with other animals.{{Cite web |title=BONITA ALICE {{!}} Biography {{!}} Everard Read London |url=https://www.everardlondon.com/artist/BONITA_ALICE/biography/ |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=www.everardlondon.com}}
- Iris Bergmann: Originally from Iceland, an artist inspired by nature's untamed beauty.{{Cite web |title=Iris Bergmann {{!}} Portfolio {{!}} PhotoVogue |url=https://www.vogue.com/photovogue/photographers/293286 |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2011-05-27 |title=Iris Bergmann {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/gallery-old/IRIS-bergmann |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}}
- Trace Johansson: Trace Johansson is an artist who has created works in animal-human art.{{Cite web|url=https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1249&context=steam|title=Animal-Human Art}}{{Cite web |date=2011-05-22 |title=Trace Johnson {{!}} Australasian Animal Studies Association |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/gallery-old/trace-johnson |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=animalstudies.org.au |language=en-US}}
References
External links
- [https://animalstudies.org.au/ Australasian Animal Studies Association]
- [https://animalstudies.org.au/gallery AASA Art Gallery]
Category:Australian animal rights scholars