Colloque — Animals at Large: Critical Animal Studies Perspectives on Wild, Feral, and Free-Living Animals

« The inaugural biennial meeting of the Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies, Animals at Large: CAS Perspectives on Wild, Feral, and Free-Living Animals, brings together interdisciplinary scholars to interrogate how “wildness” is constructed, governed, resisted, and reimagined across legal, political, ecological, and cultural domains. Over two days of keynotes, panels, and collaborative discussions, participants will examine territorial rights, ferality, sanctuary politics, animal labour, conservation discourse, and interspecies intimacy, foregrounding the ethical and political stakes of living with animals beyond domestication.

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, the Québec Observatory of Animal Law, and the Interuniversity Research Centre in Ethics (CRÉ), this meeting aims to deepen critical engagement with the power structures that shape the lives of wild and liminal animals while fostering dialogue across theory, activism, and practice. »