The 1st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists, titled Worldly Togetherness?, took place on August 7-8, 2020. Dr. Nik Taylor presented the keynote address, titled “An Animal Sociology of interconnecting Oppressions.” You can view Taylor’s talk here.
Over half of the talks at Worldly Togetherness? were presented by women, including:
- Critical Posthuman Reflections on Multispecies Assemblages by Heather Alberro
- The Psychological Cost of Animal Rescue by Stephanie Belland (with Eric Legge)
- Posthuman Pedagogies by Lina Benjelloun (with Jake Sallaway-Costello)
- The Sociology of Disenfranchised Grief Among Vegans by Josephine Browne
- Emancipatory Vegan Sociology by Elizabeth Cherry
- Theorizing Recruitment into Animal Rights Activism by Yasmin Koop Monteiro
- Peppa Pig and Fingerless Fish: Not Seeing the Wood for the Trees by Lynda M. Korimboccus
- Animal Agency through Photography within Animal Sanctuaries by Maria Martelli
- Veganism’s Transformative World-making Potentials by Catherine Oliver
- Human & Nonhuman Relations in Migrant Women’s Post-Divorce Lives by Alexandra Ridgway
- On Challenging Speciesism in Research for Companion Animals by Zoei Sutton
- A Naturalcultural Bestiary of Agencies by Federica Timeto
- A Qualitative Analysis of Older Lesbians’ Inter-Species Community by Briohny Walker & Ruby Grant
- A Survey of American Sociologists by Corey Wrenn
The conference was organized by Corey Wrenn, Zoei Sutton, Gavin J.D. Smith, Rochelle Stevenson, and Sarah Lindsay,
