VLS webinar
This virtual workshop offers a venue for international research scholars with an interest in Critical Vegan Studies - specifically in the fields of literature, film and media, and theory - to meet and exchange. The workshop features both work-in-progress sessions and guided readings of key theoretical texts.
Details of each meeting, including the Zoom link and any preliminary readings, are shared via a mailing list. To join the mailing list, please send a request to Professor Deborah Madsen (deborah.madsen@unige.ch), including your contact details and a brief academic biography.
SCHEDULE
6 January 2026 @ 19h CET (via Zoom)
Vegan Pedagogies
An open discussion, led by Arvind Thomas, UCLA.
9 December 2025 @ 19h CET (via Zoom)
Deborah Madsen, University of Geneva.
14 November 2025 @ 19h CET (via Zoom)
Sune Borkfelt, Aarhus University.
7 October 2025 @ 19h CET (via Zoom)
An open discussion of Critical Vegan methodologies, led by members of the proposed EAAS (2026) conference session: Sune Borkfelt, Aïcha Bouchelaghem, Deborah Madsen, Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, Yagmur Su Kolsal, and Burak Sezer.
5 September 2025 @ 18h CET (via Zoom)
Continuing the "collective review" of the monograph, Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literarure from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century by Theophilus Savvas (Cambridge UP, 2024), coordinated by Dan Abitz.
4. Vegetarianism as Religion (Yagmur Su Kolsal, University of Münster)
5. Vegetarianism in the Fiction of Women's Liberation (Anna James, Franklin College): SLIDES
6. Animal Abstinence in the Anthropocene (Bryn Skibo, Vancouver Island University): SLIDES
7. 'Pity the meat!': Ideology, Metaphor, Violence (Aïcha Bouchelaghem, University of Geneva): SLIDES
5. Vegetarianism in the Fiction of Women's Liberation (Anna James, Franklin College): SLIDES
6. Animal Abstinence in the Anthropocene (Bryn Skibo, Vancouver Island University): SLIDES
7. 'Pity the meat!': Ideology, Metaphor, Violence (Aïcha Bouchelaghem, University of Geneva): SLIDES
Thursday 3 July 2025 @ 20h CET (via Zoom)
A "collective review" of the monograph, Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literarure from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century by Theophilus Savvas (Cambridge UP, 2024), coordinated by Dan Abitz.
1. "Everybody eating everyone else" (Aïcha Bouchelaghem, University of Geneva): SLIDES
2. Pythagoreans or, Vegetarians before "Vegetarianism" (Arvind Thomas, UCLA)
3. Vegetarianism and the Utopian Novel (Dan Abitz, Emory University): SLIDES
2. Pythagoreans or, Vegetarians before "Vegetarianism" (Arvind Thomas, UCLA)
3. Vegetarianism and the Utopian Novel (Dan Abitz, Emory University): SLIDES
Monday 12 May 2025 @ 20h CET (via Zoom)
Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, UCLA.
Last updated on December 17th, 2025
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