Calling all #IAVS2025 presenters!🎙️
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Such a pleasure to spend this weekend (re)connecting, thinking, and collaborating at #IAVS2025 ! It was fantastic to learn from so many insightful sessions and hear reflections on my presentation. Huge thanks to the organisers for creating such a warm and inclusive space 💚
And that's a wrap on #IAVS2025! Thanks to presenters, participants & our fabulous committee for making this such a wonderful weekend. Interested in finding out more about us? Find us here for more info or to find out about the 2026 committee positions currently open for EOIs www.vegansociology.com
Final paper of #IAVS2025! Federica Amici shares a great paper on justifying meat consumption across development and cultural communities
Incredible work by Faltmann, navigating the heartbreaking terrain of building up relationships with animals through ethnographic research while knowing they are soon to be killed #IAVS2025
Last session of the conference! Kicking off with Nora Katharina Faltmann discussing emotional 'boundary labour' - relations between humans and 'animals-as-good' #IAVS2025
We're past midnight Australia time, aka the time when I start trying to calculate the correct number of sour patch kids to keep me awake long enough for the conference but not so long that I never sleep again #IAVS2025
We now have a lovely creative interlude by Julia Archer 'the vegan and the carnivore: an interspecies love story' #IAVS2025
Federica Peluso and Giulia Regoli explore the governance and marginalisation of psychiatrised human and non-human animals. Denial of agency and bodily control seem to be points of commonality #IAVS2025
Is the use of Graphic imagery an effective street activism technique? Niamh Nelson-Owens takes us through a useful conceptual framework for figuring out #IAVS2025
Giorgia Pagliuca talks us through a fascinating oral history project with sanctuary founders, workers and volunteers - participants acknowledge the limits of freedom while reclaiming dignity for nonhuman animals co-living in sanctuaries #IAVS2025
For those invested in the bakeoff tension, @katestew.art has produced some spectacular bagels, I have humbly added yet another cookbook to my book hoard in hopes the results are 100% recipe and do not rely on talent... #IAVS2025
We have a historian in the house! Who we will be claiming as an honorary sociologist because Sydney Newell's reflections on rats and redemption in early Bermuda (with some bonus rat histories thrown in in question time) were excellent! #IAVS2025
Emily Major's possum research from Aotearoa never fails to strike a chord - compassionate education now! #IAVS2025
Back from the break, Rita Mancini delivers a fascinating overview of Yak and Nak entanglements with humans in Nepal #IAVS2025
The biscuit situation has escalated - we now have a vegan sociology bakeoff. Brownies have been presented, bagels are boiling, shall we make this an official feature of future conferences? #IAVS2025
Next up is a panel on Emotions in Australian Human-Animal Relations. Davita Coronel, Alex Hill and I talk about how the social construction of emotions shapes our relations with flying foxes, insects and animal companions #IAVS2025
Olatz Aranceta brings new insights from the COMPASS project (I love this project!). How do pressure groups hinder the work of compassion groups working for nonhuman animals in Spain? In quite a lot of ways, but hopefully learning about them will help us to work around them #IAVS2025
We kick off with IAVS co-founder Corey Wrenn exploring the world of vegan witchcraft as sites of social change #IAVS2025
A tupperware of homemade bagels and a cooling wire of peanut butter cookies.
Day 2 of #IAVS2025 is also baking day. The magic of online conferences.
#IAVS2025 Day 2 is underway! Such a great collection of papers today, this truly is my favourite weekend of the year
To finish our day, Gillian Walters talks to us about healing the wounded activist, how do activists keep going? #IAVS2025
Michael Briscoe shares fascinating data on large language models and animal issues - how does AI feel about going vegan? surprisingly positive! #IAVS2025
Łucja Lange presents vegan sociological perspectives on grief and moral injury - grief circles for vegans destabilise anthropocentrism and foster recognition of interspecies solidarity #IAVS2025
Final session of day 1! Dalia Zein delivers an important and timely overview of intersectional veganism in the post-2019 Lebanese political landscape #IAVS2025
Finishing the session with Alice Poma and Tommaso Gravante's prefigurative emotional culture to challenge nonhuman animal exploitation - lovely to have this optimistic, future-focussed thinking! #IAVS2025
Alex Sainsbury blew us away with a brilliant presentation on intersections between nonhuman animals and plurisexual individuals #IAVS2025
Second to last session of the day! we kick off with Kadri Aavik's work on emotion and affect in men's activism #IAVS2025
Maria Martelli delivers some beautiful poetry to take us into the break. Check out her other creative works at justwondering.io #IAVS2025
Next up Jane McElligott takes us through the heartbreaking case of Happy the elephant at the Bronx zoo - who demonstrates personhood in so many ways and yet is denied the chance to leave solitary confinement for sanctuary life #IAVS2025
