CLOSED – Call for Presentations

Call for Presentations

We welcome proposals from all community members, including but not limited to nonprofit organizations, political leaders, activists, professors, staff, and students. We are especially interested in topics such history of social movements, nonviolence, alliance politics, spirituality and social movements, freedom, democracy, and notions of total inclusion. We are also interested in reaching across the disciplines and movements of environmentalism, education, poverty, feminism, LGBTQA, animal advocacy, globalization, prison abolition, prisoner support, labor rights, disability rights, anti-war activism, youth rights, indigenous rights/sovereignty, and other peace and social justice issues.

Areas of inquiry include:

  • The Future of Critical Animal Studies
  • Anarchist Studies
  • Eco-Feminism
  • Media
  • Social Networking
  • Green Criminology
  • Critical Criminology
  • Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
  • Speciesism and Beyond
  • Animals in Relation to Religion and Spiritual Traditions
  • Abolition a Theory or Strategy
  • Animals and Property
  • Animals, Species, and Earthlings
  • Challenges to Human Domination
  • Film and Animals
  • Sexuality and Animals
  • Culture, Language, and Animal Communities
  • Domestiazation and Wild Animals
  • Deconstructing the Humans and Animal Binary
  • Re-Defining Nature
  • Bio Ethics and Universal Ethics
  • Posthumanism
  • Post-Colonialism
  • Geography and Space and Place of Animals
  • An Animal Economics
  • Critical Environmental Studies
  • Critical Animal Pedagogy
  • Animal Epistemology
  • Vivisection in Higher Education
  1. Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length.
  2. We are receptive to different and innovative formats, including, but not limited to roundtables, panels, community dialogues, theater, and workshops.
  3. You may propose individual or group ‘panel’ presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal.

***Please stress in your paper/roundtable/panel/etc. how you will be focusing on the program theme and linking it to environmental justice and animal advocacy, rights, liberation, and protection.

Please send proposals OR abstracts for panels, roundtables, workshops, or paper presentations no more than 500 words. Please send with each facilitator or presenter a 100 maximum word biography.

**The Deadline for Submissions is February 15, 2010.

**Accepted presenters will be notified by e-mail by Feb 20, 2010.

Please send proposals/abstracts and biographies electronically to:

Sarat Colling
Co-Conference Director
editor@politicalmediareview.org

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Co-sponsored by:

Institute for Critical Animal Studies
Women’s Studies, SUNY Cortland
Transformative Studies Institute
Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), SUNY Cortland
Anarchist Studies Initiative, SUNY Cortland
Political Media Review
Sacco and Vanzetti Foundation
Institute for Disability Studies, SUNY Cortland
Center for Green Criminology and Security Studies
Save the Kids
Criminology Club, SUNY Cortland
Outdoor Empowerment
Central New York Peace Studies Consortium
Social Advocacy and Systems Change, SUNY Cortland
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, SUNY Cortland