The Culture & Animals Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor an annual colloquium series with the Animals & Society Institute and the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society Section. The series is dedicated to highlighting research by emerging human–animal relationship scholars. This series also features publication workshops, job talks, and research by established scholars in the field. For videos of all previous colloquia, please click here.
Recent Colloquia
Multi-Species Migrant Family (November 2026)

Vegan Witchcraft (October 2026)
Rats with Wings, America’s Most Wanted Dog: Pigeons, Pit Bulls, and the Mechanisms of Marginalization (October 2026)
The Case for Freeganism (May 2026)
Shaping Empathy: How Speciesism Is Socialized in Family Life (February 2026)
Sanctuaries and the Politics of Refusal (November 2025)
Frances Power Cobbe: From Animal Cruelty to Animal Rights (October 2025)
Considerations in Talking about Animals with Disabilities (March 2025)
Evoking Empathy Through Animal Portraiture (February 2025)
When Animals Die: Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice (January 2025)