✉️ Newsletter – Primer cuatrimestre de 2025

¡Feliz inicio de año!
En esta primera edición del Newsletter del grupo AIK os enviamos noticias de eventos, publicaciones e información sobre el funcionamiento de esta red que estamos estableciendo entre todes.

Índice

Publicaciones

¡Traemos buenas noticias!

Esta misma semana acaba de publicarse el Vol. 5 (2025) de Animal Ethics Review. Este volumen cuenta con contribuciones de algunas personas de esta red y queremos aprovechar para felicitaros por vuestro trabajo y aportaciones. Tal y como podés ver a continuación, este diverso volumen cuenta con aproximaciones desde discintas disciplinas y objetos de estudio, Os animamos a echar un vistazo, ¡leer y compartir!

• Mirón-Florido, Natalia. 2025. “‘Blue Monkeys’ and Space Whales. An Intersectional Approach to Orientalism and Speciesism in James Cameron’s Avatar Franchise”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.01   
• Duarte, Sofía. 2025. “Exploring the Ethics of Animal Experimentation in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.02v   
• Miquel-Baldellou, Marta. 2025. “The Dynamics of Agency and Exploitation, Animal-Human Bonds, and the Role of the Gaze in Jordan Peele’s Nope”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.09  

• Guerrero-García, María Cristina. 2025. “Hunting Dorian: animals, hunting and vivisection in Oscar Wilde (1885-1891)”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.03   
• Jiménez-Pérez, Irati. 2025. “Literary Naturalism in North America: Nonhuman Animals as Anthropomorphised Symbols”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.05  
• Contreras Ameduri, Clara. 2025. “Of Birds and Boys: Deconstructing the Hunter’s Discourse through Women’s Nature Writing in the Nineteenth Century”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.07  
• Rosas-Romero, Sergio I. 2025. “Miradas no-humanas en la narrativa del siglo XXI en español: los casos de Las efímeras (2015) y No es un río (2020)”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.06  
• Braceras-Martínez, Gorka. 2025. “Kaiola guztiak hutsik egon arte: animalien askapen eta ekintza zuzenaren errepresentazioak Jokerman 8 eleberrian”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.04  

• Lázaro-Terol, Surama. 2025. “Prácticas de racialización, (dis)capacidad y performances de desdomesticación”. Animal Ethics Review Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2025.v5.08  

Podéis encontrar todos los artículos en el siguiente enlace: https://www.upf.edu/web/cae-center-for-animal-ethics/aer5

Call for Papers / Call for Abstracts

Congresos

(1) Compassionate Futures. Dismantling the Dynamics of Power and Violence in Human-Animal Relationships International Conference

 Bartzelona, 17-19 June, 2025

 Auditorium  – Poblenou Campus – Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  Event website

Compassionate Futures: Dismantling the Dynamics of Power and Violence in Human-Animal Relationships is a critical exploration of the multifaceted power structures that govern human-animal interactions and the ethical imperative to reimagine these relationships with compassion at the forefront. This conference will bring together scholars, professionals, and advocates from diverse fields to engage in a thorough examination of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that continue to perpetuate the exploitation, oppression, and marginalisation of non-human animals (NHA hereafter).

The event aims to dissect the mechanisms by which humans assert dominance over NHA, from legal frameworks and economic interests to cultural narratives and institutional practices that sustain speciesism. In analysing these dynamics, we will interrogate how power operates to maintain the objectification and instrumentalization of NHA, often for human benefit, while reflecting on alternative pathways rooted in justice, empathy, and ethical responsibility.

Central to this conference is the exploration of how to distinguish between genuine ethical progress and superficial humane-washing. Humane-washing, often used to placate public concern, obscures the persistence of exploitative practices while allowing industries and institutions to maintain business as usual under the guise of reform. The conference will critically engage with the strategies and narratives that perpetuate this deception and, importantly, will highlight pathways to promote authentic, transformative change in how we relate to and treat NHA.

The conference also seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersectionality of animal oppression with other forms of violence and discrimination, such as racism, sexism, and environmental degradation, highlighting the importance of solidarity across social justice movements. By dismantling the dynamics of power and violence that structure human-animal relationships, Compassionate Futures envisions a world where NHA are recognized not as objects, but as subjects deserving of respect, dignity, and compassion.

Ultimately, this event invites participants to reflect, collaborate, and contribute to the creation of a more just and compassionate future for all beings, with a particular focus on identifying and overcoming the many strategies that simulate progress while obstructing real and transformative change.

Fees and registration

Registration fees (all include coffee-breaks and lunch). 

• With paper presentation: 150 € 
• For unemployed, students without scholarships and people with low income: 100 € 
• Without paper presentation: 75 €.
• For unemployed people, students without grants and people with low income: 50 €
• Scholarships: If you are unable to afford the conference fees due to financial constraints, we offer a limited number of scholarships to enable participation and paper presentations free of charge. To apply for it, just write to olatz.aranceta@upf.edu and include a brief justification explaining why you should be considered for funding.

Key dates

• Start of Abstract Submission: 15 December 2024
• Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2025
• Decisions on abstracts will be notified by: 15 March 2025

(2) Annual Meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists

 …what we feel is fully as important to the outcome of social affairs as what we think or do
Arlie Hochschild (1990, p.117)

Sociologists have long understood that the social world it not a solely rational place: it is messy, it is interactional and it is felt. Emotion management has a key role in supporting both work done to nonhuman animals (e.g. animal testing, fHarming, slaughter), and for nonhuman animals (e.g. activism, caretaking, critical animal research).

Increasing acknowledgement of the emotional and sensory experiences of nonhuman animals opens up exciting new avenues through which to better understand and challenge their exploitation. Here, methodological and theoretical innovation provides key resources for vegan sociologists to expand their toolkit.

In the 2025 meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists we invite participants to consider how emotions and sensory experiences are integral to understanding and challenging nonhuman animal exploitation.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Nonhuman animals as minded, feeling beings: how are animals’ emotions or sensory experiences minimised or acknowledged in society and/or vegan sociology research?
• Veganism, activism and emotional labour: How do activists navigate the emotions involved in advocating for other animals? What role does emotional labour play in vegan activism?
• Socialisation of emotions & animal exploitation: How are emotional norms or ‘rules’ around nonhuman animals socialised in ways that challenge or support vegan ways of being?
• Sensory experiences and the Body: how can vegan sociology help us to explore human and nonhuman animals’ felt experiences of the social world?
• Vegan Sociological perspectives on particular emotions: e.g. how might explorations of disgust, desire, grief, joy, sadness further our work for nonhuman animals
• Innovative research methods for exploring sensory elements of the multispecies social world: e.g. Emotional/Sensory mapping, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory methods
• Representations of nonhuman animal emotions: ‘happy’ exploited animals, suicide food, attempts to build empathy
• Digital emotions and online vegan communities
• Intersections of species, race, gender, and emotional politics

Title: Senses & Emotions

• Call for Paper Deadline: May 31, 2025
• Date: October 4 & 5, 2025
• Location: Online

Event website: https://www.vegansociology.com/conference/

(3) PASE 2025/Crossroads 5 ConferenceVoices of the Earth: Literary and Linguistic Perspectives in Environmental Humanities

June 4-6, 2025
University of Białystok, Poland

Deadline: March 1, 2025

Contact email: voicespase2025@gmail.com 

Suddenly, we became aware that humans could destroy the livability of the planet—whether intentionally or otherwise. This awareness only increased as we learned about pollution, mass extinction, and climate change. One half of current precarity is the fate of the earth: what kinds of human disturbances can we live with? Despite talk of sustainability, how much chance do we have for passing a habitable environment to our multispecies descendants?Anna Tsing

Traditional scientific approaches provide important information on climate change and environmental degradation; however, they typically fail to address the underlying cultural, ethical, and philosophical dimensions of such crises. These are deeply interwoven with economic and political agendas, and thus need multifaceted solutions. Environmental humanities connects diverse fields, enabling dynamic and interdisciplinary dialogue, which is essential in enhancing scientific efforts and promoting comprehensive solutions to intricate global challenges. Through the examination of cultural narratives, historical patterns, linguistic frameworks, and ethical discourses, environmental humanities enables us to reevaluate our connection with nature. By exploring the potential for composing a common world that unites both human and non-human entities, environmental humanities encourages a holistic understanding of our place within the ecosystem.

We welcome papers on literature, language, and culture that address questions broadly related to environmental humanities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• environmental harm/environmental justice/catastrophes and pandemics,
• ecological issues and enduring legacies of racism, enslavement, and colonialism,
• encounters between environmentalism and feminism,
• interrelationship between race, gender, poverty, and ecological concerns,
• climate migrations/climate trauma,
• natural landscape, landscape modification, ruins, spaces of abandonment,
• postnatural fiction, novels of the Anthropocene, Cli-Fi, extinction narratives, etc.,
• representation of objects/matter/non-human others in discourse,
• Indigenous knowledges and practices,
• ecodiscourses, practices of making and communicating ecological knowledge,
• media systems and artifacts embedded in ecological relationship,
• ecological analysis of language, ecostylistics,
• eco-translatology,
• ecological approach to teaching and learning, ecopedagogy, ecoliteracy,
• language ecology: language diversity, minority languages.

Event website: link

Monográficos

(1) La cuestión animal en la cultura latinoamericana y española. Representaciones de violencia hacia animales no humanos y (anti)especismos culturales

Convocatoria de monográficos para la revista ‘Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural’ (Q1 en Literatura y Teoría Literaria; Q2 en Estudios Culturales).

Con este monográfico invitamos a reflexionar e investigar, con un enfoque antiespecista y desde el prisma de los Estudios Culturales y de los Estudios Críticos Animales, sobre las representaciones culturales de violencia hacia animales no humanos (tanto las que reproducen narrativas especistas como aquellas que se proponen superar el especismo dominante). Específicamente, nos interesan las prácticas artísticas en el contexto latinoamericano y español de las últimas décadas (desde la segunda mitad del siglo xx hasta nuestros días). Entendemos las prácticas y producciones culturales en un sentido amplio, que integra productos literarios, fílmicos, u obras pictóricas, pero también, por ejemplo, propuestas performáticas o espacios museísticos.Dado el carácter amplio de la convocatoria, se valorarán especialmente los trabajos panorámicos y de gran angular, pero se tendrán también en cuenta los estudios de caso y los análisis de productos culturales específicos de especial relevancia. Del mismo modo, se valorará positivamente que el análisis presente una perspectiva interdisciplinar y se nutra de ámbitos variados. Este monográfico pretende reunir contribu-ciones que, superando lo descriptivo, ofrezcan un acercamiento crítico y riguroso a la cuestión, pero también afectivo; trabajos que, en suma, entiendan el conocimiento en términos situados (Haraway, 1988). A modo de orientación, proponemos los siguientes ejes de reflexión:

1. Posturas (anti)especistas en las representaciones de violencia hacia los animales no humanos.
2. Representaciones culturales de activismo antiespecista y de prácticas de libera-ción animal.
3. Opresión multidimensional e interseccionalidad en las representaciones de violencia animal. Perspectivas queer y (eco)feministas, veganismos negros y otros activismos.
4. El consumo literal del animal. Problematización cultural del carnismo y representa-ciones del referente ausente de la carne.
5. Representaciones de espacios de violencia hacia el animal
6. Puntos de vista no humanos en las ficciones de violencia hacia el animal.
7. Violencia humanimal en las ficciones. Figuras híbridas, animalización y otros meca-nismos de problematización del binomio ser humano – animal.
8. Antropoceno y ficciones distópicas. Representaciones de violencia climática y vio-lencia animal.
9. Estudios Críticos Animales y Estudios Veganos en el mundo hispánico

Fecha límite de entrega de contribuciones: 1 de mayo de 2025Publicación prevista: Junio de 2026Más información en la convocatoria completa: CFP

Datos de contacto:
Coordinación: Betlem Pallardó Azorín
Universitat de València (España) betlem.pallardo@uv.es

¡Hasta pronto!