3rd MINDING ANIMALS CONFERENCE JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY (JNU), NEW DELHI, 13 TO 20 JANUARY, 2015 FINAL PROGRAMME
Presenters and Moderators please note:
1. Except where previously requested by delegates, presentation slots may need to have been moved by the organisers and may appear different from the Final Programme published on the website. Please consult the schedule located in the Conference Programme upon arrival at the Conference for your presentation time.
2. Please note that presenters have to ensure the following timings for presentations, allowing adequate time for questions from the floor and smooth transition of sessions. Plenary and Invited Talks – 45 min. presentation and 15 min. discussion (Q&A); Submitted parallel talks – 20 min. presentation and 10 min. discussion (Q&A)
3. Co-author names are not listed in the programme, although they may be presenting at the conference in place of, or with the main author. For all co-authors, delegates are advised to consult the Conference Abstracts Book provided at the conference. Use of the term et al is provided where there is more than one author of an abstract.
4. Moderator notes will be available at all front desks in lecture halls, along with Time Sheets (5, 3 and 1 minute Left). Moderators will also be requested to provide public notices if and when required, such as Lecture Exit Points, and for announcing and collecting Scoring Sheets for presentations to be considered for Conference Awards.
5. Note that moderator slots may also change. Moderators are requested to refer to this final programme. Day 1 Tuesday, 13 January, 2015
15:00 - 22:00 - Concurrent activities
Pre-Conference Interfaith Programme and Multi-Faith Prayer Service at Baha’i House of Registration and Welcome Worship, Lotus Temple 12:00 Registration Desk opens at the Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 13:30 Shuttle Service departs from JNU for delegates travelling to Pre-Conference Interfaith Programme and Multi-Faith Prayer Service at Baha’i House of Worship, Lotus Temple 14:30 Participants assemble at Information Centre, Baha’i House of Worship, Lotus Temple, for Interfaith Programme 15:00 – Interfaith Programme at the Lotus Temple represented by several faiths, including Baha'i, 16:40 Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Hinduism and Christian faiths: 15:00 – 15:10: Welcome by Mr. Shatrughun Jiwnani, Director – Public Information, Baha’i Office of Public Affairs, Baha’i House of Worship, New Delhi 15:10 – 15:20: Speech by Acharya Dr. Ravindra Nagar, Hinduism, Laxmi Narayan Temple, New Delhi 15:20 – 15:30: Speech by Fr. Dr. MD Thomas, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Director, Institute of Harmony and Peace Studies, Dwarka, New Delhi 15:30 – 15:40: Speech by Dr. Amrit Kaur Basra, Sikhism, Reader, Delhi University 15:40 – 15:50: Speech by Dr. Hanif Mohd. Khan Shastri, Islam, Lecturer, Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya 15:50 – 16:00: Speech by Acharya Kastur Muniji, Jainism, Jain Monk, Acharya Muni Sushil Sushil Ashram, New Delhi 16:00 - 16:10: Speech by Mr. Shatrughun Jiwnani, Director – Public Information, Baha’i Office of Public Affairs, Baha’i House of Worship, New Delhi 16:10 – 16:20: Speech by Rabbi Ezekiel I. Malekar, Judaism, Secretary, Judah Hyam Synagogue, New Delhi 16:30 – 16:40: Closing speech by Minding Animals International Incorporated representative. 16:40 Delegates escorted to Baha’i House of Worship Prayer Hall for Service 17:00 – Multi-Faith Prayer Service by Baha’i House of Worship (Lotus Temple) 17:20 17:20 Conference Delegates transported back to Conventions Centre, JNU 19.00 – Icebreaker Night (Cocktails and Snacks) (Convention Centre 22.00 Portico) Welcome by Dr. Rakesh Batabyal , Member Organising Committee MAC3, and Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Day 2 Wednesday, 14 January, 2015
8:00 - 9:00 Registration continues at the Conventions Centre, JNU.
9:00 - 10:00 Inaugural Ceremony (Auditorium 2) Master of Ceremonies, Radhika Bhagat, Wildlife Trust of India.
9.00 - 9.10 Welcome of Dignitaries and Lighting the Lamp.
9.10 - 9.20 Welcome Address, Prof. Sudhir Kumar Sopory, Member Steering Committee MAC3, and Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
9.20 - 9.30 Welcome Address, Dr. Rod Bennison, Member Steering Committee MAC3, and Founder and Chairperson, Minding Animals International Incorporated.
9.30 - 9.40 Welcome Note, Mr. Vivek Menon, Chair, Convenor MAC3, Executive Director and CEO, Wildlife Trust of India.
9.40 – 10:00 Inaugural Address, Shri. Prakash Javadekar, the Hon. Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India.
10:00 – 10:05 Vote of Thanks, Dr. Rakesh Batabyal , Member Organising Committee MAC3, and Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
10:05 – 10:40 Group Photograph followed by morning Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico).
10:40 – 10:45 Briefing of delegates on arrangements facilities and programme (Auditorium 2).
10:45 – 10:50 Welcome of Keynote Speaker, Mr. Vivek Menon , Convener MAC3, and CEO, Wildlife Trust of India (Auditorium 2).
10:50 – 11:00 Launch of “Tigers of North Kheri” authored by Mr. Ashok Kumar, Founder and Chairman Emeritus (Auditorium 2).
11:00 - 11:45 Keynote Speech: Smt. Maneka Gandhi , the Hon. Minister of Women and Child Development Government of India (Auditorium 2).
11:45 - 12:45 Plenary Session 1: Jill Robinson MBE 42: Ending Bear Bile Farming in China: a solution based approach (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Lisa Kemmerer.
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch (Convention Centre Portico)
14:00 - 16:00 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Protecting the Animals Animals and Religion Thinking About Eating Animal Women and Animals Animals and Art I Seminar Series I (Auditorium 2) Animals (Lecture Hall Experimentation (Lecture Hall 3) (Committee Hall) (Archive Room) Moderated by 1) Moderated by Brett (Lecture Hall 2) Moderated by Fiona Moderated by Jessica Moderated by Arpan Mahalakshmi R. Mizelle Moderated by Nicolas Probyn-Rapsey Ullrich Sharma Delon 14:00 Christine Townend- for Deborah Nadal- Why is Krishna Pathak- Why Kathrin Herrmann- Lisa Kemmerer- John Sheckter- The Art Help in Suffering Kamadhenu on the Vegetarianism: An Animal Women and Animals— of John Wolseley: A Animal Shelter 278 street? The religious Argument for Animals’ experimentation: What’s That About? Postcolonial and cultural reasons of Right to Life 228 openness, public 308 Ornithology 53 straying in India 229 engagement and public concerns 51 14:30 Rosemary Austen and Candace Paula Arcari- “[It] Siobhan O’ Sullivan et Andrea Petitt- "Now Yvette Watt- Artists Steve Garlick- for Laughinghouse- makes me feel happy al- Animal Ethics that I have cattle, I am and Animals: a survey Possumwood Wildlife Decolonization and to be eating it”: Committees, a real woman!": 41 Inc. 287 Intersectionality Capturing complexity Regulation and Empowerment Between Animals and in constructions and Informed Decision strategies among the Religion: A Womanist practices of ethical and Making 26 cowgirls of the Kalahari Response About sustainable meat 106 91 Theological Deficiency, Feminist Theory and Aesthetics 181 15:00 Clementien Pauws- for Hamid Ahmad et al - Alma Massaro et al - Adam See- The Ethics Elena Cohen- "I'd Rene Marqez- Positive Karuna Society for Ritual Halal Slaughter Labelling meat as of Animal Rather Go Naked": Reinforcement Dog Animals and Nature 46 and Animal Welfare 12 “stunned” and “not Experimentation: from PETA, Feminisms and Training as stunned” 135 John Dewey to the Sex Work 145 Postcolonial, an Artist's Present 71 Perspective 213
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
16:00 – 18:00 Documentaries
Documentaries (Auditorium 2) Documentaries (Lecture Hall 1)
16:00 A Lion Called Christian Introduced by Ace Bourke, a film celebrating the life Animals and the Buddha Introduced by Kim Stallwood and friendship of Christian, Ace Bourke and Tony Rendall. Ace will be the dinner speaker on the final day of the conference. 17:00 Cages of Shame Introduced by Jill Robinson International Fund for Animal Welfare films New York State Tiger Seizure , Ivory Coast Elephant Rescue and Sharpening the Ax (A Film on Enforcement Training) Introduced by Cindy Milburn
18:00 – 18:30 Earth Energy Yoga Session with Charlotte Cressey for those interested (Auditorium 2) – please bring a towel!
After session: Dinner (at own leisure) Day 3 Thursday, 15 January, 2015
8:30 – 9:30 Plenary Session 2 – Marti Kheel Memorial Lecture – Professor Lori Gruen 169: Entangled Empathy (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (2014 Feminist Animal Studies Fellow at ASI-WAS established in honour of Marti Kheel)
9:30 – 10:00 Morning Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
10:00 – 12:00 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Women and Animals Thinking About Animal Law and Public Animals and Culture Animals and Religion Animals and Literature (Archive Room) Animals (Auditorium 2) Policy (Lecture Hall 1) (Lecture Hall 2) (Lecture Hall 3) (Committee Hall) Moderated by Lisa Moderated by Jeff Moderated by Arif Moderated by Amrit Moderated by Hamid Moderated by Kemmerer Sebo Yusof Menon Ahmad Krishnendu Mondal 10:00 Charlotte Cressey - Will Kymlicka et al - Angeline Siegel - Ana Cristina Ramirez - Sangmu Thendup - Joan Gordon - The Charlotte Perkins Farm Sanctuaries: Practicing the New Art Sidesaddle spins. Animals in Early Transformative Animal Gilman: Progenitor of From Refuge to of Science: Seeing the Escaramuzas charras Buddhism 294 Tales of Kij Johnson 54 Ecofeminism 134 Intentional whole through the lens and their horses 217 Community? 177 of mind-body medicine 146 10:30 Erin Maclver - What's Rod Bennison - Raquel Garcia Hermida Harry Wels et al - So Susan Crane - How Subhalakhsmi Gooptu - in a Name?': Ecological Inclusion - et al - Think Positive: Zoopolis! Explorations Francis of Assisi Fable and Relationships between an ethic and way of life regulating the sale and in creating human Changed Christian Representation: Women and Cattle in 253 keeping of exotic animal societies 14 Attitudes about Eating Animal worlds of Northern Botswana 79 animals as pets 40 Meat 20 'Beastly Tales from Here and There' and 'The Fabulous Feminist' 85 11:00 Jessica Ison - Eat the Morten Tonnessen - Kelly Dhru - Exploring Erika Cudworth - On Asmaa El Maaroufi - Anshu Gagal - Animals meat: queer normality What is animal the gap between legal Ambivalence and Animal Slaughter in the have ‘no and animal sterility 198 agency? 232 rights and duties in the Resistance: Carnism Name of Allah – spokesperson’: A context of the laws and Diet in Multi- pathways concerning Critical Study of preventing cruelty to species Households 33 animal ethics in Islam Atwood’s Surfacing Animals: case study of 285 and Ghosh’s The India 267 Hungry Tide 185 11:30 Daniel de Almeida Lauren Gazzola - Ricardo Fajardo - The Joseph Lancia - Integral Niharika Sankrityayan - Joshua Jordan - Poetry Pinto Kirjner - Words Mean Nothing - Animal Protection theory of Visual Representation in Human-Animal Masculinity and Action is Everything Index 102 consciousness, of Power and Style: The Examples of Violence: a Culture of 277 psychoanalytic thought Authority: Varaha in Henri Michaux and Predation 11 and their implications Chalukya Art, Religion Francis Ponge 187 for interspecies and History 286 relationships 83 12:00 – 13:00 Plenary Session 3 – Professor Lisa Kemmerer 170: Religions, Agnostics, Atheists and Animal Advocacy (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Kim Stallwood
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (Convention Centre Portico)
14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talks – Session 1
Parveen Goel 300 – Concepts, Philosophy and Anindya Sinha 306 - Scio Ergo Sum : Mahalakshmi R. 334 – Understanding the Principles of Animal Welfare (Lecture Hall 1) Experientially Acquired Cognitive Knowledge of the Goddesses within the Nature-Culture Paradigm Introduced and Moderated by Clive Phillips Self in a Nonhuman Primate (Lecture Hall 2) (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced and Moderated by Introduced and Moderated by Mayukh Chatterjee Vivek Menon
15:00 – 16:00 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Animal Law and Public Documentaries Wildlife Welfare and Sentience and Well- Relational Ethics Animals and Religion Policy: Trends (Archive (Auditorium 2) Conservation Science being (Lecture Hall 2) (Lecture Hall 3) (Committee Hall) Room) Moderated by Introduced by (Lecture Hall 1) Moderated by Jeff Moderated by Nicolas Moderated by NVK Jagdish Kishwan Clementien Pauws and Moderated by Sebo Delon Ashraf Eliza Muirhead Abhishek Narayanan 15:00 Nuria Almiron - The Plastic Cow Aniruddha Majumder - Penelope Coulter - Beril Sözmen - A K Merchant - Animal Lobbying against Introduced by Long term monitoring Early life histories, Relations and moral Welfare – an interfaith compassion. The Clementien Pauws of two big-cats - the trauma and obligations towards perspective with political economy tiger ( Panthera tigris ) psychological other animals 49 specific focus on the behind discourses and and leopard ( Panthera wellbeing in captive Baha’i Faith 337 policies on nonhumans pardus ) - in a tropical gorillas 325 66 deciduous forest, Central India 317 15:30 Carol McKenna - Operation Kimberley Shikha Shrivastava et al Gemma Cardner et al - Hector Yan - Human- Umesh Kumar Khute - Applying Maslow’s Miinimbi Introduced - Fishes of the Flyash Learn more about the animal ethics Forest and wilderness: hierarchy of human by Eliza Muirhead Discharge Pond 292 science of animal according to the Animals in folk myths needs to identify sentience 96 relational approach: an 246 improvements for exposition and a animal protection critique 18 legislation and to explain human barriers to ending animal abuse 188
16:00 – 16:30 Afternoon Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
16:30 – 18:30 Panel Session (Auditorium 2)
Animals Studies Forum: State and Future of the Field Well into its third decade, the field of Animal Studies faces basic questions regarding its coherence, scope, relation to the academy, relation to animal advocacy, and the future. A panel of informal representatives of the major approaches to the field will discuss these and related issues, assisted by audience participation. Introduced by Rod Bennison; Moderated by Kim Stallwood Ken Shapiro - Human Animal Studies Lori Gruen - Feminist Studies Colin Salter- Critical Animal Studies Joe Lancia - Anthrozoology Donald Broom - Animal Welfare Sandra Swart - Cultural Studies Discussion
18:30 – 20:00 Documentaries
Documentaries (Auditorium 2) Documentaries (Lecture Hall 1)
18:00 A Shawl to Die For Introduced by Amrit Menon The Homecoming Introduced by Vivek Menon 18:30 A Dance to Forget? Introduced by Amrit menon Operation Kimberley Miinimbi Introduced by Eliza Muirhead
18:30 – 19:00 Earth Energy Yoga Session with Charlotte Cressey for those interested (Auditorium 2) – please bring a towel!
After session: Dinner (at own leisure) Day 4 Friday, 16 January, 2015
8:30 – 9:30 Plenary Session 4: Professor Will Kymlicka 176: Rethinking Membership and Participation in an Inclusive Democracy: cognitive disability, children, animals (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Kim Stallwood
9:30 – 10:00 Morning Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
10:00 – 11:30 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Documentaries Animals and Culture Wildlife Welfare and The Zoo and Animal Film, Music, (Auditorium 2) (Lecture Hall 1) Conservation Science Confinement (Lecture Performance Introduced by various Moderated by Uma (Lecture Hall 2) Hall 3) Moderated by (Committee Hall) people Athale Moderated by Will Kymlicka Moderated by Tapajit Krishnendu Mondal Mondal 10:00 Highway Wilding NVK Ashraf - The Abhishek Narayanan - Shubhobroto Ghosh - Martin Ullrich - Music Introduced by Rod cultural, religious and Slithering Serpents: Zoos : preserves or and the zoon politikon: Bennison mythological drivers Strayed or Synurbised ! prisons? 220 A history of human and influencing the 323 music for non-human What’s for Dinner? depiction of the lion listeners and its Introduced by Kim and tiger in Aryan and political implications Stallwood Dravidian literary 125 traditions 222 10:30 Veg or No Veg? India Hanneke J. Nijland et al Ajay Bijoor et al - Joseph Reginald et al - Yuan-Chih Lung - Beast at the Crossroads - Farmed Animals: Friends turning foes: ‘Born to Fly’ Campaign- Film-in 1930’s Introduced by Kim Cultural and Personal community a destiny towards the Shanghai : with Shun Stallwood Clusters of Reasoning interventions to welfare of parakeets Pao’s Screen Section as and and Behaviour 68 manage population of 293 its center 64 Donkey Talk free-ranging dogs in Introduced by Susi Spiti, Himachal Arnott Pradesh 50 11:00 and Stephen F. Eisenman - Baiju Raj Moonamkutti Shekhar Niraj et al - A Ilda Teresa Castro - Staying Alive - donkeys, Capitalist Crisis and Veetil et al - Seasonal focus on wild animals Animal in the Movies: drought and women’s Relational Identity - A management of a as pets in India 221 a tool for the change? work in Mwingi, Kenya New Path Toward rescue facility and 275 ; includes the short Introduced by Susi Animal Liberation 137 enrichment utilisation film Ecceidade Arnott by the rehabilitated and rescued sloth bears LEGS: the key steps (Melursus ursinus ) in (Livestock Emergency captivity, Agra, Uttar Guidelines and Pradesh, India 183 Standards) Introduced by Susi Arnott 11:30 – 12:30 Plenary Session 5: Mahesh Rangarajan 304: Living with Large Wild Animals: historical perspectives on conflict and cohabitation in India (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Vivek Menon
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Convention Centre Portico)
14:00 – 15:00 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Animals and Culture Animals and Art II Animals and the Wildlife Welfare and Elephants I (Lecture Considering Meat (Archive Room) (Auditorium 2) Humanities (Lecture Conservation Science Hall 3) Moderated by (Committee Hall 3) Moderated by Amrit Moderated by Yvette Hall 1) Moderated by (Lecture Hall 2) Vivek Menon Moderated by Paola Menon Watt Nicolas Delon Moderated by Alice Fossatti Hovorka 14:00 Simon Coghlan - Jessica Ullrich - How to Rod Bennison - Kelly Somers - Of Culls Nishant Srinivasaiah - Brett Mizelle - Recognising Explain Pictures to a Nonhuman Animals in and Kills: what do Of Elephants and Men: Contesting and Nonhuman Morality 73 live Animal? Animals the European Early badgers and sharks My Conversations with Transforming the as Art Audience 30 Modern Period and have in common 224 J.K. Dobi 234 Making of Meat in Enlightenment: rights, Antebellum America duties, abuses, and a 166 proto-inclusive worldview 255 14:30 Andrew Woodhall - Hector Yan - A Rich Rainer Ebert - The Chandrima Home e t al Andrew Mclean - A Sune Borkfelt - Reading Taking Nonhuman Conception of the wrongness of killing - Commensal in Humane Approach to Slaughter: Perspectives Seriously: Surface': On Feng animals 97 Conflict: Livestock Captive Elephant Concealment, The Importance of Zikai's 'Paintings to depredation by free- Training 289 Empathy, and Literary Non-Anthropocentrism Protect Life' 17 ranging dogs and its Abattoirs 162 for Nonhuman Animals implications for large 103 carnivore conservation in a fragile ecosystem 163
15:00 - 16:00 Invited Talks – Session 2
Donald Broom 57 - Concepts of Sentience in Hansen T Prem 321 - Animal Welfare in Disasters Heather Bacon 303 - One Health, One Welfare: relation to Humans and other Animal Welfare (Lecture Hall 2) Introduced and Moderated by Kim strengthening the role of the veterinarian in India (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and Moderated by Clive Stallwood (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced and Moderated by Phillips N.V.K. Ashraf
16:00 – 16:30 Afternoon Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
16:30 – 18:00 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Women and Animals Workshop 1 Animals Animals and the Legal Standing (Lecture Animals and Education Animals and Religion (Archive Room) and Philosophy Humanities (Lecture Hall 2) Moderated by (Lecture Hall 3) (Committee Hall) Moderated by Erika (Auditorium 2) Led by Hall 1) Moderated by Carlos Federico Ramos Moderated by Tara Moderated by Lisa Cudworth Will Kymlicka and Jeff Rishi Kumar de Jesus Gandhi Kemmerer Sebo 16:30 Lucy Berglund - A workshop with an Andre Krebber - Paola Fossatti - Karin Dinker - Moral Neha Singh - The Machines and vessels: open-ended discussion Picturing the Nether Animals as property Landscape in Relation Animal Attendants of challenging the denial without objectives, but Life: Maria Merian’s and their legal to Animals in Swedish Siva and Parvati 262 of mind and inferiority allowing people to Art of Entomology and protection ‘mankind- Primary Schools 288 of the body in non- explore topics of joint Science’s Troubles in interest shaped’ 87 human animals and interest. Notes will be Grasping the Animal women 205 taken and provided to 100 17:00 Susi Arnott et al - the relevant Minding Priyanka Nirupam - Christine Townend - Sy Woon - Speciesism Ravina Meena - Donkeys, drought and Animals Study Circle. Human Ecology in Towards an and Ethical Pashupati- Shiva as the women's work; a case- This workshop will Panchatantra: Understanding of the Considerations lord of animals 243 study from Mwingi, explore animals and Hybridity and violence of the war Regarding Animal Use Kenya 182 philosophy. Knowledge 264 waged on animals 60 in Veterinary Education 207 17:30 Jessica Walker - Do Colin Salter - Whales, Danielle Duffield - Cats Muria Roberts - A Stela Mary Varghese - males and females Whaling and Animal in the Courtroom: The model for Serpent Uncoiling: differ in their Nationalism 107 Enforcement of Animal implementing Unraveling the Nagas perceptions of whether Welfare Law in New multispecies education of the Jatakas 230 animals can experience Zealand and Strategies - case study in grief and other for Reform 151 Indonesia 245 emotions? et al 37
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Gala Dinner and Drinks (at the Garden of Five Senses, New Delhi)
19:30 – 20:00 Dinner Speaker: Kim Stallwood , Executive Director Minding Animals International Incorporated, Introduced by Rod Bennison
20:00 – 22:00 Popular music
Day 5 Saturday, 17 January, 2015
Day at Leisure for Delegates
Day 6 Sunday, 18 January, 2015
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session 6: Professor Clive Phillips 122: The Animal Trade (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Rod Bennison
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
10:30 – 12:00 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Panel (Auditorium 2) Animals and Culture Women and Animals Elephants II (Lecture Animals and Culture Introduced by Rod (Lecture Hall 1) (Lecture Hall 2) Hall 3) Moderated by (Committee Hall) Bennison Moderated by Erica Moderated by Erika Vivek Menon Moderated by Tara Fudge Cudworth Gandhi 10:30 Siobhan O’Sullivan Angeline Siegel - Suchitra Gadad - Allison Mayberry - Leonardo Caffo et al - Christine Townend Fleshing Out the Culture and Traditional Social dimensions of Food as social object: Yvette Watt Unspoken: How Beliefs that Influence human-elephant ontology, ethics and Naty Guerrero Diaz - scientists describe the Community and conflict: A case study art 171 The past, present and intersubjective the Welfare of their of Botswana's Boteti future of animal moments with animal Donkeys 259 region 99 activism in Australia participants and its relationship with scientific behavior 63 11:00 Sandra Swart - Monkey Lara Drew - Embodied Ramkumar Elizabeth Allgood et al Wars: the Politics of Learning Processes in Kalyanasundaram - - Beyond GDP: True Primates in South Animal Activism 111 People’s Attitude Wellbeing for Animals Africa 15 Towards Elephant and People 290 Conservation: insights from one of India’s highest human elephant conflict regions 324 11:30 Peter Chen - Animal Jessica Walker - Spare Karani Bithoo et al - Protection Policy in Tikanga Māori: Using Cobra and My Cultural Australia 31 animal cadavers for Prestige 268 teaching emergency animal euthanasia in New Zealand 38
12:00 – 13:00 Invited Talks – Session 3
Vinay Srivastava 329 – Jainism and Animals Tara Gandhi 276 - Mythical Creatures in Traditional Cindy Milburn 301 - Combatting the collapse of (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and Moderated by South Asian Art (Lecture Hall 2) Introduced and compassion (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced and Rakesh Batabyal Moderated by Yvette Watt Moderated by Vivek Menon
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (Convention Centre Portico)
14:00 – 15:30 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Animals and Culture Documentaries Protecting the Animals Wildlife Welfare and Animals and the Animals and the (Archive Room) (Auditorium 2) Seminar Series II Conservation Science Humanities (Lecture Humanities Moderated by Tapjit Introduced by Sailesh (Lecture Hall 1) (Lecture Hall 2) Hall 3) Moderated by (Committee Hall) Bhattacharya Rao Moderated by Arpan Moderated by Rishi Upasana Ganguly Moderated by Sharma Kumar Krishnendu Mondal 14:00 Anu Pande - Cowspiracy Introduced Nuggehalli Jayasimha - Amrit Menon et al - Of Mihailis Diamantis - Kristin Armstrong - Appropriating Animals by Sailesh Rao for Humane Society Hornbills and Humans: Animals Minding Us: Oma The ontology of in Literature: the International India 316 taking the middle Ethical Implications 59 sheep herding: Sentimental versus the ground to conserving socialisation and status Rational Approach 118 cultures and wildlife of being in past 310 societies 36 14:30 Otto Latva - When the Cindy Milburn - for the Geraldine Jain- The Fiona Probyn-Rapsey - Simon Coghlan - The Giant Squid Revealed International Fund for Living Free Campaign Morbid Thinking: Five Dignity of Animals 74 Itself – Reactions to Animal Welfare 331 172 ways to kill a dingo 108 Record Numbers of Giant Squids Found Near Newfoundland Between 1870–1881 129 15:00 Hanna Wirman - Vivek Menon - for the Spare Stephen Hobden et al - Asmaa El Maaroufi - Uncomfortable Wildlife Trust of India The Posthuman Way of Animals as a Source for resemblance in online 330 War 32 Organ Transplantation animal-technology – ethics of videos 273 xenotransplantation. A Muslim Viewpoint 284
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
16:00 – 17:00 Invited Talks – Session 4
Lisa Kemmerer 309 - Nooz - Ending Zoo Jayantha Jayawardene 328 - Animals and Culture Nuggehalli Jayasimha for the Humane Society Exploitation (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and (Lecture Hall 2) Introduced and Moderated by International 319 - Welfare of Intensively Confined Moderated by Rod Bennison Rakesh Batabyal Farm Animals raised for Eggs, Meat and Dairy (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced and Moderated by Kim Stallwood
17:00 – 18:30 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Animals and Culture Animals and Culture A Special Session for Animal Law and Public Animals and Religion Animals and the (Archive Room) (Auditorium 2) Spanish Speakers Policy (Lecture Hall 2) (Lecture Hall 3) Humanities Moderated by Moderated by Cindy (Lecture Hall 1) Moderated by Jagdish Moderated by Sneha (Committee Hall) Abhishek Narayanan Milburn Moderated by Ana Kishwan Das Moderated by Alice Cristina Ramirez Hovorka 17:00 Thomas Robert - Barbara Slee - Cultural Brenda Yesenia Olalde Morten Tonnessen - Reiko Ohnuma - An Lauren van Patter - Darwinian Ethology shifts and the welfare Vázquez - Animal’s Mentions of animals in Elephant Good to Feral Cats and the and Deep Ecology 105 of wild animals - the Law: "When men Norwegian political Think: The Buddha in Nature of Belonging 88 case of trade respect others animals, party programs 231 Parileyyaka Forest 52 restrictive measures as there will respect a means to defend among men" 120 public morality and protect commercially hunted seals 313 17:30 Fabiola Leyton - James Myers - Animal Jaime Vieyra - Towards Tarunya Shankar - Deepak Yadav - Kausik Banerjee et al - Factory Farming , Conversations 168 a multi-species culture Time to Raise the Bar: Religious Importance Leonine tale: recovery Global Bioethics and 216 Animal Law and Public of a Canine: An Enquiry and future of the Public Policies: New Policy 241 into Mahabharata 203 Asiatic lion in India 212 Challenges 191 18:00 Charolotte Cressey - Christine Lloyd - Sing a Luis Lopez - Becoming Helen Proctor et al - Virendra Singh Bithoo - Peter Singleton - The From Separation to song of animals a animal: indiscernible Wiggling ears and Animals: Symbol of whipping of race Wholeness: Embodied pocket full of rights space in Martha emotional states; what Gods and Goddesses horses in New South Love as the Antidote to 124 Pacheco's painting 82 do ear postures tell us identity in Dilwara Jain Wales Australia 238 Disembodied Logic 270 about the emotions of temple 265 dairy cows? 127
After session: Dinner (at own leisure) Day 7 Monday, 19 January, 2015
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session 7: Professor Raman Sukumar 318: Gajatame and Ganesha: the sacred elephant of Asia (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Vivek Menon
10:00 -10:30 Morning Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
10:30 - 12:30 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Regional Contexts II Workshop 2 Women Animals and Culture Protecting the Animals Canines (Lecture Hall Wildlife Welfare and (Archive Room) and Animals (Lecture Hall 1) Seminar Series III 3) Moderated by Conservation Science Moderated by (Auditorium 2) Led by Moderated by Muria (Lecture Hall 2) Abhishek Narayanan (Committee Hall) Aniruddha Majumder Lisa Kemmerer and Roberts Moderated by Jeff Moderated by Lori Gruen Sebo Krishnendu Mondal 10:30 Felix Eikelback - Anti- A workshop with an Maki Eguchi Ken Shapiro - for Carol McKenna - Namrata Anirudh - Cruelty Legislation in open-ended discussion Rashamen, a Woman Animals and Society Working dog breed Sleeping patterns and Colonial India: Civilizing without objectives, but with a Smell of Beast: Institute 150 standards, hunt dog social interactions in Mission and Beyond allowing people to Gendered training and the captive slow lorises 116 explore topics of joint Representation of perpetuation of animal (Nycticebus spp.) under interest. Notes will be Sheep in Modern baiting 189 rehabilitation: taken and provided to Japanese Literature assessing proximity the relevant Minding 123 and sleeping site use as Animals Study Circle. an aspect of sociality This workshop will for welfare and explore animals, conservation 154 11:00 Alexandra McEwan - A women, gender and Grazyna Witkowska - Susan Eirich - for Michele Merritt - Dogs Steve Garlick - Views of Critique of Australia’s feminism. It will also Familiar human-animal Earthfire Institute - and Dualisms: What the environment: Animal Protection consider the ethic of relationships as a path Seeing Wildlife with the Humanities Can Rational epistemology Framework Adopting care. towards transforming New Eyes: Wild Learn from Canine and relational wildlife Pierre Bourdieu’s human perceptions Animals as Individual Cognition 144 knowledge systems 10 Notion of ‘Field’ 153 and actions 161 Beings 70 11:30 Arif Fahmi Md Yusof - Li Jianjun - Confucian Norma Alvares and Alwin Devaraj - Dan Perry - Cats and The role of Malay perspective on Varda Mehrotra - for Community Canines Iguanas 260 custom in the early relationship between the Federation of and Rabies 252 development of laws human and animals Indian Animal relating to animals in 155 Protection Malaysia 196 Organisations - Building a Movement For Animal Protection: The Experience from India 335 12:00 Spare Deke Weaver - The Chaitanya Koduri - for Lisa Warden - Geraldine Jain - Unreliable Bestiary: An People for the Ethical Dogopolis? On liberty, Botulism- Can we Ark of Stories and Treatment of Animals captivity, intervention paralyse the paralyser? Performances 55 India - Fighting Climate and canine citizenship 158 Change With Vegan among India’s free- Foods in Our National roaming dog Climate Change Policy community 130 332
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Convention Centre Portico)
13:30 – 14:30 Invited Talks – Session 5
Kim Stallwood 244 - Topsy, An Elephant We Must Princess Auguste Marie Philippa von Bayern of MK Ranjitsinh 312 - Conservation Ethos, A Legacy Never Forget (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and Munich 305 – Feathered apes: convergent evolution of the Indian Republic (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced Moderated by Rod Bennison of intelligence in crows and primates (Lecture Hall 2) and Moderated by Tara Gandhi Introduced and Moderated by Vivek Menon
14:30 - 16:00 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Workshop 3 Animals Elephants III (Lecture Wildlife Welfare and Animals and Culture Animals and Culture and Activism Hall 1) Moderated by Conservation Science (Lecture Hall 3) (Committee Hall) (Auditorium 2) Led by Vivek Menon (Lecture Hall 2) Moderated by Moderated by Sy Kim Stallwood and Moderated by Alice Upasana Ganguly Woon Arpan Sharma Hovorka 14:30 A workshop with an Helena Telkanranta et Steve Garlick et al - Gonzalo Villanueva Ramesh Kumar open-ended discussion al - Facilitating changes Psychological Peter Singer and ‘the Perumal - Compassion without objectives, but in public policy on extinction in regional Bible’ of the Animal for the Community and allowing people to training and populations of Movement 44 its Change in Behaviour explore topics of joint management of Australian kangaroos Brings Significant interest. Notes will be captive elephants: 21 Change to Donkey taken and provided to experiences from the Welfare in the Brick the relevant Minding Nepal programme of Kilns in Mehsana, India Animals Study Circle. Elephant Experts 110 257 15:00 This workshop will ask Susan Curry - Empathy Valli-Laurente Fraser- Hongsheng Wang - Kelsi Nagy - the question: What can for the Elephants: Celin et al - Farmer- Horse and Chinese Understanding India learn from animal Animal Sounds and African Wild Dog Civilization 48 contemporary cattle rights campaigns in Sympathy in Greco- Relations in the welfare in India: gods, other countries and Roman Culture and Kalahari, Botswana 81 scavengers and hybrid- vice versa? Today 104 beasts 214
15:30 Sreedhar Mayukh Chatterjee et Palasree Krittania - Jessica Walker et al - Vijayakrishnan - Blind al - A Many Splendored Animals and Culture: A Behavioural responses Men and the Elephant: World: insights into the Constitutional Law of dogs and cats to the unravelling the cultural life of a primate of Perspective 29 loss of an animal ecology of a complex least concern, the companion – owner relationship between Bonnet Macaque reports 39 two most intelligent (Macaca radiata ) from species 194 long term studies 327
16:00 – 16:30 Afternoon Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
16:30 – 18:30 Panel Sessions
Panel: The Green Scare (Auditorium 2) Panel: Wildlife Conservation and ICAS Oceania Roundtable Discussion: Panel: Buddhist and Himalayan Animal Introduced and Moderated by Lori Animal Studies (Committee Hall) Particularities and Peculiarities of the Studies (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced Gruen Introduced and Moderated by Animal Other in Oceania -- Roundtable and Moderated by Catherine Mayukh Chatterjee Discussion 197 (Lecture Hall 1) Schuetze Introduced and Moderated by Jessica Ison Lauren Gazzola Sindhu Radhakrishna Jessica Ison Catherine Schuetze 283 Elena Cohen Dale Jamieson Colin Salter Diki Palmu Sherpa 141 Jeff Sebo TR Shankar Raman Lara Drew Geoffrey Barstow 84 Discussion Maan Barua Discussion Arvind Sharma 195 Discussion Discussion
18:30 – 19:00 Earth Energy Yoga Session with Charlotte Cressey for those interested (Auditorium 2) – please bring a towel!
After session: Dinner (at own leisure) Day 8 Tuesday, 20 January, 2015
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Session 8: Professor Erica Fudge 160: Farmyard Choreographies in Early Modern England (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Sandra Swart
10:00 –10:30 Morning Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
10:30– 12:30 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Animals and Culture Documentaries Animals and Culture Workshop 4 Animals, Animals and the Animals and the (Archive Room) (Auditorium 2) (Lecture Hall 1) Sentience, the Law Humanities (Lecture Humanities Moderated by Gonzalo Introduced by Rod Moderated by and Public Policy Hall 3) Moderated by (Committee Hall) Villanueva Bennison Aniruddha Majumder (Lecture Hall 2) Led by Morten Tonnessen Moderated by Krishna Ricardo Fajardo and Pathak Elena Cohen 10:30 Roberto Marchesini - Saving Luna Martha Geiger - Animal A workshop with an Sophie Greger - Mind Guo Peng - Against the Animal Epiphany - Introduced by Rod Bodies and open-ended discussion the gap! The need to Denial of Animal Culture as a Revelation Bennison Performativity: without objectives, but combine animal Language 86 56 Exploring the Lives of allowing people to activism and animal Donkeys in Botswana explore topics of joint rights theory 133 80 interest. Notes will be 11:00 Iris Bergmann - Kelly Somers - We too taken and provided to Heta Lähdesmäki - Markus Vinnari - Thoroughbred racing are animals: John the relevant Minding Wolf agency. Problem Reframing and the sustainability Gray’s anti-humanism Animals Study Circle. wolves in the late 20th sustainability to of welfare concepts 225 This workshop will century Finland 128 include non-human 206 explore animals, animals and plants 67 11:30 Spare Camilla Eriksson - sentience, the law and Nicolas Delon - The X- Susan Rustic - Farmer-cow-wolf public policy. Phi Companion to Transforming Human interactions in Sweden: Animal Ethics 114 Identity: Encounters in Emotional ties and the Classroom through animal imaginaries 199 Animal Eyes 115
12:00 - 13:00 Invited Talks – Session 6
Dale Jamieson 315 – Is Animals Studies Good for Erach Bharucha et al 307 – Ethnobiological Sunanda Madhumbhandara 333- The Significance Animals? (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Knowledge: a trigger in modern conservation of Ahimsa and Animal Welfare in Buddhism Moderated by Lori Gruen education (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and (Lecture Hall 2) Introduced and Moderated by Moderated by Vivek Menon Rakesh Batabyal 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (Convention Centre Portico)
14:00 – 15:00 Plenary Session 8: Professor Dietmar Todt 311: Listen and Learn: experience-based demands for an approach to animal welfare (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Vivek Menon
15:00 – 16:30 Submitted Talks (30 Minutes each)
Wildlife Welfare and Workshop 5 Animals, Animals and the Animal and the Animals and Religion Workshop 6 Animals Conservation Science Art and Aesthetics Humanities (Lecture Humanities (Lecture (Lecture Hall 3) and Spirituality (Archive Room) (Auditorium 2) Led by Hall 1) Moderated by Hall 2) Moderated by Moderated by (Committee Hall) Led Moderated by Vivek Yvette Watt and Cindy Milburn Lori Gruen Aniruddha Majumder by Susan Eirich Menon Jessica Ullrich 15:00 Nadra Nathai-gyan et A workshop with an NVK Ashraf - Animal Jeff Sebo - Can Animals Akanksha Kotibhaskar - A workshop with an al - Wild Animals open-ended discussion behavior and human Act Together? 148 Monkey Business 202 open-ended discussion Seized in the Illegal without objectives, but ethics: The use of without objectives, but Trade in Trinidad and allowing people to similes from the animal allowing people to Tobago – What Fate explore topics of joint world to impart human explore topics of joint Awaits Them? 94 interest. Notes will be values in India 223 interest. Notes will be 15:30 Lauri Hyers et al - taken and provided to Alwin Devaraj - Effect Fabiola Leyton - Animal Sneha Das - The Head, taken and provided to Farmers' Perceptions the relevant Minding of Housing and Research and Bioethics the Breath and the the relevant Minding of Chimpanzee Crop Animals Study Circle. Handling Practices on 192 Man: Contextualising Animals Study Circle. Raiding at the Bounds This workshop will the Welfare, Behaviour Balidaana in the This workshop will of the Gishwati explore animals, art and Selection of Wistar Kaamaakhyaa Cult 240 focus on: the National Forest and aesthetics. Rats by Researchers in Interconnection Reserve in Western an Animal Research Between Spirituality Rwanda 147 Facility 272 and Activism as an 16:00 Karen Mancera - The Khushboo Gupta - Carlos Federico Ramos Shikha Panwar - Essential Step Forward effects of transport Welfare of Dairy de Jesus - Justice as Animals in the Royal stress on the behavior Animals in India 320 Fairness and non- Sacrifice: A study of and welfare of the human animals: a the Ashvamedha Yajña Eastern Blue Tongued feasible dialogue? 235 258 Lizard (Tiliqua scincoides) et al 35
16:30 - 17:00 Afternoon Tea Break (Convention Centre Portico)
17:00 - 17:30 Closing Plenary Session (Auditorium 2) Master of Ceremonies, Radhika Bhagat , Wildlife Trust of India
Conference Awards presented by Jagdish Kishwan, Senior Director, Wildlife Trust of India
Thank You Gifts presented by Dr Rakesh Batabyal, Member Organising Committee MAC3, and Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
17:30 - 18:30 Closing Plenary Speaker: Vivek Menon, Convener MAC3 and CEO, Wildlife Trust of India (Auditorium 2) Introduced and Moderated by Kim Stallwood
18:30 - 18:45 Farewell to Minding Animals Conference 3 and Invitation to Minding Animals Conference 4: Dr Rod Bennison , Member Steering Committee MAC3, and Founder and Chairperson, Minding Animals International Incorporated
18:45 - 22:00 Official Conference Dinner (Convention Centre Portico)
19:30 – 20:00 Dinner Speaker: Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke, Introduced by Christine Townend. Ace will be talking about A Lion Called Christian (a film celebrating the life and friendship of Christian, Ace Bourke and Tony Rendall) and his views on animal protection.
20:30 – 22:00 Cultural Event/DJ Night