And that’s a wrap! Thanks to our amazing committee, presenters, participants and everyone who helps to make this one of my favourite weekends of the year. See you in 2027! #IAVS2026

That wraps up #IAVS2026! What a fantastic and truly enlightening experience this year’s conference has been. Thank you so much to all presenters, attendees, and wonderful committee members who made #IAVS2026 possible. 👏🥳

It’s time for our final session of #IAVS2026, where IAVS co-founders Corey Wrenn and Zoei Sutton will come together to discuss the Rise of Vegan Sociology!

In our final paper of the night Łucja Lange shares their experiences of vegan vigils in Poland - why are some deaths surrounded by rituals and commemoration while others are normalised as necessary and inevitable? #IAVS2026

How do speciesism, sexism and social dominance work together in Central Europe? Andrej Kirbiš explores interlocking oppressions #IAVS2026

Next up Annika explores the representations of nonhuman animals as equal or superior beings in telepathic interspecies communication #IAVS2026

Final paper sessions - Europe and Latin America! Julieta Campos gets us started with her critical, important work bringing together laboratory sociology and critical animal studies to analyse discourses around rats used in scientific testing #IAVS2026

Tiptoeing that treacherous line between correct number of sour patch kids to stay awake and too many to go to sleep after #IAVS2026

A great discussion of the particularities of the Romanian context around vegan sociology and human-animal relations — exactly what we were hoping for with this conference theme! #IAVS2026

Alina S. Rusu shares a framework for teaching interdisciplinary masters programs around human-animal interaction in Romania #IAVS2026

Rimona Afana explores sites of well-meaning captivity: Can sanctuaries and shelters offer transitional/restorative justice mechanisms? (yes! but also need legislative/societal change) #IAVS2026

Multispecies togetherness means to live well together - Irina Frasin advocates for a relational, mutual approach to human-animal relations #IAVS2026

Maria Martelli and Aron Nor explore the problematisation of urban dogs and pigeons under civilising discourses in Romania #IAVS2026

Next up we have a fabulous panel on Romanian vegan sociologies with Maria Martelli, Aron Nor, Irina Frasin, Rimona Afana, & Alina S. Rusu #IAVS2026

Kerry Herbert brings our UK panel to a close with an important discussion of the (re)cycling of ex-racing greyhounds as pets and the consequences of this for nonhuman animals #IAVS2026

Ryan Bogle takes us through international aesthetic trends in plant based restaurants — is it easy to tell when you're in a PB eatery? Moreso in non or newly-western countries evidently! #IAVS2026

Next up Sophie Savage and Louis Gough share their collaborative auto ethnography on navigating everyday life in a non-vegan world #IAVS2026

Kicking off with a UK panel, Corey Wrenn takes us through the links between beards, animality and the maintenance of race, class, gender, species #IAVS2026

Day 2 of #IAVS2026 ! We've got panels from the UK, Europe, Australia and a deep dive into Romanian vegan sociologies (plus us co-founders rounding up the day). Still time to join us and find out what @katestew.art is baking this year www.vegansociology.com/conference

It’s the second day of #IAVS2026!

Our second day is beginning with our ‘UK’ session, starting with IAVS co-founder Corey Wrenn presenting ‘Beards of the World: The Politicization of Facial Hair in the Maintenance of Sex, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Species’