News

Check this page for:

• Confirmation of major Vegatopia website updates, such as substantial additions to the bibliography, media archive or resources page

• Reports on publications, conference papers and research projects

• Significant media stories on vegan-related issues

• Reports on other significant events in the vegan calendar

Alerts to forthcoming updates and events will appear on the diary page.

Latest News

• Monday June 9th 2008
  Updates to the links page: a new section has been added, specifically on animal testing, incorporating some new resources. Over time we will expand and categorize the rest of the links page in more detail in line with our bibliography keywords.
  

Vegatopia at the Bristol Vegan Fayre

• Many thanks to the fine people at the Bristol Vegan Fayre who helped us with the organization of our Food Survey, to Plamil foods for donating vegan chocolate to help us with our instant raffle, and most of all to everyone who took the time to fill in a questionnaire. Have a look at our Facebook site for more photos.
  We will be replicating the research at the London Vegan Festival on September 7th. Check the Vegatopia news page for information of seminars and publications about the results of the survey in due course.

• Tuesday May 27th 2008
  Vegatopia will be at the Bristol Vegan Fayre this Saturday and Sunday (May 31st & June 1st). Please support our research by coming along and filling in a questionnaire on our Food Survey stall.

• Friday May 16th 2008
  Vegatopia website updates: 219 new references have been added to the bibliography and we have added a keyword on 'feminism'. All existing pdfs have been updated to incorporate the new references. Also added are more entries to the media page, under films, magazine articles, music and online media.

• Monday May 5th 2008
  The first scheduled update to the Vegatopia bibliographies has been slightly delayed due to our workloads – updated pdf documents will now be uploaded at the end of this week, please check back for confirmation on this page.

• Thursday May 1st 2008
  Jasmijn de Boo of the Animals Count party received 1,828 votes (1.12% of the total votes) in the London Assembly elections for the Lambeth and Southwark area. For more information, follow this link: http://www.animalscount.org/elections.html

• Friday April 18th 2008
  Vegatopia website updates: New on the resources page, a pdf of John Sorenson’s paper, ““Doctrine of Demons”: Attacks on Animal Advocacy”, and the abstract for Richard Twine’s BSA paper, “Critical Animal Studies, Posthumanism and the Sociological Imagination - To Describe, Prescribe, or What?” The media archive page has a new section for ‘Online media’, which incorporates most of the material previously listed under ‘miscellaneous’. New links have been added, and there are new newspaper stories available in the media archive. Check the diary for information on forthcoming events by Speak, Animals Count and information on World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week.
  

• Thursday April 10th 2008 (part 2)
  Vegatopia is now on facebook, sign up and start networking with other vegatopians:

• Thursday April 10th 2008
  Vegatopia site updates: downloadable flyer / poster added to the resources page – help us spread the Vegatopia message by sending this on, handing out flyers at events, putting the poster up on noticeboards or however else you can think of! A brief biographical note has also been added to the contact us and about us pages. Additional sites are being added to the links page regularly, please do take a look and support some of the tremendous work being done.

• Thursday April 3rd 2008
  See the resources page for A Tom Regan Potpourri, a pdf of select quotations from the author of The Case For Animal Rights, kindly donated by Tom himself.
  PowerPoint presentations of our papers mentioned under the 30th March entry will not be uploaded for a while. We are keen to populate Vegatopia with the works of others before we add any more of our own work. Instead, abstracts of our (and other) papers have been added. Meanwhile, please contact us directly if you have a particular interest in our own work.

• Sunday March 30th 2008
  Two papers presented at the BSA (British Sociological Association) conference “Social Worlds, Natural Worlds” at the University of Warwick:
  “The language of diet and the suffering of nonhuman animals: promoting veganism through countering a discourse of asceticism” (Matthew Cole & Karen Morgan)
  “The Discursive Representation of Nonhuman Animals in a Culture of Denial” (Karen Morgan & Matthew Cole)
  PowerPoint presentations of these two papers will be posted on the resources page in the next few days. We also hope to upload some more presentations or papers from other vegan academics we met in Warwick soon.

• Tuesday March 25th 2008
  Vegatopia website launched!

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