The International Association of Vegan Sociologists is welcoming submissions for individual presentations or panels for their 2025 annual online meeting “Senses & Emotions”, Oct 4-5, 2025.
Call for Paper Deadline: May 31, 2025
The 2025 IAVS annual meeting will showcase research related to veganism, animal rights, and sociological theories of emotions/senses. Participants are invited to consider how emotions and sensory experiences are integral to understanding and challenging nonhuman animal exploitation.
Proposals and queries should be sent to info@vegansociology.com by 31st May 2025. Submission guidelines and further information can be found on the conference webpage: https://www.vegansociology.com/conference/
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
- Nonhuman animals as minded, feeling beings: how are animals’ emotions or sensory experiences minimised or acknowledged in society and/or vegan sociology research?
- Veganism, activism and emotional labour: How do activists navigate the emotions involved in advocating for other animals? What role does emotional labour play in vegan activism?
- Socialisation of emotions & animal exploitation: How are emotional norms or ‘rules’ around nonhuman animals socialised in ways that challenge or support vegan ways of being?
- Sensory experiences and the Body: how can vegan sociology help us to explore human and nonhuman animals’ felt experiences of the social world?
- Vegan Sociological perspectives on particular emotions: e.g. how might explorations of disgust, desire, grief, joy, sadness further our work for nonhuman animals
- Innovative research methods for exploring sensory elements of the multispecies social world: e.g. Emotional/Sensory mapping, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory methods
- Representations of nonhuman animal emotions: ‘happy’ exploited animals, suicide food, attempts to build empathy
- Digital emotions and online vegan communities
- Intersections of species, race, gender, and emotional politics
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