Recent scholarship on animal otherness as well as discussions of how to traverse boundaries of difference often draws upon a history of feminist theory and practice even as this borrowing remains unacknowledged. The purpose of this conference is to foreground the relations between feminist and animal studies and to examine the real and theoretical problems that are central to both fields of inquiry.

Literary, cultural, scientific, media studies, or other approaches to the notion of non-human animal “mind,” including but not limited to animal consciousness and subjectivity; animal “voices” and literary ventriloquism; animal narrators; animal communication or emotion; concepts of animal souls, afterlife, etc.

Anthropologists as well as scholars from a wide range of other disciplines of humanities, social, historical or environmental sciences are cordially welcome to participate. The conference is international, thus scholars from Central European region as well as beyond are encouraged to apply.

Hoping that you might find it of interest we remind you of the conference „Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations“ to be held in Tartu, Estonia on 4-8 April 2011. Our aim is to bring together scholars studying different aspects of semiotics of animals, animal representations, animal communication and zoosemiotics. Please find attached the conference CFP.