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2025 VAS Winter Lecture Series
We are proud to announce the speakers for our Winter Lecture Series including lectures by scholars based in Vienna who are working in the...

Vienna Animal Studies
42 minutes ago1 min read


Thinking about Bats in Vienna
Konstantin Deininger, Katharina Leibezeder, and I were recently interviewed by Mara-Daria Cojocaru about our contribution to the project "Philosophy in the Wild. Finding Hope in Mixed Communities," a project that between April 2025 and April 2026 will collect fieldnotes and multispecies poetry in an anthrozoological vasculum that represents Mary Midgley’s biscuit tin
Claudia Hirtenfelder
5 days ago7 min read


Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism: The Limits of Imagination: An Interview with the Author
Carlo Salzani, VAS member and animal ethicist, recently published Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism: The Limits of Imagination. We caught up with him to find out more about this open access book and his motivations for writing it.

Vienna Animal Studies
Jun 38 min read


What or Who Is an Animal? – Asking an Old Question in a New Way
Between May 15-16, at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, an international and interdisciplinary research project named “Contested Moral Framings: Human and Animal Life”, funded by AKTION, hosted a workshop titled “Toward an Understanding of Framing in Animal Ethics.”

Tamara Janjuš
Jun 33 min read


Doris Schneeberger shortlisted for the Siobhan O'Sullivan Book Prize
We are proud to announce that Vienna Animal Studies member Dr Doris Schneeberger has been shortlisted in the inaugural Siobhan O'Sullivan...

Vienna Animal Studies
Jun 22 min read


Zwischen Bytes und Bellen: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz unser Verhältnis zu Tieren verändert
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) verändert unsere gesellschaftlichen und unsere alltäglichen Praktiken – das ist nichts Neues. Doch was passiert, wenn wir den Nutzen und die Risiken dieser Technologie nicht nur in ihrer Anwendung auf Menschen, sondern auch auf nichtmenschliche Tiere bewerten? Denn auch für diese kann die Technologie disruptive Wirkungen entfalten, die mit zahlreichen ethischen Herausforderungen, aber auch Chancen, einhergehen.

Leonie N. Bossert
May 193 min read


Envisioning Multispecies Futures: a Report from the EACAS Conference 2025
The 2025 European Society for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS) meeting in Berlin was filled with inspiring, sober, and imaginative interventions into the world of animal studies,

Judith Benz-Schwarzburg
May 82 min read


Hello Nature: An Exhibition in Nuremburg
On the 30th and 31st of January 2025, running in tandem with the " Hello Nature " exhibition in Nuremburg, scholars and activists will...
Claudia Hirtenfelder
Jan 171 min read


The Animal Turn: Animals and Multispecies Health
Season 7 of the The Animal Turn podcast has an overt focus on dogs and is explicitly concerned with questions related to multispecies health
Claudia Hirtenfelder
Jan 31 min read


Welcome to the Vienna Animal Studies group
We are proud to launch The Vienna Animal Studies group which comprises of scholars and activists with interests in animals, the ways in whic
Claudia Hirtenfelder
Jan 1, 20251 min read
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