<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(41, 55, 125); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(41, 55, 125); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Conflict and Struggle, Resistance and Change</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><b class="">2015 ICAS Oceania Conference, Melbourne 9-11 July</b></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">In a world of conflict and struggle, resistance and change, there is an ever present need for discussion and analysis. For the third annual ICAS Oceania conference we aim to focus on the multiplicities of struggle and resistance in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. By undertaking a Critical Animal Studies analysis of both the local and the global issues arising from interlocking oppressions and repression, we seek to foster new discussions on how to facilitate change.</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(41, 55, 125); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(41, 55, 125); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Open call for papers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">The Institute for Critical Animals Studies (ICAS) Oceania conference organising committee are seeking panels proposals, workshops and papers providing comparative engagement across countries and regions. Intersectional and transdisciplinary panels, visual art pieces and installations, and bilingual panels are encouraged. Non-academic and activist papers that explore grassroots movements are also sought.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Topics may include but are not limited to:</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px 63.8px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -63.8px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Topics may include but are not limited to:</p><ul class="">
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>How conflict impacts non human animals</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>The effects of climate change within the region</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Intersectional analysis of activist movements</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>The criminalisation and prosecution of dissent</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Gendered violence</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Gendering of animals</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Queering of animals</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Global power and local resistance</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Learning communities, pedagogy and resistance</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Representations of animals in art, film and literature</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>International conflict & change</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Re-imagining the anthropocene</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span>Animals and urban-rural conflicts</li>
</ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">In the first instance, submit a 250-300 word abstract and short bio to <a href="mailto:icasoceania@gmail.com" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">icasoceania@gmail.com</span></a> with ‘ICAS Oceania 2015’ in the subject line, by <b class="">March 28</b>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">
</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">The 2015 ICAS Oceania Conference is a Minding Animals partner event.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""></div></body></html>