"Thinking about animals..." book featured in MAI bulletin

The book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene, edited by me, Kristin Armstrong Oma and Silver Rattasepp, is featured in Minding Animals International´s Bulletin no. 33, p. 14.

"Animals in the Anthropocene" CFP in MAI Bulletin

The First Call for Papers for the conference "Animals in the Anthropocene: Human-animal relations in a changing semiosphere", which is to be held in Stavanger, Norway, September 17-19th 2015, appears in full length, and with extra coverage, in the 27th Bulletin of Minding Animals International, which has been distributed to some 3.000 scholars, activists and artists the last few days. The conference is co-arranged by Minding Animals Norway. 

Theme session proposals are due December 15th, abstracts for individual presentations March 1st 2015.

Featured in Minding Animals International bulletin #19, MA Norway "most successful MA national group"

In mid-October 2013, the 19th bulletin of Minding Animals International, which is distributed via email to some 2.000 activists and others with an interest in Human-Animal Studies, was distributed. I was featured on p. 7 (see below), as part of a story titled "Meet the Minding Animals Board and Committee members" (pp. 5-7). Here, Minding Animals Norway is characterised as "the most successful MA national group".

Fish happiness conference listed in MAI bulletin #23

The upcoming fish happiness/welfare conference in Trondheim (August 20th), the 3rd Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, is listed in bulletin no. 23 of Minding Animals International, which is distributed these days (p. 6).

Report from poultry welfare seminar in MAI bulletin #22

In the last issue of the Bulletin of Minding Animals International there is a 1-page report from the April 7th Minding Animals Norway/Norway's Green Party seminar on animal welfare in the poultry industry arranged in the Norwegian parliament, written by Une Aina Bastholm and myself and entitled "Report from seminar on animal welfare in poultry production in Norway's parliament".

See also:

Minding Animals parliament seminar reported on in poultry industry magazine

Mention of Norwegian animal ethics conference in MAI bulletin no. 17

In the 17th bulletin of Minding Animals International, reference is made to seven upcoming Partner Events, including:

22 August, 2013: Oslo, Norway

Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2013

I am the contact person. For up-to-date information about what is in Norwegian called Dyreetikkonferansen 2013, see the conference website (in Norwegian). More info will appear soon.

Minding Animals Bulletin no. 7

The seventh Bulletin of Minding Animals International was distributed the last few days. At 20 pages, it details a number of upcoming pre-conference lecture events, and more (such as a call for people to convene lunchtime roundtables at the Utrecht conference in 2012). It also envelops a wolf poster presented here in Utopian Realism advertising for the Oslo "Shared Worlds" event October 14-15, and a flyer for the Uppsala event October 17-18.

See also: Flyer for the Uppsala event "Zoo-ethnographies"

Minding Animals International: Bulletin no. 6

Minding Animals International has just issued its sixth bulletin.

In the accompanying email, convenor and CEO of MAI Rod Bennison writes that "we now have groups established in Norway, Italy, Germany, India and Australia, with discussions having commenced for Belgium, France and Laos." Further: "We would especially like to hear from anyone interested in setting up Minding Animals 'national' groups."

In the bulletin, I am mentioned as one of the organizers of the October 14-15 Oslo "Shared Worlds" event - now presented in the bulletin under the title "Shared Worlds (Horse-human relations; Wolf-human relations)" - plus as a speaker at the October 17-18 Uppsala event "Zoo-Ethnographies".

FAO minding animals

The 5th Bulletin of Minding Animals International, where my participation in MA Oslo (as an organizer) and MA Uppsala (as a speaker) is mentioned, has been uploaded to the webpage of FAO, The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.

MIA bulletin no. 3

The third Minding Animals International pre-conference bulletin was distributed 5 days ago, and included details about the Oslo event.

14[-15] October, 2011: Oslo, Norway
Host: Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo
Event title: Shared Worlds
Venue: Domus Nova, Oslo (St. Olavs plass 5 - room to be advised)
Time and Date: 14-15 October, 2011
Organised by: Minding Animals International in association with Nordic Human Animal Studies
Affiliated institutions: Equine Research Network (EqRN) and Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu by ESF grant 7790 Dynamical Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations
Organising team: Rune Ellefsen, Rhys Evans, Morten Tønnessen
The program will include plenary speeches, a roundtable on the shared worlds of humans and horses, a roundtable of the shared worlds of humans and wolves, and a position note workshop on the relation between activism and academia
Contact: shared.worlds.oslo@gmail.com
Conference language: English and Norwegian
Website: http://mindinganimals.wordpress.com/