Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association

06/11/2026

We are holding Human-Animal Futures in a Changing World - a post-ASA Mini-Conference on August 12th from 9:00am - 3:00pm. This mini-conference is free for all attendees and will be a wonderful opportunity to network and discuss current trajectories and scholarship in Animal Studies. In addition to an exciting panel of talks, we will hold workshops on animal representation in disasters (centered on the impact of ICE), mentorship within our field, and a lightning networking activity. It is organized by Animals & Society and sponsored by the NYU Department of Environmental Studies. Lunch will be provided. The final program for the mini-conference will be released in the coming weeks.

We have opened our official registration for this event: Register here by June 30th: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Lz33DwrqNpsbga

04/20/2026

"On a busy tourist strip in Orlando, behind noisy bars and souvenir shops, 21 sloths in crates reached the end of a grueling international trip. The tree-dwelling mammals were transferred to a warehouse resembling an old oil-change garage and placed in cages. The warehouse is the off-site facility of a new roadside attraction called “Sloth World,” a $49 animal encounter marketed as a conservation-focused center scheduled to open soon. Nothing could have prepared the sloths for this. Until recently, they lived wild in the forest canopies of Guyana. "

The animals, highly susceptible to illness when removed from their habitat, have been kept in a warehouse. More than 31 have died.

03/19/2026

Reminder! Deadline approaching for this amazing CFP in an Open Access journal! Invites works on discursive coalitions, lobbies and media: critical analysis of contemporary discourses on animals and compassion. For more info: https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Ambitos/announcement/view/489?fbclid=IwY2xjawQpBKVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFtWlgwMVhQRzZKenY5bFp3c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkFCohWV9DUhHoCzY-QCDBzaoODgyaId0vKanZIfrBCh1kWDCF3t38ynPjnN_aem_xagFVIzD2r29ujV4uiaOHw

01/30/2026

Call For Papers! Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación invites submissions for a special Open Access issue: Discursive coalitions, lobbies and media: critical analysis of contemporary discourses on animals and compassion. Deadline March 31! Please share widely. Details: https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Ambitos/announcement/view/489

11/05/2025

Premiering tonight on PBS Nature
a documentary about the pigeons of London & New York to "uncover their secret world. Witness the challenges of city life and how the humble pigeon has overcome them!"

Uncover the secret world of New York and London’s resilient pigeon flocks, seeing how they adapt to the challenges of city life and thrive alongside people. Narrated by Bobby Moynihan.

10/04/2025

Find the schedule at vegansociology.com/conference
Zoom link in comments

Hi everyone, the 6th annual vegan sociology conference is about to begin!!! See a zoom link in the comments for free attendance. The schedule can be found on the website at vegansociology.com/conference

We have 5 panels today featuring speakers such as Kate Stewart, Matthew Melsa (fm. Cole), Kadri Aavik, and Zoei Sutton! I'm also super excited to see some of the presentations from our graduate students and early career researchers who are doing some CUTTING edge research that I've already been citing in my own work. This is veganism in action--I love it!

See you soon x

09/12/2025

Register for this exciting upcoming talk!

On Thursday September 25, 12 pm ET/9am PT. The 2022 CAF grantee Dr. Shaina Sadai will discuss "Sea Level Rise and Multispecies Climate Justice."

Talk Description: Climate change is causing sea levels to rise at an accelerating rate, impacting shorelines around the world. The long-term impacts will occur over generations and will be highly spatially variable along coastlines. Sea level rise impacts and adaptation responses vary geographically and affect all who dwell in or move through coastal spaces. The emerging lens of multispecies climate justice allows us to look deeper into the interrelated ecologies of climate impacts by considering a broad assessment of interrelated beings and ecosystems. This talk will discuss research on the global impacts of sea level rise on nonhuman animals, and implications for advancing multispecies climate justice. This work is part of a forthcoming book on Multispecies Climate Justice being coedited by Drs. Sadai, Cifuentes, and Rutherford. Speaker: Dr. Shaina Sadai, Five College Associate Dr. Shaina Sadai (she/her) is a climate scientist and critical physical geographer. Her research focuses on projecting future global changes in climate and sea level; attributing climate impacts to corporate high emitters; and understanding climate justice, particularly through critical geographies of sea level rise and multispecies climate justice frameworks.

06/13/2025

Tomorrow in NYC! In celebration of Iván Argote’s Dinosaur—the striking 17-foot-tall aluminum pigeon sculpture at the Spur on the High Line—and National Pigeon Appreciation Day, the High Line presents Pigeon Fest, a full-day festival celebrating pigeons, urban ecology, and public art. Taking place along the half-mile stretch of 30th Street on the High Line, the festival features free public programming including pigeon-themed carnival games, family-friendly art workshops, a Pigeon Impersonation Pageant, panel discussions around related themes, and a concert presented in collaboration with the Birdsong Project

Pigeon Fest is a full-day festival celebrating pigeons, urban ecology, and public art.

06/12/2025

"In The Dying Trade, a forthcoming documentary film about slaughterhouse workers, a man named Tom describes a moment during his career that still haunts him many years later: the time he skinned a cow alive while she was giving birth.

Tom worked at slaughterhouses across Europe from the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, and one of his jobs on the production line was to remove the skin from animals after they had been hung up, stunned unconscious, and bled out. That’s how it’s supposed to work in theory."

What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind.

06/12/2025

Must Read new book by professor John Sanbonmatsu
"Offers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for food. Millions of Americans see themselves as "conflicted omnivores," worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure the truth of the matter: in John Sanbonmatsu’s view, killing and eating animals is unethical, regardless of whether they are "free range" or factory farmed. Shattering the conventional wisdom around the meat economy, he reframes the question of animal agriculture from one of "sustainability" to one of existential and moral purpose, presenting a powerful case for the total abolition of the animal economy. In a rejoinder to Michael Pollan and other critics who have told us that we can have our meat and our consciences, too, he shows why "humane meat" is always a contradiction in terms.

The Omnivore’s Deception provides a deeply observed philosophical meditation on the nature of our relationship with animals. Peeling back the myriad layers of myth, falsehoods, and bad faith that keep us eating meat, the book offers a novel perspective on our troubled relations with animals in the food economy. The problem with raising and killing animals for food isn't just that it's "bad for the environment,” but the wrong way to live a human life.

A tour de force of moral philosophy and cultural critique, The Omnivore's Deception will change the way we think about meat, animals, and human purpose."

Offers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for foodMillions of Americans see themselves as "conflicted omnivores," worrying abo...