OXFORD CENTRE FOR In partnership with the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society and the Humane Education Trust, South Africa Sixth Annual Oxford Summer2019 School on Animal Ethics 2019

Humane Education: Increasing Sensitivity to Animals and Humans St Stephen’s House University of Oxford JOURNAL OF ANIMAL

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About the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

fall 2018 volume 8 The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (www. The heart of thenumber work 2 of the Centre is our oxfordanimalethics.com) is the premier centre international Fellowship of over 100 academics

JAnE 8_2 covers.indd 1 6/4/18 8:58 AM for animal ethics worldwide. Our Centre drawn from the humanities and the sciences. aims to break new ground for the animals by The Fellows are working in all fields of pioneering ethical perspectives on animals academic scholarship to advance perspectives through academic research, teaching, and on animal ethics. publication. We want to put ethical concern for animals on the intellectual agenda, and The Centre publishes the Journal of Animal contribute to an enlightened public debate Ethics in partnership with the University of about animals. We believe that the rational Illinois Press, and has established a book series case for animals is frequently understated on animal ethics with Palgrave Macmillan within academia and misrepresented in comprising more than twenty books. Welcome to the the media. Summer School

A warm welcome to our sixth Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Society, the Humane Education Trust, the Pettus Crowe Summer School. Foundation, and Vanessa Clarke. We are truly grateful to our sponsors without which this exciting Summer School This year, we are exploring Humane Education, asking would not be possible. the question: How can we increase sensitivity to animals and humans? I look forward to personally welcoming you to our Summer School. We are delighted to have speakers from all over the world representing a wide array of disciplines, including educationalists, ethicists, historians, lawyers, social scientists, and humane society representatives. We hope the dialogue over the next few days will help inspire and implement more humane education across the globe. Director of the Annual This Summer School is only possible because of our wonderful sponsors. We would like to thank Susan Oxford Animal Ethics and Dan Boggio, the Ontario SPCA and Humane Summer School

Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Susan is the Board Chair of UNICEF USA, Southwest Region and they are founders of UNICEF’s Dan and Susan Boggio Fund for children. Susan is a graduate of UNC-Charlotte and has done post-graduate studies in comparative religion and philosophy. She has been named a Woman of Distinction, one of Houston’s Most Influential Women, Animals Champion for feeding homebound seniors and their animals, Heart About St Stephen’s The House’s principal founder was Edward King, then Regius Professor of of Gold Volunteer by Citizens for Animal Protection. Pastoral Theology in the University of Oxford, and later Bishop of Lincoln. Susan is a founding member of the Houston 20, House, Oxford Associated with King were William Bright, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical dedicated to fighting child trafficking in the Houston History, Edward Talbot, Warden of Keble College and subsequently Bishop St Stephen’s House is an Anglican area. Susan and Dan together have been named a of Winchester, Edwin Palmer, Professor of Latin and Archdeacon of Oxford, theological college and a Permanent Texas Children’s Hospital Champion for Children, Edward Woolcoombe, a Fellow of Balliol, and John Wordsworth, Chaplain Private Hall of the University Houston PetSet Soiree’ 2018 Honorees, recipients of Brasenose College. Among the founding group was Henry Scott Holland, of Oxford. It offers formation, of the Melcher Humanitarian Award and UNICEF then senior fellow at Christ Church, and one of the leading figures in the education and training for a variety Helenka Pantaleoni Global Humanitarian award. development of the Christian social teaching. of qualifications and ministries Susan rescues animals and is currently fostering about 30 dogs. www.ssho.ox.ac.uk For the House’s first years, it was situated near the centre of Oxford, where the new Bodleian Library now stands. From 1919, the House had a site About Susan and Dan and Susan hope their passion for making the in Norham Gardens, near to the University Parks. In 1980 it moved to world a better place for children, animals and others St Stephen’s House the current site, formerly the mother-house of the Society of St John the Dan Boggio through education, protection, and providing basic life was founded in 1876 Evangelist (also known as the Cowley Fathers), founded by Richard needs, here and around the world inspires others to do Susan and Dan Boggio are both strong supporters for Meux Benson. the same. Susan will be speaking about her work with by members of the helping the world’s most vulnerable. They have chosen rescue animals during the Summer School. Tractarian movement to advocate for many worthwhile local and international causes related to relieving the suffering and improving and has stood, ever the quality of life for both humans since, in the catholic and animals. tradition of the Church of England.

Photo Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / The Ontario SPCA and Humane Humane Education About The Humane Disturbed by the continuing mistreatment of animals despite all of the above, the trust embarked on a pilot Society is privileged to be The complex topic of humane education is approached Education Trust project to test the impact on 6 – 10 year-old children Ontario’s charity in several ways at the Ontario SPCA and Humane of learning the core Five Freedoms for Animals. The Society: initial success of this project has resulted in The Latham since 1873. The Humane Education Trust is an NGO that leads Foundation in the USA sponsoring a wider application of • Humane Education Campaigns, which are aimed the field in humane education in South Africa. Over the project for the purpose of academic research. This is at educating the public and our communities through The Society and its network of animal welfare three decades the trust has slowly gained its sizeable currently underway communities facilitate and provide for province-wide targeted awareness campaigns. footprint with the inclusion of more than 30 resources in leadership on matters relating to the prevention of the Department of Basic Education’s official catalogue It is the hope of The Humane Education Trust that the • Humane Education Programs, which are and the promotion of animal well- of curriculum support materials for students aged 6 - Five Freedoms for Animals will be incorporated as an predominately geared towards youth to encourage and being. In our role as a charity, we provide a variety 18. More recently the trust has extended its focus both essential part of early learning and that this knowledge empower them to be a more informed, respectful and of mission-based programs and resources, including to early childhood development, and to the teachers will become second nature as the students mature. compassionate generation. Programming includes, community-based sheltering, animal wellness services, themselves. Teachers can now take our online course but is not limited to, children’s camps, extracurricular provincial animal transfers, shelter health & wellness, Human Ethics and , endorsed by the More information about the work of the Humane programming and our elementary school high-volume spay/neuter services, animal rescue, animal South African Council of Educators, as part of their Education Trust can be found at caringclassrooms.co.za. curriculum, AnimalSmart™. advocacy, Indigenous partnership programs and humane annual obligation to achieve continuing professional . development points. education. • Ontario SPCA Educational Conference The Annual Ontario SPCA Educational Conference is one of Canada’s must-attend animal well-being leadership events. The Conference is a multi-day event attended by industry leaders, decision makers, volunteers, front line staff and animal lovers alike from across Canada, the United States and beyond!

Working together we can make a difference in the lives of countless animals in need.

Learn more at ontariospca.ca

Photo Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / Farm Sanctuary Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School Humane Education: Increasing Sensitivity to Animals and Humans 21-24 July 2019

Programme

Sunday 21st July

4.00-5.00pm: Registration in the Summer School Office

5.00pm: Wine Reception in the Common Room

Welcome by Professor and Clair Linzey

6.00pm: Welcome Buffet Meal Dining Room

8.00pm: Short Films by the Ontario SPCA Exploring One Welfare and Humane Education

Followed by a question and answer with representatives of the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society

Showing in the Couratin Room Photo Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / Farm Sanctuary Monday 22 July Couratin Room Hope Room 7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall 8am: Anglican Mass in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of the Church 11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 8.30-9.00am: Registration in the Summer School Office Susan Kayne Dr Julie O’Connor Founder and CEO Vice President Unbridled Thoroughbred Foundation Humane Education Committee, New York

Couratin Room Hope Room Understanding the inherent value of horses as teachers in Humane education motivates student learners: Qualitative research results humane education

Chair: Professor Kay Peggs Chair: David Rosengard 12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Professor Kay Peggs Elin Roberts Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Kingston University Chief Marketing Officer 9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Louise van der Merwe Serrin Rutledge-Prior Better Nature Foods

Managing Trustee MPhil candidate Professor Barry Smart Social media as a form of humane education The Humane Education Trust, South Africa Australian National University Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth

The Five Freedoms for Animals is a basic learning requirement for all Ambivalent interspecies relationships: Exploring the attitudes of university Concerning critical humane education young people, along with their 123’s and ABC’s researchers to nonhuman animal research subjects

9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Amanda McKibbon Dr Amina Grunewald 12.50 - 1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall Senior Director, Affiliate and Community Outreach Instructor Ontario SPCA and Humane Society Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany Chair: Dr Natalie Thomas Chair: Professor Barry Smart Liz Davis Superintendent of Education Jo-Anne McArthur’s photo-journalism as narratives of empathy York Region District School Board and resistance 1.50-3.50 1.50-2.30 Dr Magdalena Smrdelj Roundtable: Visualising Humane Education Laura Chepner Chief Veterinary Officer Director Ontario SPCA and Humane Society Professor J. Keri Cronin Primary Veducation Brock University, Canada Alyse Patterson Primary veducation: A teacher’s perspective on the lack of humane educa- Educator, York Region District School Board Professor Michael Gilmour tion in primary schools Providence University College, Manitoba

Building a bright future: SPCA’s, humane societies and educators Professor Linda Johnson partnering for the well-being of animals and children University of Michigan-Flint

Hadas Marcus 2.30-3.10 Tel Aviv University, Israel Dr B. K. Sharma Associate Professor in Zoology 10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Seth RL Saharia Govt. PG College, Kaladera, India Common Room New North London Synagogue Curtailing the use of animals in Indian universities

Chair: Professor Kendra Coulter Chair: Professor Samantha Hurn

3.10-3.50 10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Sidney Blankenship Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Melissa Logan Associate Fellow Senior Rabbi and Author Director of Education Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics New North London Synagogue Alberta SPCA, Canada An ethical perspective on animals and diet in the New Testament On faithfulness, betrayal and our relationship with animals Inspiring compassion in Alberta, Canada classrooms Tuesday 23th July 3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room 7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall 8am: Anglican Mass in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of the Church

Couratin Room Hope Room Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: : Professor Kai Horsthemke Chair: Robyn Hederman Chair: Professor Kurt Remele Chair: Dr Oliver Langworthy

4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Professor Linda Johnson The Revd Matthew J. Webber 9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Visiting Professor in Art History Masters Candidate Professor Kai Horsthemke Felix Taylor University of Michigan - Flint Colorado State University Associate Professor Doctoral Candidate KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford Humane education in art and animal ethics in western art history A new binary: Creator and created Animal rights education “A lost dog with troubled eyes”: Sentimentality and anti- in early twentieth-century British literature

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Professor Sarah M. Bexell Dr Rebecca Langworthy 9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Director, Institute for Human-Animal Connection Independent scholar Susan Boggio Professor Andrew Westoll University of Denver The human as animal: Scottish fantasy and the importance of Philanthropist and Community Volunteer Assistant Professor, Creative Writing An emerging research and training agenda in humane education imagination for humane empathy Houston, Texas University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada Humane education and animal rescue in Texas Meet the chimpanzees of Fauna Sanctuary

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Professor Michael Gilmour Dr Nicole Pallotta Associate Professor of New Testament and English Literature Academic Outreach Manager Providence University College, Manitoba Animal Legal Defense Fund 10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Richard Adams’s The plague dogs and novel approaches to humane educa- Be kind, seek justice: as a new frontier in humane education tion Chair: Professor J. Keri Cronin Chair: Hadas Marcus

10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Dr A. W. H. Bates Wolf Gordon Clifton Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anatomical Pathology Executive Director 6.30pm: Gin Reception in the Common Room University College, London Animal People, Inc.

“Open thy mouth for the dumb”: Animal protagonists, heroes and narrators Reclaiming space for empathy through humane wilderness education in English literature

7pm: Buffet Dinner in the Dining Hall 11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 Professor Boris Bakota Professor Jeff Johnson Professor of Law Associate Professor of Philosophy Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia Lillie McAdams 8.30pm: Screening of The Kindness Project Professor Lidija Bakota Assistant Professor of Education Undergraduate Followed by a question and answer with Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia Ahna Neil Louise van der Merwe, The Humane Education Trust Educational role of Croatian children’s magazines Undergraduate St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN Showing in the Couratin Room Reason and emotions in teaching animal ethics Couratin Room Hope Room Couratin Room Hope Room

12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Chair: Dr A. W. H. Bates Chair: Susan Kayne Dr Juliet P. Dukes Franziska Lauber Senior Scientific Officer – Tertiary Education Independent Artist RSPCA Gümmenen, Switzerland 4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Dr Miriam Cué Rio Michelle St John Animal welfare and ethics in doctoral training programmes Artwork and animal ethics: On the back of the pig Research Fellow Independent scholar French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development, IRD

From using to caring: Can mindfulness support a more ethical behaviour Inhumane education: The killing policy in farm schools towards animals? 12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Chair: Professor Linda Johnson Chair: Professor Kathy Hessler Dr Eleanor Burt Dr Christina Nellist Senior Lecturer, School of Management Founder member and Editor University of St Andrews, Scotland Pan-Orthodox Concern for Animals 1.50-2.30 1.50-2.30 Dr Natalie Thomas Dr Margarita Carretero González The day-to-day silencings of humane education within an Providing a template for humane education in Christian seminary courses Faculty Senior Lecturer academic institution: Experiences and observations and a brief outline of the recent Halki Summit III Institute for Humane Education University of Granada, Spain

Zoe Weil and the Institute for Humane Education: Key principles for Narrative empathy through interspecies transcreation: Towards a definition 5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 animal ethics and a preliminary taxonomy Robyn Hederman Lauriane Piette Fellow Assistant Editor, Philosophy Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Palgrave Macmillan Publishers

The kindness-to-animals ethic in Antebellum America Publishing in animal ethics as humane education 2.30-3.10 2.30-3.10 Professor Samantha Hurn Hadas Marcus Associate Professor in Anthropology Instructor of English for Environmental Studies University of Exeter Tel Aviv University 6.55pm: Summer School Official Photograph in Moberly Garden Unintended activism? Assessing the impact a taught postgraduate degree in A picture is worth a thousand birds: Instilling humane values through has had on students’ ethical engagement with other animals visual culture

7.00pm: Champagne Reception in the Cloisters

3.10-3.50 3.10-3.50 Giacomo Vagni Dr Simon Brooman Doctoral Candidate in Sociology Senior Lecturer in Animal Law Nuffield College, University of Oxford Liverpool John Moores University 7.30pm: Gala Dinner

Appetite for deconstruction: The impact of popular culture artefacts on The student voice in humane education: Perceptions of an undergraduate College grace and welcome by meat consumption animal law course The Revd Canon Dr Robin Ward, Principal of St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford

Gala Dinner speakers: The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey Susan Boggio

Awards presented by the Lord Mayor of Oxford, Cllr Craig Simmons 3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room Couratin Room Hope Room

Wednesday 24th July 12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Pei F. Su Dr Miriam Sampson 7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall Founder and Executive Director Independent scholar 8am: Anglican Mass in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of the Church ACTAsia, China Compassion and character: Animal welfare in fictional narratives of moral -im Couratin Room Hope Room Caring for life education in China provement by 19th-century English women writers

Chair: Professor Michael Gilmour Chair: Tarah Daly 12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Chair: Professor Sarah M. Bexell Chair: The Revd Matthew J. Webber Professor J. Keri Cronin Stephanie O’Flynn Associate Professor Doctoral Candidate Brock University, Canada National University of Ireland, Galway 1.50-3.50 1.50-2.30 Roundtable: Implementing Humane Education Dr Roxanne Sperry “Educate them artistically”: The art of humane education The doggie in the window: Dog breeding and humane education Founder Dr Juliet P. Dukes The International Association of Veterinary Chaplains RSPCA, Great Britain 9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Animal theology provides fertile ground for planting humane education in the church Professor Kurt Remele David Rosengard Melissa Logan Associate Professor of Ethics and Catholic Social Thought Staff Attorney Alberta SPCA, Canada 2.30-3.10 University of Graz, Austria Animal Legal Defense Fund Isabel Barber Amanda McKibbon Should humane education be oriented towards empathy or efficiency? From theory into practice: Animal law pedagogy and practitioner training Undergraduate Ontario SPCA and Humane Society, Canada The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

Pei F. Su “Habits of mercy”: RSPCA humane education in 19th century Britain ACTAsia, China 10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room Louise van der Merwe 3.10-3.50 The Humane Education Trust, South Africa John Drew Chair: Stephanie O’Flynn Chair: Professor Jeff Johnson Doctoral Candidate Western University, Canada

Wilbur, Napoleon, and Esther: Learning empathy with three not-so-little pigs 10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Caroline Griffin Dr Oliver B. Langworthy Co-Founder, Show Your Soft Side Associate Lecturer in Theology University of St. Andrews 3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room Professor Sarah M. Bexell Director, Institute for Human-Animal Connection Animals and education in the Desert Fathers Chair: Dr Simon Brooman Chair: Dr Rebecca Langworthy

Julia Senecal Research Associate Institute for Human-Animal Connection 4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Brynn Weissner, Research Associate Tarah Daly Professor Kathy Hessler Institute for Human-Animal Connection Volunteer Clinical Professor and Director, Animal Law Clinic My Lovely Horse Rescue Lewis and Clark Law School University of Denver Stories from an animal rescue: Changing behaviour through indirect Animal law clinic Crafting an effective humane education program education

11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Wei Ling Low Melissa Logan Director Director of Education, Alberta SPCA, Canada Professor Shannon Johnstone Dr Idan Breier Keep C.A.T.S., Singapore Professor of Art Lecturer Dr Donna Crawford Meredith College, Raleigh, NC Bar-Ilan University, Israel Is the Singapore education system ready to introduce humane education? Consultant, Alberta SPCA, Canada Empathy in art A long time before Aesop: The Sumerian’s animals fables and their Using picture books to foster empathy in elementary classrooms educational messages Couratin Room Hope Room

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Professor Kendra Coulter Rebecca Rose Stanton Department Chair, Labour Studies Doctoral Candidate Brock University, Canada Northumbria University

Humane education and humane jobs: The work and employment The secret: The misrepresentation of factory farming dimensions of teaching interspecies solidarity

6.20 Closing Remarks by Professor Andrew Linzey 6.20 Closing Remarks by Professor Clair Linzey

6.30pm: Summer School Ends

“Our Centre aims to break new ground for the animals by pioneering ethical perspectives on animals through academic research, teaching, and publication.”

Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Jo-Anne McArthur / Farm Sanctuary Jo-Anne McArthur Franziska Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning With Dr Keri Cronin, McArthur co-founded Lauber photographer, author, and sought-after speaker. The Unbound Project, a photographic project that Through her long-term body of work, We Animals, celebrates women at the forefront of animal she has been documenting our complex relationship advocacy, both contemporary and historical. with animals around the globe. Since 1998, her work has taken her to almost sixty countries. In 2019, Many of the photographs of animals in this she founded We Animals Media, an international programme and on the pocket come from Jo-Anne’s agency dedicated to telling the stories of animals. We Animals Archive. We are very grateful to Jo- Anne for lending us her poignant images. McArthur’s books, We Animals (2014) and Captive (2017), were published by Lantern Books. McArthur was the subject of the critically acclaimed 2013 documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine, which followed her as she documented the plight of abused and exploited animals and advocated for their rights as sentient beings.

About the Exhibition in are interconnected and can be also the Cloister Gallery read as a mind map – she combines by Franziska Lauber different modes of intrusion to cause ephemeral impressions and surprise The artistic work of Swiss artist the viewer with a perspective that Franziska Lauber is the result of an eludes him/her. ongoing research on the modes of perception and representation of non- Each work can be purchased and can human animals in the be taken directly at the end of the visual imaginary. Summer School. 40% of the income Franziska goes to support the work of the Oxford Lauber In this exhibition at the Cloister Gallery, Centre for Animal Ethics. which is on during the conference, she purposely mixes different Franziska Lauber gained her Master perspectives (the hunter, the observer of Arts in Public Spheres HES-SO or the admirer of the “animal world”). at the édhéa Sierre, Switzerland, Through drawings, photo collages, in 2016. Learn more about her at Solar prints and text fragments - which franziskalauber.com Photo Credit: Jo-Anne Jo-Anne McArthur / Farm Sanctuary McArthur Special Guests of Honour

Lady Mayoress of Oxford, Elise Benjamin

Susan Boggio

Carolyn Crowder

The Humane Education Trust

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society

Anne Rees

Lord Mayor of Oxford, Cllr Craig Simmons

Michelle St John

Special thanks for our ambassadors

Isabel Barber

Laure Boissat

Talitha Bromwich

Cristina Conde Tkatchenko

Alastair Harden

Natalie Hill

Anne Merrill

Emile Okada

Elin Roberts

Felix Taylor

Tobias Thornes

Robyn Trigg

Photo Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Honour Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

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