The 2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and Society:
Minding Animals
I am writing to inform you of a momentous event in the study of human nonhuman animal interrelationships. The University of Newcastle and the Society and Animals (Australia) Study Group have just announced their hosting of the 2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and Society. Subtitled Minding Animals, the Conference is bound to be a benchmark event in the study and interpretation of human nonhuman animal interrelationships. It will be held between 13 and 19 July, 2009, at Newcastle in Australia.
The 2009 Minding Animals Conference will bring together a broad range of academic disciplines and representatives from universities, non-government organisations and the community, industry and government from across the planet. Conference delegates will examine the interrelationships between human and nonhuman animals from a cultural, historical, geographical, environmental, moral, legal and political perspective.
Further, the conference will bring together an unheralded number of leading scientists, philosophers and social theorists, academics and community leaders, many committed to environmentalism or animal protection or both, but never having all met at the one event. Our confirmed dinner and plenary speakers alone (alphabetical order, and the number is not yet exhausted) will provide you with an idea of breadth of knowledge and importance of this conference:
Professor Carol Adams
Professor Emeritus Marc Bekoff
Professor J Baird Callicott
Nobel Laureate Professor JM Coetzee
Professor Dale Jamieson
Professor Val Plumwood
Professor Emeritus Tom Regan
Distinguished Professor Bernard Rollin
Dr Andrew Rowan
Professor James Serpell
Professor Peter Singer
Professor Emeritus Michael Soulé
Professor Paul Waldau
Professor Jennifer Wolch
The conference will have six major themes and objectives:
To reassess the relationship between the animal and environmental movements in light of climate change and other jointly-held threats and concerns
To examine how humans identify and represent nonhuman animals in art, literature, music, science, and in the media and on film
How, throughout history, the objectification of nonhuman animals and nature in science and society, religion and philosophy, has led to the abuse of nonhuman animals and how this has since been interpreted and evaluated
To examine how the lives of humans and companion and domesticated nonhuman animals are intertwined, and how science, human and veterinary medicine utilise these important connections
How the study of animals and society can better inform both the scientific study of animals and community activism and advocacy
And how science and community activism and advocacy can inform the study of nonhuman animals and society
An extensive list of subjects is being developed that will be allotted concurrent sessions. These subjects will greatly expand on our conference themes. A tentative list is provided on the conference website. Some of the academic disciplines covered by the conference include:
Conservation biology and biodiversity conservation
Environmental history and history of animals
Animals in religion
Animal liberation, rights and welfare
Environmentalism and political science
Veterinary science
Animal geography
Animals and sociology
Animals and the law
Anthrozoology, zooanthropology and zooarchaeology
Animals and gender studies
Animals in literature, music, and the arts
Media and communications
Ecotourism
Zoo science
Animals and assisted therapies
Animal behaviour, psychology and cognitive ethology
I invite you to log on to our website www.mindinganimals.com where you will be able to complete our 'Expression of Interest in Attending' form.
In the meantime, if you prefer and are interested in receiving further information, please feel free to email me directly at: rod.bennison@newcastle.edu.au or, call me anytime (Australian Eastern Summer Time) on +61-(0)41-491-4040 to discuss the conference.
Thank you and I look forward to receiving your emails and meeting you all in 2009,
Rod
Dr Rod Bennison
Co-convenor
2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and
Society School of Environmental and Life Sciences
University of Newcastle,
University Drive,
Callaghan NSW 2308 AUSTRALIA
Email: rod.bennison@newcastle.edu.au
Phone: +61-41-491-4040
Web: www.mindinganimals.com
Minding Animals
I am writing to inform you of a momentous event in the study of human nonhuman animal interrelationships. The University of Newcastle and the Society and Animals (Australia) Study Group have just announced their hosting of the 2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and Society. Subtitled Minding Animals, the Conference is bound to be a benchmark event in the study and interpretation of human nonhuman animal interrelationships. It will be held between 13 and 19 July, 2009, at Newcastle in Australia.
The 2009 Minding Animals Conference will bring together a broad range of academic disciplines and representatives from universities, non-government organisations and the community, industry and government from across the planet. Conference delegates will examine the interrelationships between human and nonhuman animals from a cultural, historical, geographical, environmental, moral, legal and political perspective.
Further, the conference will bring together an unheralded number of leading scientists, philosophers and social theorists, academics and community leaders, many committed to environmentalism or animal protection or both, but never having all met at the one event. Our confirmed dinner and plenary speakers alone (alphabetical order, and the number is not yet exhausted) will provide you with an idea of breadth of knowledge and importance of this conference:
Professor Carol Adams
Professor Emeritus Marc Bekoff
Professor J Baird Callicott
Nobel Laureate Professor JM Coetzee
Professor Dale Jamieson
Professor Val Plumwood
Professor Emeritus Tom Regan
Distinguished Professor Bernard Rollin
Dr Andrew Rowan
Professor James Serpell
Professor Peter Singer
Professor Emeritus Michael Soulé
Professor Paul Waldau
Professor Jennifer Wolch
The conference will have six major themes and objectives:
To reassess the relationship between the animal and environmental movements in light of climate change and other jointly-held threats and concerns
To examine how humans identify and represent nonhuman animals in art, literature, music, science, and in the media and on film
How, throughout history, the objectification of nonhuman animals and nature in science and society, religion and philosophy, has led to the abuse of nonhuman animals and how this has since been interpreted and evaluated
To examine how the lives of humans and companion and domesticated nonhuman animals are intertwined, and how science, human and veterinary medicine utilise these important connections
How the study of animals and society can better inform both the scientific study of animals and community activism and advocacy
And how science and community activism and advocacy can inform the study of nonhuman animals and society
An extensive list of subjects is being developed that will be allotted concurrent sessions. These subjects will greatly expand on our conference themes. A tentative list is provided on the conference website. Some of the academic disciplines covered by the conference include:
Conservation biology and biodiversity conservation
Environmental history and history of animals
Animals in religion
Animal liberation, rights and welfare
Environmentalism and political science
Veterinary science
Animal geography
Animals and sociology
Animals and the law
Anthrozoology, zooanthropology and zooarchaeology
Animals and gender studies
Animals in literature, music, and the arts
Media and communications
Ecotourism
Zoo science
Animals and assisted therapies
Animal behaviour, psychology and cognitive ethology
I invite you to log on to our website www.mindinganimals.com where you will be able to complete our 'Expression of Interest in Attending' form.
In the meantime, if you prefer and are interested in receiving further information, please feel free to email me directly at: rod.bennison@newcastle.edu.au or, call me anytime (Australian Eastern Summer Time) on +61-(0)41-491-4040 to discuss the conference.
Thank you and I look forward to receiving your emails and meeting you all in 2009,
Rod
Dr Rod Bennison
Co-convenor
2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and
Society School of Environmental and Life Sciences
University of Newcastle,
University Drive,
Callaghan NSW 2308 AUSTRALIA
Email: rod.bennison@newcastle.edu.au
Phone: +61-41-491-4040
Web: www.mindinganimals.com