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AASG Bulletin Jun 2012 Issue 16, June 2012 News Bulletin http://www.aasg.org.au CONTENTS NATIONAL NEWS ........................................................................................................................................ 3 REGIONAL NEWS ....................................................................................................................................... 6 SPECIAL REPORT:ANIMAL HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN: ADELE MAPPERSON .......................................... 14 CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIUMS ........................................................................................................... 16 INTERVIEW: LYNDA STONER .................................................................................................................. 23 GROUPS, INSTITUTES AND NETWORKS ............................................................................................... 26 NEW BOOKS .............................................................................................................................................. 33 JOURNALS................................................................................................................................................. 42 EXHIBITIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 47 ARTWORK.................................................................................................................................................. 53 WEBSITES, VIDEO & AUDIO .................................................................................................................... 54 LINKS .......................................................................................................................................................... 56 PROFILES: JOHN BAGULEY, CHRISTOPHER NEFF, RHEYA LINDEN ................................................ 59 MEMBERSHIP..…………………………………………………………………………………………………62 Issue 16, June 2012 News Bulletin http://www.aasg.org.au AASG News AASG Annual Meeting The AGM will be held to coincide with Animal Death Symposium at the University of Sydney. The meeting is open to all AASG members, including those who are not attending the symposium. DAY & TIME: June 13, 1.15pm LOCATION: University of Sydney, Room N497, John Woolley Building. This map indicates the Parramatta Rd side of the Campus: http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?location=12E For those who cannot attend the meeting in person it is possible to both nominate for committee positions and vote by proxy - see forms attached. Please note that nominations by email must be submitted by Wednesday 6th June. Our Sydney hosts have indicated that it may be possible to set up a Skype link at the meeting. If you are interested in attending the meeting via Skype please contact Fiona Probyn-Rapsey: [email protected] Animal Studies Journal The AASG is pleased to announce its new online journal, the Animal Studies Journal http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/. The journal is interdisciplinary and international, publishing animal studies scholarship from Australia, New Zealand, Asia-Pacific areas and beyond. It will appear twice-yearly in an open-access format. A call for papers for the 2012/2013 editions is now open – see the Journals section of this bulletin for more details. Editor: Melissa Boyde [email protected] Associate editors: Sally Borrell [email protected] and Natalie Edwards [email protected] Membership AASG relies on membership fees to support and improve its initiatives. With these funds we can continue to provide you with services such as the Bulletin and the website―where you can access information about animal studies, find funding opportunities, and access past issues of this publication. Membership will also ensure listing of your profile on the website: http://www.aasg.org.au/participants JOIN AASG You can join AASG online: Pay fees by EFT, accessible by hitting the JOIN US button on the Group’s website: http://www.aasg.org.au/ Or scan, fax or email a completed membership form, available online or at the bottom of this Bulletin, with your payment to: [email protected], fax: 6226 4308 or post to: Dr Yvette Watt, Treasurer, Australian Animal Studies Group, Box 4648, Bathurst St PO, Hobart TAS 7001 Annual membership fees: $40 for waged applicants, $20 for student, concession, or unwaged members 2 National News Report: Conversations with Anna Krien in Melbourne and Sydney By Siobhan O’Sullivan and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey The Quarterly Essay is an institution in Australia. It was therefore unexpected, but most pleasing, to learn that the March 2012 essay would be dedicated to nonhuman animals. “Us & Them: On the importance of animals” by Anna Krien is probably the first quarterly essay that addresses the subject of nonhuman animals. When Siobhan met Anna at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre she asked her how the essay came about. Anna relayed that in conversation with the editors she commented that the quarterly essays tend to be about white men. She told O’Sullivan that the editors asked her what she thought they should be about, and her replay came back ‘animals’. With that she was on her way. Over the next couple of months Krien travelled to Indonesia and rural Australia; read extensively; and thought at length about animal issues. The result is a reflection on how we currently treat animals and the complex moral issues surrounding the human/nonhuman relationship. In Krien’s view the question should not be ‘is our relationship with animals just?’ She believes it is not. Rather, the question should be ‘how much injustice are we prepared to accept?’ Unfortunately the answer to this question seems to be: quite a lot. Whether or not tolerance for cruelty is related to ignorance, denial, distance, speciesism, cultural relativist arguments that displace the problem on to ‘them’, or indeed a combination of these and other factors, is still up for discussion. Interestingly, her essay identifies age as a factor in the heightening of what Coetzee would call a ‘sympathetic imagination’. An awareness of our own mortality is one factor, Krien suggests, that seems to awaken sensibilities. At the Gleebooks event in Sydney, Krien traced through some of the observations in each chapter. She spoke very animatedly and passionately about the time she spent in Indonesia visiting the slaughterhouse that ‘processes’ Australian cattle. Sensitive to Australian complicity in this trade she spoke of the paradoxes related to a trade that ships ‘them’ like things and then objects to their treatment as ‘things’ in a different cultural context. She doesn’t propose any particular answers to the questions that her essay raises. What the essay does is present problems (which will be well known to many Animal Studies people) to a new audience in a way that I imagine, I hope, will be effective. It invites a level of speculation and self-reflection largely within the genre of travel writing and as such does not arrive at any particular destination or resolution. It indicates an uneasiness but also a desire to keep going. As such the genre is well chosen for raising the issues within the format of the Quarterly Essay. The essay has been very well received and has helped reignite public debate in animal issues. The topic was covered by Triple J’s HACK; various newspapers; and she has appeared many times on ABC radio. Anna Krien has spoken at the Wheeler Centre, Gleebooks and the University of Melbourne’s Knowing Animals Past and Present reading group. Read the essay and view other reviews on: http://www.quarterlyessay.com/ http://whisperinggums.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/anna-krien-us-and-them-on-the-importance-of- animals-review/ http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/stories/s3466814.htm. 3 Animals Asia Public Forums in Australia June 2012 Dr Jill Robinson MBE, CEO of Animals Asia and internationally acclaimed animal welfare champion will visit Australia & NZ for a series of public forum events in June. The six-date tour schedule will provide audiences in key capital cities with the opportunity to hear Dr Robinson’s first-hand reports regarding the current and unprecedented wave of popular Chinese support for the eradication of bear bile farming. Bear bile farming is the practice of extracting bile from live and highly endangered Asiatic Black Bears (moon bears) for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine. More than 14,000 bears are being kept in cages across Asia for this purpose. “This year we’ve witnessed a rapidly growing wave of opposition to bear bile farming from within the Chinese population itself, largely as a result of the online release of secret footage shot by three independent film makers revealing the shocking practices committed in a number of so-called legal bear farms,” says Dr Robinson. “It’s significant and highly encouraging to note that the push to end the practice is coming from within the country itself and is being strengthened by a growing band of prominent Chinese including well-known lawyers, TV hosts, actors, sportspeople, and animal rights advocates. This enormous support gives us great cause for hope that the Chinese authorities can be convinced to finally shut the industry down.” Some of the key points Dr Robinson will discuss during her tour include: - The vital and ongoing role played by Australian vets and volunteers at the Animals Asia bear sanctuaries in China and Vietnam. - The current level of Chinese media coverage around the bile farming issue, which has equated to over
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