CFP

Calls for papers and proposals that are either created by or of interest to VAS Members.

CFP: Benjamin's Animals. Figurations of the Animal

The Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (Berlin) will be hosting a workshop focused on Walter Benjamin and Animals. VAS' own Carlo Salzani will be giving the keynote presentation, which is tentatively titled Bestial Relationships: Benjamin’s Animals Between Shame and Redemption. If this workshop is of interest consider applying. The deadline for applications is 31 May 2026. Below you can find all the details of the call, all of which have been directly taken fro

Vienna Animal Studies

May 73 min read

CFP - Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations

We are now accepting chapter proposals for the edited handbook “Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations

Claudia Hirtenfelder

Feb 17, 20252 min read

CFP - Political Animals: Animality, Community, and the Future of the Body Politic | Dossier edited by Carlo Salzani

Receipt of works in the form of scientific articles, essays, reviews, interviews, literary texts, images or other formats that reflect on the theme, with a deadline of June 30, 2025 . Two and a half millennia ago, Aristotle provided Western political philosophy with a model that would establish the coordinates that define and organize politics and subjectivity in the West: in Book I of his Politics , he defined "man" (the masculine in the English translation, absent in the Gr

Carlo Salzani

Feb 17, 20254 min read