[ecrea] Call for Abstracts - Conference of the European Association for Critical Animal Studies

Communication scholars are very much welcomed to this multidisciplinary 
conference:

/6^th  Conference of the European Association for Critical Animal 
Studies (EACAS)/

*“Rethinking revolution: Nonhuman animals, antispeciesism and power”*

*Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 22-24 May 2019*

Call for abstracts:

Although human exploitation of nonhuman animals is by no means a modern 
development, it has grown exponentially in the last century. It is under 
capitalism that human abuse of their power over nonhuman animals has 
reached a massive scale, with a corresponding massive worsening of its 
consequences. This includes the suffering of trillions of sentient 
beings exploited in miserable conditions and killed for trivial purposes 
in the majority of cases, but also the massive contribution to global 
warming of industries like agribusiness, as well as the negative impact 
these practices have on social justice, intra-human violence and human 
health. The animal liberation movement therefore not only calls for 
justice and compassion for nonhuman animals, but also confront the 
results of industrial capitalism and modernity with a radical 
consciousness-raising claim. This claim is radical because it provides 
the most accurate condemnation of privilege and the status quo by 
revealing how inequality does not exist only at the intra-species level, 
but also at the inter-species level, and that both levels are closely 
interlinked and thus ought to be addressed jointly.

In the spirit of the field of Critical Animal Studies, the aim of this 
conference is to encourage scholars, students and activists to rethink 
the revolution that animal liberation theory represents since its 
inception in the 1970s, a social movement bringing the fight against 
oppression to its logical conclusion.

The conference welcomes proposals from a variety of scholars and 
disciplines – including critical academics, independent researchers, 
students and activists – reflecting on the intersecting themes of the 
conference: power, total liberation and antispeciesism. The conference 
also welcomes papers focused on any topic critically addressing nonhuman 
animals’ exploitation from a social science or humanities perspective, 
for a list of themes please check http://eventum.upf.edu/go/EACAS2019.

The conference encourages the approach of critical animal studies and 
non-speciesist perspectives on all sorts of discrimination, oppression 
and abuse towards farmed animals, animals in labs and animals in 
entertainment, among others, including animals living in the wild.

*Please send your abstracts by 15th December 2018 to *(cae /at/ upf.edu) 
<mailto:(cae /at/ upf.edu)>

All abstracts must be written in English. The conference language is 
English. Abstracts should include:

  * Abstract Title of 30 words maximum
  * Abstract Text of 500 words maximum
  * A brief biography of the author (150 words maximum) including name,
    affiliation and contact details

The number of submitted abstracts per author is limited to two.

We strongly encourage submissions by women and other socially 
underrepresented groups.

Decisions on abstracts will be notified by: 15 January 2019

*Conference website*: http://eventum.upf.edu/go/EACAS2019

*Organisers*: EACAS, UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, CRITICC Research 
group at Department of Communication of Universitat Pompeu Fabra

*Keynotes confirmed*: Claire Parkinson (Edge-Hill University UK), Elisa 
Aaltola (University of Turku, Finland), Aph Ko (Black decolonial theorist)

*Conference Committee:*

  * Núria Almiron, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  * Catia Faria, University of Minho
  * Daniela R. Waldhorn, Universitat de Barcelona
  * Laura Fernández, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  * Eze Paez, University of Minho


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