Australasian Animal Studies Association
The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) is an Australian association of animal studies scholars, scientists, creative artists, and animal advocates.[1][2] The association was founded by Siobhan O’Sullivan, a professor from the School of Social Sciences of the University of New South Wales (UNSW).[3][4]
The association started publishing in 2008 the AASA News Bulletin as a quarterly electronic publication. The publication is presently the publication Animail.[5] The online scholarly publication for human-animal studies for the association is the Animal Studies Journal.[6]
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".[7] As part of its efforts to support creative artists in the realm of animal studies, the association maintains an online art gallery.[8] The association also hosts the Val Plumwood Lecture Series.[9] Starting in 2021, the association began awarding the AASA Animal Studies Awards.[3]
Publications
In 2024, the AASA published the discourse 'Fire': An Australian Play Gives Voice to Animals Devastated by Catastrophic Bushfire by Rebecca Scolin.[10] Scolin is an associate professor at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) School for Creative Arts.[11] Fire (2017) is theatrical play by Australian author Scott Alderdice, which describes the story of the January 2013 catastrophic bushfire in the Warrumbungle National Park, Australia.[12] The brushfire had destroyed 80% of the park.[13]
The AASA published the 2018 article PETA, Patriarchy, and Intersectionality by Nicholas Pendergrast, which does an analysis of the campaigns by the international animal advocacy organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in terms of the approach of intersectionality in terms of its implementation in Critical Animal Studies and ecofeminist literature and how it is being applied non to non-human animals. The article presents a criticism of the scope of this approach by PETA to this issue.[14]
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.[15] The chief editor for the journal is Dr. Melissa Boyde of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.[16][17]
Val Plumwood Lecture Series
The AASA hosts the Val Plumwood Lecture Series. Val Plumwood was an Australian environmental philosopher.[18] The 2024 lecture was titled "Social Lives of Animals: Domination, Intersectionality, and Heterotopia".[19]
AASA Animal Studies Awards
The following awards are awarded by the association:[3]
- 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.[20]
- 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.[21][22]
Conferences
In 2015, the Australian Centre and the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE) convened the AASA conference titled Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism at the University of Melbourne. Speakers included:[23]
- Author and animal rights activist Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Harriet Ritvo, the Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The 2025 conference, title Centring Animals Across the Disciplines, was hosted at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) School for Creative Arts in Toowoomba, Australia. An art exhibition coincided with the event which was curated by Fernando do Campo and Rebecca Scollen.[24]
References
- ↑ "Australasian Animal Studies Association | UIA Yearbook Profile | Union of International Associations". uia.org. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ↑ Osborne, Emily (2024-05-28). "Links — Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network". Faculty of Arts. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "New awards scheme advances the emerging sub-discipline of animal studies | Inside UNSW". www.inside.unsw.edu.au.
- ↑ Animal Studies Journal, Volume 12, Number 1 2023
- ↑ "'Animail': e-Bulletin | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. 2010-03-30. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ↑ "Journal – Australasian Animal Studies Association". Archived from the original on 2025-01-02. Retrieved 2025-01-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Conference 2023 – Animal Cultures | 27–28 November, University of Sydney | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. 2023-07-26. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ↑ "Gallery | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. 2023-05-27. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ↑ McKenna, Ant (2024-10-09). "2024 Val Plumwood lecture | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ↑ 'Fire': An Australian Play Gives Voice to Animals Devastated by Catastrophic Bushfire
- ↑ "A/Pr Rebecca Scollen : University of Southern Queensland Repository". research.usq.edu.au. Archived from the original on 2025-08-15. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ↑ 'Fire': An A ': An Australian Play Gives Voice to Animals Devastated by Catastrophic Bushfire by Rebecca Scollen, University of Southern Queensland
- ↑ Barlass, Tim (2013-01-19). "Reserve burnt to a cinder". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ↑ PETA, Patriarchy and Intersectionality Nicholas Pendergrast Animal Studies Journal | Australasian Animal Studies Association | Published : 2018
- ↑ "Journal – Australasian Animal Studies Association". 23 July 2012. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ↑ "UOW Open Access Journals". www.uowoajournals.org. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ↑ "Discovery". scholars.uow.edu.au. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ↑ iseeenviroethics (2008-02-29). "Val Plumwood (11 August 1939 – 29 February 2008)". ISEE - International Society for Environmental Ethics. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ↑ "2024 Val Plumwood Lecture". events.humanitix.com. 2024-10-28. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ↑ Evans, Brodie; Johnson, Hope (2021-12-01). "Contesting and reinforcing the future of 'meat' through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat". Geoforum. Pergamon. pp. 81–91. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.10.001. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
- ↑ Turn, The Animal (2021-12-05). "AASA Award for Popular Communication of Animal Studies". The Animal Turn. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ↑ Evans, Brodie; Johnson, Hope (2021-12-01), "Contesting and reinforcing the future of 'meat' through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat", Geoforum, Pergamon, 127: 81–91, doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.10.001, retrieved 2025-09-18
- ↑ Porich, Jimmy (2017-07-06). "Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism conference — Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network". Faculty of Arts. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
- ↑ "Centring Animals - UniSQ School of Creative Arts Events". UniSQ School of Creative Arts. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
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