Looking to feature your ideas about vegan sociology or spotlight your ongoing or completed research?
Consider submitting to the IAVS blog page! โ
vegansociology.com/blog/
Calling all #IAVS2025 presenters!๐๏ธ
If you opted to record your presentation, and would like it posted on the IAVS YouTube channel, you can submit it via the link on our website!
www.vegansociology.com/iavs-2025-se...
7 months till the next IAVS conference...
... and just under 3 months until our CfP closes ๐จ
For those still working on your proposals, no pressure! We look forward to hearing from you ๐
Submission guidelines, proposed topics, and more available at www.vegansociology.com/conference/
Webinars for World Aquatic Animal Day, 3rd April 2026 ๐
'Unseen, Unprotected, and Underwater: Perspectives on Aquatic Animals' & 'From Objects to Subjects: Transforming the Way We See and Treat Aquatic Life'
Sign up here: shorturl.at/UiNts
New blog post! โ๏ธ
In 'Veganthropology: Defending Vegan Ethics Against Structural Speciesism' Annibal Franco presents 'veganthropology' as an alternative to anthropology, allowing nonhuman animals to "enter the scene as subjects of moral concern."
Read more: shorturl.at/HsIYw
New publication 'Animal Anxieties: A Postcolonial Analysis of Veganism in the Irish Discourse' by Corey Lee Wrenn in the Journal of Sociology ๐
www.academia.edu/164439583/An...
New blog post! โ๏ธ
In 'The Milk Mustache Is Back: Trump, RFK Jr., and the Return of White Power Milk', Vasile Stฤnescu draws on the twisted ideologies of whiteness, masculinity, and national belonging underpinning pro-dairy propoganda in the U.S. - read here ๐
www.vegansociology.com/2026/02/18/t...
Multispecies Collective (Re)launch event!
'This will be an opportunity for (re)connection of friends, old and new, and for the forging of new connections in the spirit of multispecies flourishing'
Event programme and tickets available via: shorturl.at/SA3X6
Upcoming Animals & Society Colloquium Series talk '๐ฆ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐: ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ'
๐24th Feb 2026
๐Online!
Register here: minnstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Therolinguistics Anthrology: On Languages Beyond the Human'
'Please submit your original composition consisting of a maximum 5000 words, comprehensive of a title and a 150 word bio to: editor@posthumanpress.com by the deadline, March 31st, 2026.'
More info: shorturl.at/1InxT
CfP Deadline extended! ๐ฃ
2nd Posthuman Studies Conference - Ethics of Emerging Technologies: In Between Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism
๐๏ธ - Abstracts of 250-300 words to be submitted by 10th March 2026
Further info, proposed topics, and more: www.posthumanstudies.org/projects/pos...
Call for Panelists: The proposed AEJMC panel, Covering Life Beyond Humans: Challenges in News Reporting(working title), is being organized in collaboration with the NOND and Media Ethics divisions.
๐ฃCall for Papers: Discursive coalitions, lobbies and media: critical analysis of contemporary discourses on animals and compassion
๐ Deadline: March 31, 2026
๐Further info + details on the scope of the special issue and submission guidelines: revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Am...
Just under 4 months left now until the deadline for submitting to present at this year's conference - 'Internationalizing Vegan Sociology'! #IAVS2026
Whether you're still brainstorming ideas or have a polished presentation, we look forward to hearing from you! ๐พ
www.vegansociology.com/conference/
New blog post! ๐
Michael D. Briscoeโs piece - โThe Loneliness and Madness of Teaching Tender is the Fleshโ - explores the emotional experience of teaching 'Tender is the Flesh', and the frustrations of challenging hegemonic norms and practices.
www.vegansociology.com/2026/01/28/t...
Reminder to submit your abstract before Friday!
You can now watch the CAE-Talk with Melanie Joy and Ricard Soler on our YouTube channel. They discussed carnism, societal change, the challenges of translating concepts to local contexts, and much more.
youtu.be/en-2yduOkDw
- โข The role of veganism in broader transitions toward sustainable and just future(s)"
Deadline for abstract submissions are on 30 January 2026 via: www.conftool.com/esa2026/
The full CFP can be found on: europeansociology.org/event/72289c...
- โข How intersections of race, class, gender, and/or species influence vegan identity and/or human-nonhuman animal relations
โข Interplay between critical sociology and veganism
โข Human and non-human animal relations within vegan sociology -
"We invite contributions that explore:
โข How veganism is represented, contested, or normalized
โข Social, cultural, and economic factors shaping vegan practices and/or nonhuman animal domination -
- identity, intersectionality, and other aspects. We encourage dialogue across critical theory, social movement studies, environmental sociology and humanโanimal studies."
"This research stream welcomes empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions that include nonhuman animals and challenge their oppression, and explore veganism as a social phenomenon, in relation to activism, policy, consumption, -
Upcoming deadline this Friday 30/1 for contributions for a new Research Stream on โVegan Sociology for nonhuman animalsโ (RS19) at the upcoming European Sociological Association Conference in Warsaw, Poland, 25-28 August 2026.
Full CFP: europeansociology.org/event/72289c...
๐พCheck out the latest issue of the Animal Studies Journal:
www.uowoajournals.org/asj/issue/15...)
Dr. Corey Lee Wrenn has uploaded a wonderfully insightful and informative video on YouTube introducing and exploring what exactly 'Vegan Sociology' is - a must watch for anybody interested in our field! ๐ฟ
youtu.be/xMzr81IMH9c?...
๐New book - "The Human and the Meat: Animal Domination in Capitalist Societies" - Chiara Stefanoni
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-hum...
Upcoming remote event: โLanguage and Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Symposium on Ecolinguisticsโ
๐
: February 5-6, 2026
๐- Sign up via link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Queries and proposals to be sent to info@vegansociology.com ๐ฉ
Our conference page has been finalised ๐จ
For all interested in presenting at our conference later this year, you can now find our official call for papers (and list of potential topics) on our website: www.vegansociology.com/conference/
A flyer for the European sociology association call for papers due January 30. Red flowers against a white background decorate the bottom of the flyer
A description of the call for papers for a vegan sociology stream of the European sociology association welcoming empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions that include nonhuman animals and challenge their oppression, and explore veganism as a social phenomenon, in relation to activism, policy, consumption, identity, intersectionality, and other aspects. The stream welcomes dialogue across critical theory, social movement studies, environmental sociology and human animal studies.
Animal studies folks! Some fab vegan sociologists are putting on a stream at ESA2026, please come so we can have many vegan adventures abstracts due Jan 30 โค๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฅฌ๐
