CFP for a new journal on human-animal studies: Trace

I have been asked to distribute the Call For Papers below. Trace will be published by the Finnish Association for Human-Animal Studies,

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CFP for a new journal on human-animal studies: Trace 

The Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies is launching a new scientific journal called
Trace – Finnish Journal for Human-Animal Studies. 

Trace is a peer-reviewed, fully open access online journal that provides a forum for the discussion of human-animal relations from social and cultural perspectives. The journal publishes original research articles, lectiones praecursoriae, and conference reports, as well as reviews on books, art exhibitions, films, and other media. Trace accepts submissions in Finnish, English, and Swedish. 

Trace invites contributions to human-animal studies that deal with a wide range of topics and represent diverse perspectives. The editorial board encourages writers to offer multi- and transdisciplinary contributions which broaden the conventional ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies applied in human-animal studies. 

The first Editor-in-Chief for Trace is D.S.Sc. Outi Ratamäki (University of Eastern Finland & Finnish Environment Institute), who is substituted for the first issue by D. Sc. Nina Nygren (University of Tampere, Finland). 

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The deadline for submissions for the first issue of Trace is 15. 12. 2014. The issue will be out in the spring of 2015. 

For more information on the journal and on submitting, visit the journal’s homepage. 

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Human-animal studies is a broad and multidisciplinary field of research that includes a diversity of topics, such as the social, cultural and material construction of beliefs, values and attitudes relating to animals; the ethics and politics of animal issues; animal welfare legislation and governance; approaches to the agency of animals; philosophical issues in the epistemology and ontology of human-animal relations; as well as a variety of other theoretical and practical questions concerning human-animal relations.

Webpage for Norwegian Animal Protection Day 2015 launched; Minding Animals Prize planned

A working group sorting under Minding Animals Norway is preparing Norwegian Animal Protection Day 2015, which is to take place in Oslo in Spring 2015. The ultimate goal is to make this an annual event. The event will include a seminar and a party with one or more prizes being awarded (including the Minding Animals Prize for best Human-Animal Studies research).

Here is the website of the Norwegian Animal Protection Day 2015. The organising committee is currently looking for volunteers and sponsors.

Book introduction at Framing nature conference: The Semiotics of Animal Representations

The edited anthology The Semiotics of Animal Representations, which will appear in a few weeks, published by Rodopi, will be presented during the conference "Framing nature: Signs, Stories and Ecologies of Meaning" (Tartu, April 29 - May 3). Specifically, my fellow editor Kadri Tüür and I will present the book during the conference's "Postgraduate reception, poster session and book exhibition", which will take place Tuesday April 29th at 18-19 (Struve 1 – room 244).