Society, Politics, Animals & Materiality

Just this week McGill-Queens University Press released the brilliant book, Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada, by Stephanie Rutherford (Associate Professor in the Trent School of the Environment). The book is a fascinating account of wolves’ changing positions within settler-colonial national imaginaries in Canada – it will be of great interest … More June 8 book launch! Stephanie Rutherford’s Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin

We’re excited to announce the continuation of last fall’s fantastic Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World, a collaboration between SPAM, the Colonial, Racial, Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE) working group and the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG) at Concordia. Please join us for a lecture in the series by Neel … More The Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series continues! Featuring Neel Ahuja, March 8

This fall SPAM is delighted to team up with the Colonial, Racial, Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE) working group and the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG) at Concordia to host the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World. Speakers include Beck Pearse and Dinesh Wadiwel, who gave a fantastic talk in … More SPAM’s full fall lecture series