The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is now accepting submissions for their 2015 conference to be held at Binghamton University.

The conference will be held from April 17-19, 2015. The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2015.

Read the full CFP below.

2015 Institute for Critical Animal Studies North America Conference

The 2015 Institute for Critical Animal Studies North America Conference is inviting papers, presentations, and workshops from scholars, activists, and artists working on ethical and political issues concerning non/human animals alongside the socioeconomic concerns that impact human populations. This year’s venue in Binghamton, NY offers a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections of oppression in a community with a rich history of campaigning for social justice for both non/human and human alike.

Critical Animal Studies as a field has become a powerful canopy for many convergent arenas of thought, politics, scholarship, and activism. In partnership with Binghamton University’s nationally ranked speech and debate program, the conference will seek to explore how the law has both served as an impetus and a hindrance to advancing the cause of social justice. The conference also aims to explore the tactics, strategies, and theories that exist outside legal instruments for change. The goal is to create an effective dialog and collaboration between people with differing viewpoints and opinions and not to create an echo chamber for a single-sided viewpoint on how non/human liberation can be achieved.

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length. We are receptive to different and innovative formats including but not limited to panels, performances, workshops, and public debates. You may propose individual or group presentations, but please specify the structure of your proposal. To submit e-mail an abstract of no more than 500 words and short bio of no more than 150 words to [email protected] by January 10th, 2015. Please be sure to include your name(s), title, organizational affiliation(s), field of study or activism, and A/V needs in your submission.

We welcome presentations, panels, and workshops from a variety of academic and non-academic fields, including but not limited to:

Activism and advocacy

Aesthetic are artistic expressions of liberation theory

Anarchism

Biopolitical thought

Bioscience and biotechnology

Critical legal studies

Critical race theory

Cultural studies

Disability studies

Ecology and environmentalism

Ethics (applied and/or philosophical)

Feminist theory

Film and media studies

Intersectional streams of thought

Literary theory

Marxism

Non/human liberation

Pedagogical approaches to teaching liberation

Political economy

Politics of incarceration

Postcolonial studies

Poststructuralist theory

Queer theory

Theology

For any questions concerning submission relevance, conference details, or in general e-mail us at [email protected].

We are also interested in soliciting people, groups, and organizations who are interested in tabling during the conference. If interested please contact us. More information concerning tabling will be forthcoming.

Please spread and share this information with anyone who may be interested in submitting or attending. Authors who have worked on edited collections are encouraged to submit panel proposals on the books with contributing authors presenting.

TO SUBMIT: e-mail an abstract of no more than 500 words and short bio of no more than 150 words to [email protected].