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ICAS OCEANIA

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Carolyn Drew
Executive Director of Regions, ICAS

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Carolyn Drew is an Australian academic and writer. She currently teaches out of University of Canberra and University of Canberra College. Her philosophy on education is inspired by Neil Postman and Paulo Freire. Carolyn’s main aim is to create a learning environment where the student is empowered through nurturing critical thinking skills. Concurrent with this area of interest is her passion for animal rights and activism. Carolyn is particularly interested in the human rupture from the natural world and its underpinning of the exploitation and abuse of animals, including that of humans, throughout history. In 2009 she co-authored ‘The Harvest’ published in the ‘Southerly’, Australia’s preeminent Australian English Association Journal. ‘The Harvest’ is a faction story based on the 2008 slaughter of 512 kangaroos trapped in a disused Naval Transmission Station in Canberra, Australia. Carolyn has a BA in Communication Honours (Canb) and a Masters in Education in Adult education (UTS).

Lara Drew
Project Director, ICAS Oceania

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Lara is passionate about social justice and is a committed activist on a range of issues. This passion for social justice has seen a broadening of interest in both human and animal rights. Lara is an artist and uses charcoal, pencil and pen for portraiture and political statements often using her art as a form of advocacy. She holds a Bachelor of ‘Community Education’ and Honours in ‘Social and Community Studies’ from the University of Canberra. She is currently doing a PhD at the University of Canberra examining the animal advocacy movement and its intrinsic link to radial forms of education. Generally, the educational methods directly influence the practice of advocacy and learning essentially determining how effective advocates are. Through narrative analysis informed by visual imagery, Lara’s PhD research plans to examine the implications of the ways in which advocates go about educating other advocates for social change. Finally, Lara also illustrated a book “Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story” by Anthony Nocella and Sarat Colling.

Jessica Ison
Representative, ICAS Oceania

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Jessica Ison is a PhD candidate at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is writing on the intersections of queer theory and animal liberation. She is a tutor at RMIT University in Global, Urban and Social Studies. Jess is the 2014 ICAS Tyke scholar of the year and the chair of the Gender and Sexuality Intersectional Research Collaborative. Currently Jessica is compiling a book of queer critiques of gay marriage in Australia called To The Exclusion of All Others. She lives in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land, with a bunch of nonhuman and human animals.

Collin Salter

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Colin Salter, previously an Institute for Critical Animals Studies board member, teaches in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. His research explores approaches to, bases for and process of change in social justice activism—building on more than 15 years of grassroots activism. His publications include the books Whiteness and Social Change: Remnant Colonialisms in Australia and Canada (2103) and Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex (Editor, in press) and the paper Activism as Terrorism: The Green Scare, Radical Environmentalism and Governmentality (2011).

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ICAS AFRICA

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Dr. Les Mitchell is the Director of the Hunterstoun Centre of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa and is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He has worked in the U.K., Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa.  His research interests are critical realism, non-human animals, discourses, power, hierarchy, genocide, moral disengagement, and alternatives to violence.

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Aragorn Eloff is a supporter of animal liberation and a proponent of anarchism and radical environmentalism. He is an independent researcher and activist with a particular interest in the application of poststructuralist, neo-materialist and anarchist ethical philosophy towards analysing and dismantling all forms of oppressive social and ecological relations based on inculturated practices of hierarchy, exploitation and domination.

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Dr. Nadia Sanger works as a research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town. Her research interests include post-colonial feminist theory, constructs of identities, and the multiple intersections between gender, race, species, and sexuality in fiction, non-fiction and popular culture. Nadia’s most recent research includes a book project that explores the relationship between human beings and other animals in post-apartheid South Africa through the lens of postcolonial theory. The book seeks to begin a conversation on what is possible, in theory and practice, when we extend selected feminist post-structuralist thought, and postcolonial theory, to engage questions on ‘species difference’ in a post-apartheid space.

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Sarah Smith lectures in Legal Philosophy at the University of South Africa. She has published articles in the fields of feminism and animal liberation. Her current research looks into the potential of social networks as a teaching tool for open distance learning.  She sits on various South African animal interest think tanks and organised the conference Animals in Law and Society: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond. She is also a member of the International Fund for Africa a non–profit corporation committed to preventing, alleviating, and abolishing suffering of human and non–human animals.

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Colleen Mollentze  is a psychology honours student, long-term vegetarian and vegan.  Believes strongly that animal advocacy and direct action should be supported by a strong theoretical framework.  Particular interest in the problems of anthropocentrism, the intersect between animal rights and human rights, as well as the links between animal cruelty and violence towards humans. Spends many hours both online and in real life promoting veganism and animal rights ideology. Blogger for Penton Independent Pagan Media.

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Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues holds a PhD from the University of York (UK) and has published in the South African Journal of Philosophy, Political Studies Review, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Green Theory and Praxis Journal and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His research interests are activism, animal rights, multiculturalism, philosophy of race and LGBT.

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Andrea Marais-Potgieter has a degree in Journalism and a Masters in Psychology.  She is currently busy with her PhD and aims to contribute to the new and exciting field of EcoPsychology that addresses the pathological relationship humans have with nature and animals.  Andrea has done qualitative research across 15 African countries over the past 6 years and has extensive experience in branding, marketing and strategy.  She is passionate about Jungian analysis, Ecofeminist theory, Symbolism and Activism.

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ICAS NORTH AMERICA

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Ian Purdy (Canada)
Executive Director of Publicity

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1. Activism
2. Animal Liberation History
3. Revolutionary Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
4. Social movement theory

Ian Purdy is a grassroots activist based in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Master of Social Justice and Equity Studies (with a CAS focus) from Brock University.  Additionally, Ian holds a BA in English (University of Toronto) and a BSc in Nursing (Ryerson University.) His MA dissertation explored recruitment in the Canadian animal rights movement during the 1970s and 1980s. Ian presented ‘Canada’s Foie Gras Industry’ and ‘The Portrayal of the Animal Liberation Front in Canadian Newspapers in the Early 1990s’ at the 2011 and 2012 ICAS conferences, respectively. By day Ian works as a project manager at an epidemiological health research institute; by night he co-organizes an open lecture series at the University of Toronto called the Animal Rights Academy (http://animalrightsacademy.org/). Day and night he dotes on his family of rescued companion animals.
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Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II (United States)
Executive Director of Total Liberation Campaigns

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1. Intersectional Inclusive Social Justice Education and Environmental Education/Ecopedagogy
2. Critical Criminology
3. Dis-Ability/Eco-ability Studies/Pedagogy
4. Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., award-winning author, community organizer, and educator is an Assistant Professor in sociology and criminology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Nocella the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, is a scholar-activist grounded in the field of education, critical criminology, and peace and conflict studies. He is internationally known for his innovative, transformative, and intersectional collaborations among fields of study, social movements, scholars, communities, and activists. Dr. Nocella has published more than fifty scholarly articles or book chapters, co-founded more than ten active political organizations and serves on four boards. He has founded three book series and co-founded three journals – Green Theory and Praxis, Peace Studies Journal, and Journal of Critical Animal Studies, is on the editorial board of three other journals, and has published more than twenty books. His site is www.anthonynocella.org.
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Dr. Amber George (United States)
Executive Director of Finance

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1. Nonhuman ethics
2. Eco-ability
3. Critical Race, disability, and gender studies
4. Cultural studies

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Dr. Sean Parson (United States)
Interim Editor, Journal for Critical Animal Studies

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Sean Parson is an assistant professor In the departments of Politics and International Affairs and Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University. Is if completing a book manuscript on Anarchist Homeless Activism in San Francisco and is working on a new project on Superheroes narratives in comics and movies and the intersection of cultural studies, environmental political theory, and animal studies.

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Dr. Johnny Lupinacci (United States)
Executive Director of Publications

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 1. Environmental Education/EcoJustice/Ecopedagogy
2. Urban Education/Place-based Education
3. Critical Disability/Eco-ability Studies
4.  Anarchist Pedagogies/Cultural Studies

Dr. Lupinacci’s research focuses on how people, specifically educators, learn to both identify and examine destructive habits of modern human culture and how those habits are taught and learning in schools. His work proposes that, through educational activist networks, teachers can be leaders in confronting dominant assumptions about the habits of mind underwriting social injustices and environmental degradation.

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Dr. Joe Leeson-Schatz (United States)
Executive Director, Intersectional Research Collaborative

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1. Disability and Eco-ability Studies
2. Cultural & Media Studies
3. Transhumanist Studies
4. Feminist Theory

Joe Leeson-Schatz is a Professor of English and Feminist Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton University where he also serves as the Director of the Speech and Debate Team, which was ranked 1st in the nation in 2008. He has published essays on technology and apocalypse, environmental securitization, disability studies, and the influence of science-fiction on reality.

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ICAS EUROPE

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ICAS ASIA

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Bogna Konior (Hong Kong)
ICAS Asia Co-Director

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1. Continental Philosophy
2. Anthropology of science
3. Media studies
4. Political theory

Bogna M Konior is currently pursuing her PhD on Southeast Asian cinema and post-anthropocentric politics of non-human personhood at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has previously studied critical theory, film, and philosophy in London and Amsterdam. Aside from representing ICAS Asia, she is also the co-organizer of the New Materialism Society, Hong Kong, devoted to the reclaiming of materiality in contemporary critical and philosophical thought and practice, especially in relation to activism, art, and revolution. Over the years, she has worked as a freelance curator and film programmer at OT301 in Amsterdam, and a member of the jury at Five Flavors Film Festival in Warsaw, devoted to promoting independent Asian cinema, as well as easternKicks.com.

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Sara Tsui (Hong Kong)
ICAS Asia Co-Director

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1. Animal Law
2. Legal Education
3. Animal welfare, policies and the Law
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Sara Tsui is a lawyer and a law lecturer in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. After she qualified as a practicing solicitor and practiced in the legal field, she turned to academia and is currently completing her doctorate. Her focus in academia and research has been non-human related issues ranging from law, welfare and ethics to the relationship between humans and non-human subjects. Her current doctorate thesis is on the policies and laws on animal related legislations in Hong Kong. Sara also believe in the need of education in non-human related issues and therefore have set up the first Animal Law course at the university where she teaches and the first general courses on animal welfare, ethics and law. She is also the founding member of the first Animal Welfare Research Center in Hong Kong – where the aim is to promote the discussion of non-human welfare, ethics and law at many different levels.

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