Introduction and welcome

 

Friday, 10:50-11:00 (GMT/UTC)

 

 

Session 1: Morethanhuman communities

 

Friday, 11:00-12:15 (GMT/UTC)

 

Anna Stefani Siettou

PhD Candidate

Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

Governmental and Non-Governmental Organization involvement in the stray companion animal overpopulation management in Greece.

15-min QnA

Sindhoor Pangal

MA (Anthrozoology) student

Exeter University, UK

Has citizen-care of free-living dogs been explored as means for rabies-eradication in India?

15-min QnA

Audra Farrell

MS (Shelter Medicine) student

University of Florida, USA

Humans feeding free-roaming cats without offering other care/services. 

5-min QnA

S. Ramya

M.Ed Scholar

V.O.C.College of Education, Tuticorin, India

Health Hazards of the Human-Nature Relationship.

5-min QnA

S. Rajalakshmi

M.Ed Scholar

V.O.C. College of Education, Thoothukudi

Anticipation of animals as consuming constitutional rights.

5-min QnA

 

Coffee break

 

Session 2: Grief, witnessing, and welfare

 

Friday, 12:25-13:40 (GMT/UTC)

 

Irene Perrett

MA (Anthrozoology) graduate (2022) 

Exeter University, UK

Is witnessing enough? Considering impacts and entanglements when bearing witness with other-than-human animals. 

15-min QnA

Steve Daniels

MA (Anthrozoology) graduate (2022) 

Exeter University, UK

The Management of Grief and Mourning in Zoological Housed Primates: “Are there opportunities for Zoological collections to meet both the needs of grieving non – human primates and those of the visiting public?”

15-min QnA

Ayisha Rushda 

MS graduate (2021) 

Gitam University, India

Understanding Companion Animal Bereavement within the Indian context.

5-min QnA

Natasha Matsaert

MA (Anthrozoology) student 

Exeter University, UK

Remembering ‘Roadkill’: Perspectives on Nonhuman Road Casualties by Ghost Bike Activists

5-min QnA

G. Sujitha

M.Ed Scholar 

V.O.C. College of Education, Thoothukudi

Animal welfare and social media.

5-min QnA

 

Lunch (or dinner or breakfast!) break

 

Session 3: Keynote

 

Friday, 14:15-15:15 (GMT/UTC)

 

Professor Samantha Hurn

Director of Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE)

Director of the Anthrozoology MA and PhD programmes at Exeter University, UK

 

Coffee break

 

Session 4: Animals, knowledge, and politics

 

Friday, 15:20-16:35 (GMT/UTC)

 

Amanda Coate

PhD Candidate 

Stanford University, USA

An Elephant in Dublin: Animals and Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century.

15-min QnA

Victoria Mitchell

MA (Anthrozoology) student 

Exeter University, UK

From Baaa to Ballot – Putting Animals into (local) Politics.

15-min QnA

Max Pospisil

PhD Candidate 

University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Atik across Canada: Cree perspectives of “caribou”.

15-min QnA

 

Coffee break

 

 

Session 5: Ways of doing anthrozoology and the future of the field

 

Friday, 16:50-17:50 (GMT/UTC)

 

A panel discussion on doing anthrozoology (or related) research degrees and applying research outside of academia. Followed by a roundtable discussion on the future of the field (aimed at including early-career voices). 

Come prepared to think about some of these questions:

      What do you think are the most important questions to address in anthrozoological research?

      What advice or guidance would you give/like to receive regarding pursuing a research degree in anthrozoology or a related field?

      Is academia the only way to do meaningful research?

      How would you like the field of anthrozoology to be defined in the future?

 

Coffee break

 

Session 6: Wild animals and wildlife

 

Friday, 18:00-19:10 (GMT/UTC)

 

Oscar Courchaine

MS (Anthrozoology) student 

Canisius College, USA

Ethics of Predation in Programs of Rewilding.

15-min QnA

Jami Reimer

MFA (Fine Arts) student 

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Biologists singing: Speculative bioacoustics, interspecies audibility, and the posthuman choir. 

15-min QnA

Dominique P. Augustin

MS (Anthrozoology) graduate (2022) 

Canisius College, USA

Speciesism in the zoo. 

5-min QnA

Alexander Rhodes

Undergraduate 

Beacon College, USA

The Effects of Tourism on Coral Reefs. 

5-min QnA