MCLC: Animal Cultural Studies--cfp

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Animal Cultural Studies–cfp
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for participants for its upcoming graduate student workshop “Environmental Challenges in Contemporary Asian Societies: Animal Cultural Studies.”  
This workshop, the second in a two-part series led by Prof. Chia-ju Chang, is designed to introduce graduate students to the growing fields of animal cultural studies and environmental humanities. Building on issues of waste discussed in the first workshop, students will investigate another challenge posed by modernity in the Asia Pacific:  animal suffering in China, Taiwan, and India. According to Prof. Chang, in order to build a sustainable society, students should understand that the animal body is not a commodity but an issue of political, ethical, and even religious concerns.
Topics covered in this workshop will include stray animals' lives in animal shelters, underground animal trading networks, transnational animal activism, exotic animals as food (i.e., shark fin soup), etc.  To facilitate discussion, participants will reference photographic series and installation artworks as well as documentary films such as Three Flowers (2011, China), My Fancy High Heels (2011, Taiwan), Twelve Nights (Taiwan, 2013), The Plastic Cow (2012, India), and The Cove (2009, USA).
The workshop will be led by USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies Kiriyama Professor, Chia-ju Chang (Brooklyn College-City University of New York). Her first book, The Global Imagination of the Ecological Communities: Western and Chinese Ecocritical Praxis (In Chinese) (Jiangsu University Press, 2013), won the 2013 Bureau of Jiangsu Province Journalism and Publication Book Award (Social Science division).
Advance registration is required.  Space is limited.  Registration is free of charge.
To Apply:
Interested graduate students are welcome to apply to participate in the workshop.
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 4:00-6:00 pm
Place: University of San Francisco (location TBA)
Interested graduate students should send an email to mdale3 at usfca.edu (subject line: Environmental Challenges Workshop) with the following information:
Name
University affiliation
Year in program
Review of applications will begin Monday, March 14 and continue until all spaces are filled.
A small number of travel grants ($150 max) will be available to assist participants traveling to USF from outside of the San Francisco Bay Area.
If applying for a travel grant, in addition to the above information, please include a CV and a statement about how this will workshop complement your studies.
Melissa S. Dale <mdale3 at usfca.edu>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on March 9, 2016
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