Critical Animal Studies Reading Group: First Session on Kinship-Making

The Critical Animal Studies Reading Group will hold its first session on kinship-making on Wednesday, 28 October 2026.

Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2026
Online event
Email envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk to register.

For further details and to register, please visit the Critical Animal Studies Reading Group website.

We will be discussing the following texts:

• Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Chapters 14 to 16, ‘Surrender’/ ‘Go Deep’ / ‘Stay Black’. Chico: AK Press, 2017.
• Erev, Stephanie. 2018. ‘What Is It Like to Become a Bat? Heterogeneities in an Age of Extinction.’ Environmental Humanities 10 (1): 129–49.
• Kerwillain, Shadrach and Gregg Mitman, ‘On Extraction, Care, and Interspecies Alliances.’ Isis, vol. 117, no. 1, March 2026, pp. 154-161.

If you are interested in joining, send us an e-mail and we will be pleased to send you the joining instructions:

• dorothee.boulanger@humanities.ox.ac.uk;
• andrzej-pierce-snowden.stuart-thompson@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de
• envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk