Conference Programme

SUNDAY 12 JULY 2009 SOCIAL TOURS

Animal Documentaries Festival Commences in 0845 - 0900 the Playhouse (Moderator: Randy Malamud)

0900 - 0915 0915 - 0930 0930 - 0945 0945 - 1000 1000 - 1015 1015 - 1030 Safer Medicines 1030 - 1045 1045 - 1100 1100-1115 Hunter Valley Winery Bushwalking and Whale and Dolphin Tour: depart hotels 1115 - 1130 Meat the Truth Birdwatching OR Watching: depart Lee 0845, return City Hall 1130 - 1145 Canoeing in the Hunter Wharf 1000, return Lee 1530 1145 - 1200 Wetlands: depart hotels Wharf 1300 1200 - 1215 0900, return City Hall 1430 1215 - 1230 American Coyote: Still 1230 - 1245 Wild At Heart 1245 - 1300 1300 - 1315 Cull of the Wild: the 1315 - 1330 Truth About Trapping 1330 - 1345 1345 - 1400 1400 - 1415 1415 - 1430 A Delicate Balance 1430 - 1445 Animals and Religion Whale and Dolphin Viewing of Animals and Interfaith Service in Watching: depart Lee 1445 - 1500 Art Exhibition, Cooks Christ Church Wharf 1330, return Lee 1500 - 1515 Hill Art Gallery Cathedral Wharf 1630 1515 - 1530 1530 - 1545 The Disenchanted 1545 - 1600 Forest 1600 - 1615 Registration 1615 - 1630 Commences in the 1630 - 1645 Mulubinba Room 1645 - 1700 1700 - 1715 Saving Luna 1715 - 1730 1730 - 1745 Viewing of Animals and Art Exhibition by the Newcastle School, Concert Hall 1745 - 1800 1800 - 1930 Welcome Reception, Hunter Room, City Hall MONDAY 13 JULY 2009 Banquet Room 0800 - 0900 Registration Concert Hall 0900 - 0905 Introductions: Rod Bennison and Jill Bough, Minding Animals Conference Co-convenors, Animals and Society (Australia) Study Group, Australia 0905 - 0910 Acknowledgement to Country 0910 - 0930 Welcome to the Conference: Kevin McConkey, University of Newcastle, Australia 0930 - 0940 House-keeping

0940 - 1030 Opening Keynote: Minding Animals: A Compassionate Footprint, , University of Colorado, USA KN001 (Moderator: Jill Bough)

Banquet Room 1030 - 1100 Morning Tea Concert Hall

1100 - 1155 Keynote: Some Obstacles in the Way of Uniting the Three Life-affirming Movements, Michael Soulé, Wildlands Network, TWS, USA KN002 (Moderator: Jennifer Wolch)

1155 - 1200 5 minute changeover Cummings Room Concert Hall Hunter Room

Coral Reefs in Crisis: Human Impacts, Climate Change and the next Marine Mass Revisiting Grand Narrative History: the challenge of the British cat and dog massacre Values Education: A Pedagogy for Enhancing and Instilling Compassion, Extinction, Peter Harrison, Southern Cross University, Australia IS002 (Moderator: Glenn of World War Two , , Ruskin College, Oxford, UK IS003 (Moderator: Jennifer 1200 - 1300 Terry Lovat, The University of Newcastle, Australia IS001 (Moderator: Abdul Rahman) Albrecht) McDonell)

Banquet Room 1300 - 1400 Lunch Concert Hall A1 Cummings Room A2 Hunter Room A3 Mulubinba Room A4 Newcastle Room A5 UNHTH A6

On Coetzee's Animals - Embodiment, Animals and Society Groups Forum Animal Philosophy and - I Animals and the Law I (Moderator: Sandra Canine Encounters I (Moderator: Pauleen Animals and the Vet (Moderator: Stephen 1400 - 1500 Sympathy and Representation (Moderator: (Moderator: Peter Thornber) (Moderator: ) Burr) Bennett) Atkinson) Chris Hartnett)

Developing a Human-Animal Studies , Interests and Moral Standing: a An Investigation into Common human-dog-interactions – Are Parleying with Patients: acclimatizing Thinking Embodiment in J.M. Coetzee's Research Network, Natalie Edwards and critical examination of dialogue between Prosecutions and Sentencing in New tactile stimulations welcome from both veterinary practice to the selves of animals, Elizabeth Costello, Suzie Gibson, University Carol Freeman, The Animals and Society Regan and Frey, Rebekah Humphreys, Zealand, Arnja Dale, Unitec, New Zealand sides?, Franciska Kuhne, Division of Animal Chris Degeling, , of New England, Australia OP013 (Australia) Study Group, Australia ASG01 Cardiff University of Wales, UK OP001 OP004 Welfare and , Germany OP007 Australia OP010

The Development of - Can Special Relations Ground the Attitudes of Owners Influence Various Dog Advancing Animal Welfare Standards Elizabeth Costello’s Animals: Dialogue, , Carol Gigliotti, Following 's Footsteps Privileged Moral Status of Humans Over Health Care Practices, Vanessa Rohlf, Within the Veterinary Profession, Andrew Aporia, Sympathy, Anthony Uhlmann, Carr University, Institute for Critical Animal or Creating New Pawprints?, Dominique Animals?, Robert Jones, California State Centre, Monash Knight, Animal Consultants International, UK University of Western Sydney, Australia Studies, USA and Canada ASG02 Thiriet, James Cook University, Australia University, USA OP002 University Caulfield campus, Australia OP008 OP011 OP014 OP005

Charity Begins at Home, but Not in the Paddock: An Examination of the Contradictions in Veterinarian’s Work The Place of Non-human Animals in Adam Thinking Across the Boundaries, Erica Development of the Legal Meaning of A Dog’s Life on the Streets of Bangkok , Process in Mixed-animal Practice – Activity A Dog With A Broken Back: Animals in the Smith’s "Theory of Moral Sentiments", Fudge, British Animal Studies Network, Charity in Australia in the Context of What Nikki Savvides, University of Sydney, Theoretical Analysis, Kalevi Paldanius, fiction of J.M. Coetzee, James Ley, Australia Alejandra Mancilla, Charles Sturt University, Middlesex University, UK ASG03 it Means for Animals, Celeste Black, Sydney Australia OP009 Savonia University of Applied Sciences, OP015 Australia OP003 Law School, Sydney University, Australia Finland OP012 OP006

1500 - 1505 5 minute changeover Concert Hall B1 Cummings Room B2 Hunter Room B3 Mulubinba Room B4 Newcastle Room B5 UNHTH B6

Violence, Sacrifice, and the Ethics of Animals and Society Groups Forum Animal Philosophy and Ethics - II Animals in Medical and Scientific Research Canine Encounters II (Moderator: Sandra Indigenous Views of Animals (Moderator: 1505 - 1605 Representation in Literature (Moderator: (Moderator: Peter Thornber) (Moderator: Vivek Menon) - I (Moderator: Miriam Orwin) Burr) Lesley Instone) Andrew Bartlett)

The New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal The RAAT project: alternatives to using Cost Benefit Analysis of different “Yandel’ora, Land of Peace between Animal Property Rights: A New Model for The Death of the (Animal) Body in Picture Studies, Annie Potts, New Zealand Centre for animals in research, Denise Russell and management options for Free Roaming Peoples”, a traditional Aboriginal story, Promoting Sustainability, John Hadley, Books for Young Children, Clare Bradford, Human-Animal Studies, University of Melissa Boyde, University of Wollongong, Dog populations in Abruzzo, Italy, Antonio Lorraine Robertson, The University of Charles Sturt University, Australia OP016 Deakin University, Australia OP028 Canterbury, New Zealand ASG04 Australia OP019 di Nardo, IZS AandM, Italy OP022 Newcastle, Australia OP025

Reimagining Relationships between Current Issues about Animals: social People, Animals and Place through sciences perspectives and the social Nonhuman Animals within Human Society - The Divided Kingdom: Inconsistency in the Impact of Cage Environment on Rat Stress Indigenous-Owned Tourism: a Case Study Killing the Beast: and the debate in Switzerland, Claudine Burton- an Approach from Human Responsibility, British Legislation Restricting the Tail Levels, Ann Baldwin, University of Arizona, of Bawaka Cultural Experiences, North Melancholy of Race, Leonie Rutherford, Jeangros, Représentations des animaux dans Peng Guo, Shandong University, China Docking of Dogs, David Delafenetre, USA OP020 East Arnhem Land, Australia, Sandie Suchet-Deakin University, Australia OP030 les médias suisses, University of Geneva, OP017 Canada OP023 Pearson, Macquarie University, Australia Switzerland ASG05 OP026

Systematic Reviews of Animal Experiments Dead Dogs in Cyberspace: Time, Emotion Ecological Ethics of Indigenous Human The Development and Future of Human- Do Animals have an Interest in Continued Demonstrate Poor Contributions Toward and the Memorializing of Domestic , Populations of Northern Siberia in Relation Animal Studies, Kenneth Shapiro, Animals Life?, Frederika Kaldewaij, Universiteit Speaker withdrawn OP029 Human Healthcare, Andrew Knight, Animal Peter Corrigan, University of New England, to Animals, Ksenia Nikitchuk, Tomsk State and Society Institute, USA ASG06 Utrecht, The Netherlands OP018 Consultants International, UK OP021 Australia OP024 University, Russian Federation OP027

Banquet Room 1605 - 1630 Afternoon Tea Concert Hall C1 Cummings Room C2 Hunter Room C3 Mulubinba Room C4 Newcastle Room C5 UNHTH C6

Biocentric and Ecocentric Considerations Animals, Science and Ethics I (Moderator: Matters of Animal Welfare (Moderator: Animal Advocacy and Activism - I Animals, Culture and Religion I (Moderator: 1630 - 1730 for Nonhuman Animals (Moderator: Glenn Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Robert C. Jones) Mark Berriman) (Moderator: ) Moderator: Miriam Orwin) Albrecht)

Understanding the Animal Research Animal Activism and Advocacy in Australia, New Zealand Animal Welfare Standards, Biocentric Inegalitarianism and Obligations Islam and Animal Welfare, Abdul Rahman, Controversy: How Scientists Present the USA and the UK: Ideologies, Strategies Cheryl O'Connor, Ministry of Agriculture and to Animals, Karann Durand, Austin College, Commonwealth Veterinary Association, India Themselves as ‘Ethical Actors’, Pru Hobson- and Tactics, Lyle Munro, Monash University Forestry, New Zealand OP034 USA OP040 OP043 West, University of Nottingham, UK OP031 Gippsland, Australia OP037

The Politics of Cruelty and Kindness: a Mining Animals – The Promises and The role of the Invasive Animals Cross-cultural Comparison of Animal The Naked Truth: The Ethics of PETA’s Animal Policy – What is it, What can it be?, The role and place of chaplaincy within an Patents of Animal Genetics Science, Cooperative Research Centre, Tony Welfare in the UK and India, Krithika Advertising, Vasile Stanescu, Stanford, USA Outi Ratamäki, University of Joensuu, Finland animal hospital, Barbara Allen, Uniting Richard Twine, Lancaster University, UK Peacock, Invasive Animals Cooperative Srinivasan, King's College London, UK OP038 OP041 Church, Australia OP044 OP032 Research Centre, Canberra, Australia SS001 OP035

The Psychological and Physical Effects of Not Respecting Animals - a Fundamental Ecological Inclusion, the Protection of Science and Ethics: Overcoming Ideology , Interpretations and Implications of Genesis Participating in a Mass Euthanasia and Fatal Error of Mankind - the Reasons, Animals and the Total Environment, Rod Bernie Rollin, Colorado State University, USA 1 to Genesis 9:17, Roberta Kalechofsky, Operation, Jessica Walker, Unitec, New Teresa Buss-Carden, World League for Bennison, University of Newcastle, Australia OP033 , USA OP045 Zealand OP036 Protection of Animals, Australia OP039 OP042

1730 - 1800 Break Galleries 1800 - 1930 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Newcastle Art Space (opened by Steve Baker) TUESDAY 14 JULY 2009 Banquet Room 0800 - 0830 Registration Concert Hall

0830 - 0925 Keynote: Global Production Networks, Urban Consumption, and the Carbon Hoofprint of Cities, Jennifer Wolch, University of California, Berkeley, USA KN003 (Moderator: Lesley Instone)

0925 - 0930 5 minute changeover Cummings Room Concert Hall Hunter Room

A practical and relational approach to education: the kangaroo issue and a Renaissance Animal Things, Erica Fudge, Middlesex University, UK IS005 (Moderator: A Theory of for Animals: Prospects and Possibilities, , University failing society, Steve Garlick and Jennifer Carter, University of the Sunshine Coast, 0930 - 1030 Lesley Instone) of Leicester, UK IS006 (Moderator: Siobhan O'Sullivan) Australia IS004 (Moderator: Clive Phillips)

Banquet Room 1030 - 1055 Morning Tea Concert Hall D1 Cummings Room D2 Hunter Room D3 Mulubinba Room D4 Newcastle Room D5 UNHTH D6

Writing Cats and Dogs: Reading Practices Animals in Transit (Moderator: Andrew Animal Philosophy and Ethics - III Keeping Animals (Moderator: Robyn Animals Culture and Religion II (Moderator: 1055 - 1155 Protecting the Animals Seminar Series and Historical Representation (Moderator: Bartlett) (Moderator: Karann Durland) Delaney) Abdul Rahman) Sandra Burr)

Are Speciesist and Does it Shops and Limitations on Embracing The Cute and the Dead: Early Modern Cats, Welfare of Animals During Transport, Islam and the Protection of Nonhuman Matter?, Alasdair Cochrane, London School Welfare Codes, Di Evans, West Australian Dirty Play, and the Conundrum of Cruelty, Donald Broom, Cambridge University, UK Animals, Rod Bennison, The University of of Economics and Political Science, UK Department of Agriculture and Food, Australia Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA OP050 Newcastle, Australia OP059 OP053 OP056 OP062

A Conservation Ethic and the Collecting of China’s Confucian Horses: The Place of Live Export: OK for Our Animals to Suffer Animal welfare: not just consequentialism, Animals by Institutions of Natural Heritage "Ladies Pets", Victorian Dogs and the Non-human Animals in a Confucian World Defending the Credibility of Anti- in Countries Far Away?, Glenys Oogjes, Clare McCausland, University of , in the Twenty-first Century: Perspectives Politics of Affect, Jennifer McDonell, Order, Bao-Er, The Blue Mountains Legal vivisectionists, Helen Marston, AAHR Inc., Animals Australia Inc., Australia OP051 Australia OP054 from Australian Museums, Timothy Ikin, University of New England, Australia OP063 Research Centre, Australia OP060 Melbourne, Australia SS002 University of Sydney, Australia OP057

Attitudes to animals in Eurasia: the Living to Tell the Tale: Rewriting Domestic Welfare of Beef Cattle during Inter-island What Constitutes an Ethical Source of identification of different types of animal From Behind the Veil, Maggy Hunter, Animals and Traditional Stories for Transport in Indonesia, Dahlanuddin, Animals for Pet Shops?, Mandy Symons, protection through an international survey, University of Tasmania, Australia OP055 Children and Adults, Lucile Desblache, Univesity of Mataram, Indonesia OP052 RSPCA Queensland, Australia OP058 Clive Philips, University of Queensland, Roehampton University, UK OP064 Australia OP061

1155 - 1200 5 minute changeover Cummings Room Concert Hall Hunter Room

Contemporary Issues in in Australia, Dan Lunney, NSW How are our Obligations to Animals Related to Knowledge of their Cognitive Ability?, A Lion Called Christian, Anthony 'Ace' Bourke, University of Wollongong, Australia, IS009 Department of Environment and Climate Change, Australia IS007 (Moderator: Glenn 1200 - 1300 Donald Broom, Cambridge University, UK IS008 (Moderator: Clive Phillips) (Moderator: Melissa Boyde) Albrecht)

Banquet Room Newcastle Room 1300 - 1400 Lunch Special Lunchtime Round-table: Nonhuman Animals and the Queer Communities Concert Hall E1 Cummings Room E2 Hunter Room E3 Mulubinba Room E4 Newcastle Room E5 UNHTH E6

Mainstream Politics and an Agenda for Animal Philosophy and Ethics - IV Animals and Education I (Moderator: Poetic Animals (Moderator: Susan 1400 - 1500 Animals in India (Moderator: Vivek Menon) Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Animals (Moderator: Siobhan O'Sullivan) (Moderator: Robert C. Jones) Mandy Symons) McHugh)

Animal Ethics In Schools: An Inquiry into the Anthropocentric Are Politicians Doing their Fair Share for Animal Agency: Ethics and Ontology, Elisa Recommendations for Primary and An Introduction to a Taxonomy of Modern Boundaries of the Indian Social Science Animals?, Andrew Bartlett, University of Aaltola, Manchester Metropolitan University, Secondary School Curricula, Joy Verrinder, American Animal Poetry, Onno Oerlemanns, Imagination, Krithika Srinivasan, King's Queensland, Australia OP065 UK OP068 Animal Welfare League of Queensland, Hamilton College, USA OP077 College London, UK OP074 Australia OP071

“We’re tired of trees”: Deleuze and The MAWA Trust Initiatives and Non- Building strong public campaigns – key to Against the Argument from Guattari’s Becoming-Animal and the Holy Mother Cow In India: Past, Present Animal Methodologies within Biomedical winning , The Hon. Lee Neuroanatomical Similarity, Sascha Fink, and Affective Education, Gail Ecological Sublime in William Blake’s Lyca and Future, Ashok Rathore, Animal Welfare Research, Anne Keogh (with Sharyn Watson, Rhiannon MLC, NSW Parliament, Australia Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Tulloch, Griffith University, Australia OP072 Poems, Peter Heymans, Vrije Universiteit and Veterinary Science Institute, India OP076 Brett Lidbury and Andrew Knight), The MAWA OP066 Germany OP069 Brussel (Free University of Brussels), Belgium Trust, Canberra, Australia SS003 OP078

Understanding the importance of Merleau- The "Rhetoric of Animality" and Animal Ponty's notion of interanimality to the Animals and Education: Possibilities in Imagery in the Poetry of Jack Mapanje, Speaker withdrawn OP067 development of a post-human ethic, Fiona Universities, Kathie Jenni, University of Speaker withdrawn OP075 Syned Mthatiwa, University of the Utley, University of New England, Australia Redlands, USA OP073 Witwatersrand, South Africa OP079 OP070 1500 - 1505 5 minute changeover Concert Hall F1 Cummings Room F2 Hunter Room F3 Mulubinba Room F4 Newcastle Room F5 UNHTH F6

Can the Study of Ethics at University Animal Welfarism: a damaged brand? Animal Philosophy and Ethics - V Animal Histories I (Moderator: Claire Emotion, Community and Performance 1505 - 1605 Generate Positive Change for Animals? Protecting the Animals Seminar Series (Moderator: Stephen Atkinson) (Moderator: Brett Buchanan) Brennan) (Moderator: Peta Tait) (Moderator: Robyn Delaney)

From the Traditional Travelling Circus to the Global Zoo: the persistence of Scientific Assessment of Welfare and Orpheus Rewound: Eros, Empathy, and the Teaching animal ethics to veterinarians, Problems and issues in Writing Animal ‘performing’ animal shows in the 21st Obligations to Animals we use, Donald Politics of the Feminine, Zipporah Weisberg, Clive Philips, University of Queensland, History, Hilda Kean, Ruskin College, Oxford, century, Gillian Arrighi, University of Broom, Cambridge University, UK OP080 York University, Canada OP083 Australia OP086 UK OP089 Newcastle, Australia (to be read by Peta Tait) OP092

Pigeons: how the humble pigeon (and Farming: Exploitation of Sentient Animals Alleviating pain in farm animals, Kevin Can Killing be Justified? A Dismissal of the Teaching Animal Ethics: Theory, Practice dove) has changed the course of history Thanks, I'd Rather Go Naked: Theatricality, for Meat, Glenys Oogjes, Animals Australia Stafford, Institute of Veterinary Animal and , Tatjana Visak, and Genuine Conviction, John Hadley, despite being victims of prejudice, Barbara Nudity, and Animal Rights, Michelle Inc., Melbourne, Australia SS004 Biomedical Sciences, New Zealand OP081 Utrecht University, Netherlands OP084 CSU, Australia OP087 Allen, Lort Smith Animal Hospital, Australia Lindenblatt, New York University, USA OP093 OP090

Description or Prescription? The The Philosophy Behind the Movement: Is animal welfarism a damaged brand?, Difference Between Ethics and Morality in British sea lions and the ‘underwater ship’, Animal Studies vs. Animal Rights, Elisa Paul Hemsworth, University of Melbourne, Human – Non Human Animal David Wilson, University of Cumbria, UK Speaker withdrawn OP094 Aaltola, Manchester Metropolitan University, Australia OP082 Relationships, Glenn Albrecht, Murdoch OP091 UK OP085 University, Australia OP088

Banquet Room 1605 - 1630 Afternoon tea Concert Hall G1 Cummings Room G2 Hunter Room G3 Mulubinba Room G4 Newcastle Room G5 UNHTH G6 Posthumanism and Postcolonial Animal Law Education (Moderator: Animal Philosophy and Ethics - VI Captive Management and Zoo Animal Animals in Medical and Scientific Research 1630 - 1730 Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Considerations (Moderator: Lucile Dominique Thiriet) (Moderator: Carrie Packwood Freeman) Welfare (Moderator: Lee Rhiannon) - II (Moderator: Michael Morris) Desblache)

From “Animal Machines” to “Happy Meat”? Animal Law Teaching in Australian Protecting Animals versus the Pursuit of Foucault’s Ideas of Disciplinary and Zoos - Their Visitors and Universities: Challenges and Prospects, Knowledge: the Evolution of the British "Moa Stories", Philip Armstrong, University Pastoral Power Applied to ‘Animal-Centred’ Other Animals, Andrew Tribe, University of Steven White, Griffith University, Australia Animal Research Policy Process, Dan of Canterbury, New Zealand OP107 Welfare Reform, Matthew Cole, Cardiff Queensland, Australia OP101 OP095 Lyons, , UK OP104 University, UK OP098

Porcine Islet Cell : Restoring the Balance: Bringing Wolves What Do We Show Them? The Use of Non- Imaginative Attention and 'going on' in International Research Collaborations and Home to the Grand Canyon, Paula Lewis, Conflicting Post-humanisms: The Hunter Law Resources to Support the Teaching of Sympathy For The Devil, Timothy Faulkner, philosophy about Animals, Lesley McLean, Comparative Regulatory Perspectives, Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project , USA and Oryx and Crake, Sally Borrell, Middlesex Animal Law, Celeste Black, Sydney Law Australian Reptile Park, Australia OP102 University of New England, Australia OP099 Myra Cheng, University of Technology SS005 University,UK OP108 School, Sydney University, Australia OP096 Sydney, Australia OP105

Limits and Leeways: the Relationship Reason, Identity and Habit: If norms are and Anti-Vivisection in the between Animal Law and Community governed by the Space of Reasons why Saving the Devil Exhibition, Trevor Weekes, Sex and the Species Boundary, Helen Tiffin, Victorian Era, Roberta Kalechofsky, New Advocacy, Elizabeth Ellis, University of aren’t we all vegetarians?, Simon Lumsden, The University of Newcastle, Australia OP103 University of Tasmania, Australia OP109 York University, USA OP106 Wollongong, Australia OP097 UNSW, Australia OP100

1730 - 1800 Break Galleries 1800 - 1830 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music (Tasmanian Devil Art Exhibition opened by Timothy Faulkner and a Devilish Friend) 1830 - 1900 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Lovett Gallery (opened by Randy Malamud) 1900 - 1930 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Forsight Gallery (opened by Marc Bekoff) 1930 - 2000 Viewing of Animals and Art Exhibition, Back2Back Gallery WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2009 Banquet Room 0800 - 0830 Registration Concert Hall

0830 - 0925 Keynote: Emerging Social Ethics for Animals: Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenomenon, Bernie Rollin, Colorado State University, USA KN004 (Moderator: Clive Phillips)

0925 - 0930 5 minute changeover Concert Hall H1 Cummings Room H2 Hunter Room H3 Mulubinba Room H4 Newcastle Room H5 UNHTH H6

Extinction and Imagination I (Moderator: Animals and Music (Moderator: Mandy Discussions on Derrida, Haraway and Down on the Farm I (Moderator: Sandra Animals and Science Fiction (Moderator: 0930 - 1030 Great Apes (Moderator: Peter Thornber) Claudine Burton-Jeangros) Symons) Agamben I (Moderator: Brett Buchanan) Burr) Lucile Desblache)

New Wars and Great Apes: The Language of Sound: Exploring Bestia sacer: Agamben’s anthropological Shaping Attitudes of Future Farmers Spotted Hyenas: learning to love the most Integrating Perspectives from Conflict When It Changed: Interaction Between People and Birds, machine and human/nonhuman animals Through Animal Handling Training,Di hated mammal in Africa, Marcus Baynes- Research, Species Protection and and Science Fiction, Sherryl Vint, Brock Andrew Whitehouse, University of Aberdeen, ethico-political relations, Robin Mackenzie, Evans, Western Australia Department of Rock, Macquarie University, Australia OP111 , Judith Benz-Schwarzburg , University, Canada OP126 UK OP117 University of Kent, UK OP120 Agriculture and Food, Australia OP123 University of Tuebingen, Germany OP114

Nature’s Refugees: The ‘personhood’ of Bird Cage and Le merle noir: The Role of Technē and Animal Shame: Political Keeping Pure and Clean. Can the Negative figures of animal alterity (1970- Overkill and Overstatement, Rod Bennison, chimpanzees in African sanctuaries, Birdsong in the Works of John Cage and Economies of Animals and Technology, Concept of Genocide be Applied to (mass- 2008) in French-speaking science fiction, The University of Newcastle, Australia OP112 Deborah Graziano, James Cook University, Olivier Messiaen, Martin Ullrich, Berlin Jon Seltin, Macquarie University, Australia killings in) Husbandry?, Geertrui Cazaux, Emmanuel Gouabault, University of Geneva, Australia OP115 University of the Arts, Germany OP118 OP121 Belgium OP124 Switzerland OP127

The Beginning of Messiaen and the lyre bird - notes on bird Evolution and a Hierarchy of Species in Flying Fox: Kin, Keystone, Kontaminant, Derrida’s Hedgehog and the Possible Judging Breeding: Agricultural Shows and the End for Chimpanzee Experiments?, song in Australian music, Tony Mitchell, Contemporary Science Fiction, Natalia Deborah Rose, Macquarie University, Poetry of Hospitality, Rowena Braddock, Livestock Improvement, Claire Brennan, Andrew Knight, Animal Consultants University of Technology Sydney, Australia Tobin, University of New England, Australia Australia OP113 The University of Sydney, Australia OP122 James Cook University, Australia OP125 International, UK OP116 OP119 OP128

Banquet Room 1030 - 1055 Morning Tea Concert Hall I1 Cummings Room I2 Hunter Room I3 Mulubinba Room I4 Newcastle Room I5 UNHTH I6

Extinction and Imagination II (Moderator: Animals, Science and Ethics II (Moderator: Justice for Animals (Moderator: Ondine Discussions on Derrida, Haraway and Down on the Farm II (Moderator: Claire Animals and the Classics (Moderator: 1055 - 1155 Vivek Menon) Simon Lumsden) Sherman) Agamben II (Moderator: Robert C. Jones) Brennan) Susan McHugh)

Consumers and Livestock Production: ‘Most Swift, Wise and Divine’: Perceptions Imagining Extinction: Absent parents, ‘Lay’ Involvement in the UK Ethical Review Animals, Justice and Autonomy: in defence A Consideration of Mere Life and Bodily Exploring the Attitudes and of the Importance of Dogs and Other hypothetical species and the lost birds of Process: Constructing ‘Ethical’ Science?, of sentiency and the argument from Relationships, Sarah Reese, Rice University, Understandings of Finnish Consumers, Domestic Pets in the Ancient Greek World, paradise, Rick de Vos, Curtin University of Kathleen Job, University of Nottingham, UK marginal cases, Robert Garner, University of USA OP138 Saara Kupsala, University of Joensuu, Lynda Garland, University of New England, Technology, Australia OP129 OP132 Leicester, UK OP135 Finland OP141 Australia OP144

Griffins, Centaurs, Sirens. Constructing the Green Eggs and Ham: Michael Pollan, Pain of Extinction: The Death of a Vulture, : Containment, Biopolitics Animal Rights Without Liberation, Alasdair What Factors lead Australians to support ‘Other’ and Defining Culture and , and The Myth of Ethical Thom van Dooren, University of Technology, and Science, Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Cochrane, London School of Economics and or actively reject Factory Farming?, Iris Civilisation in Classical Greece, Matthew and Sustainable Meat, Vasile Stanescu, Sydney, Australia OP130 Western Sydney, Australia OP133 Political Science, UK OP136 Bergmann, RMIT University, Australia OP142 Dillon, University of New England, Australia Stanford, USA OP139 OP145

Common Elements in Representations of Reversing Extinction: Restoration and Overcoming the Impasse – A New Imagining Justice for Animals, Siobhan On Human/Animal Friendship: A : Where Theory Meets Lions and Human Warriors in Classical Resurrection in the Pleistocene Rewilding Spontaneous Paradigm for Animal O'Sullivan, University of Melbourne, Australia Philosophical Account, Dominique Lestel, Practice", Jenny Grubbs, University of Greek Sculpture and Earlier Literature, Projects, Matt Chrulew, Monash University, Experimentation, Jane Johnson, University OP137 Ecole normale supérieure de Paris, France Cincinnati, USA OP143 Evrydiki Tasopoulou, Bryn Mawr College, Australia OP131 of Sydney, Australia OP134 OP140 USA OP146 Concert Hall J1 Cummings Room J2 Hunter Room J3 Mulubinba Room J4 Newcastle Room J5 UNHTH J6

Animal Welfare Strategies (Moderator: The Human Nonhuman Animal Bond Naming and Power Relations (Moderator: Denial and Witnessing Animal Suffering Down on the Farm III (Moderator: Mark A Mini-Symposium on Performing Animals 1200 - 1300 Ondine Sherman) (Moderator: Claudine Burton-Jeangros) Carrie Packwood Freeman) (Moderator: Deborah Graziano) Berriman) (Moderator: Amanda Lawson)

The Curse of Systems Paradigms: Healing Paws: Representations in the Increasing community-wide conservation Animal Welfare and the European Union, Denial and Silence in Everyday Life: The Agricultural Animals’ Health and Wellbeing Emotions in Trained Animal Performances, Media of Nonhuman Animal Healers, Marie- intentions through images of flagship Judit Krommer, European Commission, case of Animal Suffering, Deidre Wicks, in Australia, Natalie Edwards, Animals and Peta Tait, La Trobe University, Australia France Boissonneault, University of Guelph, species on conservation logos, Amy Smith, Belgium OP147 Newcastle University, Australia OP156 Society (Australia) Study Group and Lifeline OP162 Canada OP150 Michigan State University, USA OP153 Aotearoa, New Zealand OP159

National and Transnational Animal Welfare Citizen Juries: when scientists meet the How to Get Your Tarsus in the Door: Animals and Human Health: Still Looking Colonisation and Dominance through the Bearing Witness to Animal Suffering, Strategies - Australia, Peter Thornber, public and talk about assessing and Extreme Makeover for the Non- for Evidences?, Michalon Jerome, Université Identification or Labelling of Animals, Kathie Jenni, University of Redlands, USA Australian Government, Canberra, Australia monitoring the welfare of farm animals, Charismatic, Mysoon Rizk, University of Jean Monnet - St Etienne, France OP151 Geertrui Cazaux, Belgium OP154 OP157 OP148 Mara Miele, Cardiff University, UK OP160 Toledo, USA OP163

What's in a Name? - Consequences of Parallels between Animal Cruelty and Objectification in Animal Agriculture – National and Transnational Animal Welfare The Human-Companion Animal Bond In The Performing of Not-knowing: Lucy Naming Non-Human Creatures, Sune Human Aggression across the Lifespan, Problems of Political Ideology and Strategy - USA, Bernie Rollin, Colorado State Eriksonian Old Age, Vicki Hutton, Monash Kimbell, Rats and Art, Steve Baker, Borkfelt, University of Aarhus, Denmark Eleonora Gullone, Monash Alienation, Jes Harfeld, Aarhus University, University, USA OP149 University, Australia OP152 University of Central Lancashire, UK OP164 OP155 University,Australia OP158 Denmark OP161 Banquet Room Banquet Room Newcastle Room 1300 - 1400 Lunch Poster Session Special Lunchtime Round-table: Student Forum

Animal Carcinogenicity Studies: Poor Human Predictivity, Andrew Knight, Animal Consultants International, UK PP001 The Poor Contribution of Chimpanzee Experiments to Biomedical Progress, Andrew Knight, Animal Consultants International, UK PP002 Animals as Healers of Human Suffering: the therapeutic value of animals in human experiences of illness and suffering, Marie-France Boissonneault, University of Guelph, Canada PP003 Developing a Human-Animal Studies Research Network, Natalie Edwards and Carol Freeman, The Animals and Society (Australia) Study Group, Australia PP004 Playing Dead: The Depiction and Mistreatment of Animals in Video Games, Dianne Wuillemin, Monash University, Australia PP005 Retired Australians travelling with pets: Implications for health and tourism professionals, Amy Smith, Michigan State University, USA PP006 The European Association of Aquatic Mammals, Sabrina Brando, EAAM, The Netherlands PP007 The Ethical Marine Mammal Show, Sabrina Brando, AnimalConcepts, The Netherlands PP008 When vision isn’t the whole picture: the response of marmosets to auditory and olfactory cues, Caralyn Kemp, Lesley Rogers and Gisela Kaplan, The University of New England, Australia, PP009 The RAAT project: alternatives to using animals in research, Denise Russell and Melissa Boyde, University of Wollongong, Australia PP010

Tours Mulubinba Room

Animal Documentaries Festival continues: Beyond the Cage (1400-1425) 1400 - 1630 Optional Conference Touring: Koala Tour at Blackbutt Reserve Optional Conference Touring: RSPCA Animal Shelter Servants of Ganesh (1425-1530) Animal People - the Humane Movement of America (1530-1700) (Moderator: Randy Malamud) 1630 - 1700 Break Cummings Room

1700 - 1800 Keynote Pre-Dinner Discussion Panel with , Dale Jamieson and Bernie Rollin: Does philosophy have anything new to say about animals? KN005 (Moderator: Siobhan O'Sullivan)

Galleries 1800 - 1900 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibitions, Shop Front Gallery and Front Room Gallery (pre-dinner drinks) Concert Hall

1900 - 2345 Optional Conference Dinner. Conference Dinner Speech: Why Vegan Now? The Sexual Politics of Meat in the 21st Century, Carol Adams, USA DIN001 THURSDAY 16 JULY 2009 Banquet Room 0800 - 0830 Registration Concert Hall 0830 - 0925 Keynote: On Being Unwanted, John Coetzee, University of Adelaide, Australia KN006 (Moderator: Glenn Albrecht) 0925 - 0930 5 minute changeover Concert Hall K1 Cummings Room K2 Hunter Room K3 Mulubinba Room K4 Newcastle Room K5 UNHTH K6

Animal Advocacy: winning hearts and minds Animals and Continental Philosophy I (Moderator: Animals in Film and on TV - I (Moderator: Kalevi 0930 - 1030 Wildlife in the City (Moderator: Dominique Thiriet) Animal Encounters I (Moderator: Nikki Savvides) Protecting the Animals Seminar Series (Moderator: Peter Singer) Chris Danta) Paldanius)

Living with Coyotes in North America: Challenges and Introduction - Ethology and Continental Philosophy in Doggy encounters: Performing new pet relations in the "A Little Vicious": Documenting the "Bad" Animal', Are Animal Advocates Winning Hearts and Minds?, Opportunities, Camilla Fox, Project Coyote and Animal the Context of Twentieth Century Zoöntology, Ralph park, Lesley Instone and Kathy Mee, University of Jennifer McDonell, University of New England, Australia Glenys Oogjes, Animals Australia Inc, Australia OP169 Welfare Institute, USA OP166 Acampora, Hofstra University, USA OP172 Newcastle, Australia OP175 OP178

Raptors in the City: Increasing Urbanization and Its Managing Unwanted Cats and Dogs – Current Practice Every Living Being: Profiles of the Veterinary Winning Hearts and Minds, Mark Pearson, Animal Herder and the Roots of Ethology, Brett Buchanan, Direct Effect on Birds of Prey, Alana Shrubsole-Cockwill, and Can We Do Better, Linda Marston, Monash Using Veterinarians to achieve better outcomes in Practitioner, Marie-France Boissonneault, University of Liberation, Australia OP170 Laurentian University, Canada OP173 University of Saskatchewan, Canada OP167 University, Australia OP176 Animal Welfare, Kevin Doyle, Australian Veterinary Guelph, Canada OP179 Association,Canberra, Australia SS006

"Mrs Boss! We gotta get those fat cheeky bulls into that How Can Humans Inhabit Habitat - Along with Other Animal Encounters In Contemporary Western Culture: Political Parties for Animals, Andrew Knight, Animals Ethology as Ethical Experiment, Matt Chrulew, Monash big bloody metal ship!": Live export as romantic Critters?, Jennifer Wolch and Mona Seymour, University Towards a Better Theory, Petra Stapp, University of Kent, Count, UK OP171 University, Australia OP174 backdrop in Baz Luhrmann’s 'Australia' (2008), Melissa of California, Berkeley, USA OP168 UK OP177 Boyde, University of Wollongong, Australia OP180

Banquet Room 1030 - 1055 Morning Tea Concert Hall L1 Cummings Room L2 Hunter Room L3 Mulubinba Room L4 Newcastle Room L5 UNHTH L6

The Social Sciences / Humanities - Sciences Divide Animals and Continental Philosophy II (Moderator: Animals in Film and on TV - II (Moderator: Syned 1055 - 1155 Animals and the Law II (Moderator: Katrina Sharman) Elephants (Moderator: Deborah Graziano) Protecting the Animals Seminar Series (Moderator: Sandra Burr) Lucile Desblache) Mthatiwa)

The Elephant and the Indian; Challenges of fitting Putting the Fence at the Top of the Cliff: Considering Further Considerations and Fieldwork in Cat British Popular Factual Television and Public Debates Animal Suffering Made Legal, Glenys Oogjes, Animals 25,000 Near-Persons into a human dominated the ‘Macro’ of Animal Harm, Nik Taylor, Flinders Phenomenology, Jeffrey Bussolini, CUNY College of About Companion Animal Welfare, Claire Molloy, Australia Inc, Australia OP184 landscape, Vivek Menon, Wildlife Trust of India, India University, Australia OP181 Staten Island, USA OP187 Liverpool John Moores University, UK OP193 OP190

International Law and the Question of the Animal: The Agriculture and Climate Change: how are we to protect Feathers, Fear, Pigs and Pandemics, Murray, Humanity's Lasting Debt Towards Animals, Dominique Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction, Some Reflections on Donkeys in Literature and Film, Jill Social Justice Movement of the 21st Century, Yoriko animals and the environment?, Carole de Fraga, Massey University, New Zealand OP182 Lestel, Ecole normale supérieure de Paris, France OP188 Dan Wylie, Rhodes University, South Africa OP191 Bough, The University of Newcastle, Australia OP194 Otomo, The University of Melbourne, Australia OP185 Compassion in World Farming, Australia and UK SS007

The use of animals in New Zealand: regulation and Breaking or Forging Love Between the Two? Training The Minding Animals Documentaries Festival: an Building Relationships? Thinking about animals across Summary, Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado, USA practice, Michael Morris, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, New Thai Elephants and their Mahouts, Nikki Savvides, overview, Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, USA disciplines, Lynda Birke, University of Cheter, UK OP183 OP189 Zealand OP186 University of Sydney, Australia OP192 OP195

1155 - 1200 5 minute changeover Cummings Room Concert Hall Hunter Room

Visible Contradictions: the role of animals in human self-images of scientific discourse, Linda Williams, RMIT The improvement of farm animal welfare using a positive approach: a Brazilian experience, Mateus Paranhos da Cultural influences on attitudes to animals, Clive Phillips, University of Queensland, Australia IS012 (Moderator: University, Australia , IS013 and Contemporary Art and Animal Rights, Steve Baker, University of Central Lancashire, 1200 - 1300 Costa, São Paulo State University, Brazil IS011 (Moderator: Katrina Sharman) Marc Bekoff) UK IS014 (Moderator: Miranda Lawry)

Banquet Room Newcastle Room 1300 - 1400 Lunch Special Lunchtime Round-table: Animals and Society Groups Follow-up Concert Hall M1 Cummings Room M2 Hunter Room M3 Mulubinba Room M4 Newcastle Room M5 UNHTH M6

Invasive, Feral or Just Out of Place? I (Moderator: Attention to Animals: Feminist approaches to Animals Animal Encounters II (Moderator: Moderator: Miriam 1400 - 1500 I (Moderator: Mark Berriman) Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Art and the Hybrid Animal (Moderator: Chris Hartnett) Sandra Burr) in Theory and Practice I (Moderator: Robert C. Jones) Orwin)

Binaries, Boundaries and : Multiple and Do “Go Veg” Campaigns Promote Animal Rights? How Recent animal welfare developments for controlling the Attending to Animals: Feminism, Care and alternative human-animal relations in the bullfight from U.S. Animal Rights Organizations Frame Values and The Equivocal Animal - Hybrid Entities in Contemporary impacts of invasive animals in Australia, Tony Peacock, Relationality, Lynda Birke, University of Cheter, UK horseback, Kirrilly Thompson, University of South Ethical Ideology in Food Advocacy, Carrie Freeman, Art, Anne Taylor, Griffith University, Australia OP208 University of Canberra, Australia OP196 OP199 Australia, Australia OP202 Georgia State University, USA OP205

Convergence of culture, ecology and ethics: A Campaign Perspective from The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: Senses of Being: Narratives of Bird Sounds and Narratives of Slaughter in Cooking Shows and Food Animals as Ambassadors: Reordering Habits in the management of feral swamp buffalo in northern International, Nicola Beynon, Humane Society Politicizing Care and Enlarging Activism, Carol Adams, Emplacement in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, Writing, Jovian Parry, University of Canterbury, New Ecosystem, Madeleine Kelly, Griffith University, Australia Australia, Glenn Albrecht, Murdoch University, Australia International, Australia and USA SS008 USA OP200 Andrew Whitehouse, University of Aberdeen, UK OP203 Zealand OP206 OP209 OP197

In Vetland: a Report from an Artist in Residency at the Mediating the Grey-headed Flying Fox: “pest” versus Beyond the Model of Abstinence: An Ecofeminist Appalachian Subsistence, Gender, and Large, Scary Becoming Bird in Irigaray, Rebecca Hill, RMIT University, Murdoch University School of Veterinary and “pollinator”?, Craig Williams, University of Sydney, Approach to , Marti Kheel, Graduate Animals, Ralph Mann, University of Colorado, USA OP204 Australia OP207 Biomedical Sciences, Perdita Phillips, Murdoch Australia OP198 Theological Union, visiting scholar, USA OP201 University, Australia OP210

1500 - 1505 5 minute changeover Concert Hall N1 Cummings Room N2 Hunter Room N3 Mulubinba Room N4 Newcastle Room N5 UNHTH N6

Invasive, Feral or Just Out of Place? II (Moderator: Attention to Animals: Feminist approaches to Animals Commercialisation of Wildlife (Moderator: Vivek Animals and 19th Century Literatures (Moderator: 1505 - 1605 Eating Animals II (Moderator: Ondine Sherman) Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Samia Toukhsati) in Theory and Practice II (Moderator: Karann Durland) Menon) Susan McHugh)

Shifting from Threatened to Popular Nuisance - the Minimising the Number of Individuals Killed in Long- Feminist Pornography Theory and the Sexual (ab)use of 'Most farmers prefer Blondes': Entanglements of Successful Conservation of Crocodiles through Dogland and Dickens' “Two-Dog Shows”, Brian Hudson, term Vertebrate Pest Management Programmes, Bruce non-human animals, Rheya Linden, University of Gender and Nature in Animals' Becoming-Meat, Erika Sustainable Use in Northern Australia, Robyn Delaney, University of Oklahoma, USA OP223 Warburton, Landcare Research, New Zealand OP211 Melbourne, Australia OP214 Cudworth, University of East London, UK OP220 Northern Territory Government, Australia OP217

The Art of Campaigning - Getting the Most out of your Commercial Use of Wildlife: the prevailing conservation Slavery's Bestiary: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus Uncertainty in the City, Mark Wilson, University of Wolf Girls and Hirsute Heroines: Fur, Hair and the and Living Well , Christopher Ciocchetti, Campaigns, Louis Ng, Animal Concerns Research and viewpoint, Dan Lunney, NSW Department of Environment Tales, Christopher Peterson, University of Western Cumbria, UK OP212 Feminine, Jazmina Cininas, RMIT, Australia OP215 Centenary College of Louisiana, USA OP221 Education Society (ACRES), Singapore SS009 and Climate Change, Australia OP218 Sydney, Australia OP224

‘Do I like animals? I eat them, so I suppose I must like Primal Perception: The Artist as Animal in Jules Value to Vermin: the donkey 'out of place' in Australia, Flesh Made Fur: Interfacing Animals and Women, Stella them’: The Ethics of Eating in some recent Narratives, Speaker withdrawn OP219 Laforgue’s Oeuvre, Claire Nettleton, University of Jill Bough, The University of Newcastle, Australia OP213 North, University of Sydney, Australia OP216 Wendy Woodward, University of the Western Cape, South Southern California, USA OP225 Africa OP222

Banquet Room 1605 - 1630 Afternoon Tea Concert Hall O1 Cummings Room O2 Hunter Room O3 Mulubinba Room O4 Newcastle Room O5 UNHTH O6

Conservation and Tourist Initiatives for Animals Species Connections (Moderator: Moderator: Miriam 1630 - 1710 Animal Journals (Moderator: Ondine Sherman) Animal Encounters III (Moderator: Trevor Weekes) Feline Encounters (Moderator: Pauleen Bennett) (Moderator: Sabrina Brando) Orwin)

Filial Science: Behind the Blind in Ellsworth, Maine Meeting Conservation and Animal Welfare Goals, Cheryl A Translocal Perspective: Mustang Images in the Public Attitudes Towards the Control of Stray and Feral with Cordelia Stanwood during the Early Twentieth O'Connor, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Social, Economic and Political Landscape, Karen Dalke, Cats in New Zealand, Mark Farnworth, Unitec Insititute of Century, Cynthia Melendy, Texas Tech University, USA Zealand OP228 University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA OP230 Technology, New Zealand OP232 OP234 Animals and Society (Australia) Study Group: the way forward (Moderator: Natalie Lloyd) Society and Animals, Kenneth Shapiro, Animals and Society Institute, USA OP226 The Mind/Body Connection: Effectiveness of Behavioral Anthropomorphism unravelled: Can similarity Animals and Us: Bringing Human-Animal Studies into Interventions to Increase Positive Emotions and Walking the Dog: Explorations and Negotiations of assessment promote public involvement in wildlife New Zealand Secondary Schools, Nichola Kriek, SAFE Mucosal Immune Competence in Shelter Cats, Nadine Species Difference, Erika Cudworth, University of East conservation?, Amy Smith, Michigan State University, Inc, New Zealand OP231 Gourkow, University of Queensland and BCSPCA, Canada London, UK OP235 USA OP229 OP233

1710 - 1800 Break Galleries 1800 - 1830 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Newcastle Art Gallery (opened by Peter Singer) 1830 - 1900 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Podspace (opened by Linda Wiliams) 1900 - 1930 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Watts Space (opened by John Coetzee) FRIDAY 17 JULY 2009 Banquet Room 0800 - 0830 Registration Concert Hall

0830 - 0925 Keynote: On the Ethics of Pet Keeping, James Serpell, University of Pennsylvania, USA KN007 (Moderator: Glenn Albrecht)

0925 - 0930 5 minute changeover Concert Hall P1 Cummings Room P2 Hunter Room P3 Mulubinba Room P4 Newcastle Room P5 UNHTH P6

Global Media Space I (Moderator: Ralph Human and Nonhuman Animal Matters of Animal Welfare (Moderator: Invasive, Feral or Just Out of Place? III Contemporary Literature and Impacts - I 0930 - 1030 Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Acampora and Philip Armstrong) Connections (Moderator: Ann Baldwin) Mark Berriman) (Moderator: Robyn Delaney) (Moderator: Syned Mthatiwa)

Animal Nostalgia and Solastalgia: The The Politics of Neospeciesism: A Critical Kiwis Against Possums: A Critical Analysis Reading Animals: Empathy and in Art, Carol Gigliotti, Animal Mind and Psychoterratic Distress, Discourse Analysis of Swedish Animal of Anti-Possum Rhetoric in New Zealand, Compassion as Critical Tools, Tanja Emily Carr University, Canada OP236 Glenn Albrecht, Murdoch University, Australia Welfare Ideology, Per-Anders Svärd, Annie Potts, University of Canterbury, New Schwalm, University of Canterbury, New OP239 Stockholm University, Sweden OP242 Zealand OP245 Zealand OP248

Key Actions and Developments in Ending Through an Experience of Embodied A Trace of Kinship: The Place of Animals in Conflicting Goals of Welfare Assessment Wildlife Cruelty, and Relational Ethics: Pet Overpopulation in Australia, Joy Encounter: The Human/Animal Issues in Environmental Aesthetics, Marc Fellenz, Schemes – A Case Study, Rikke Ingemann, Conservation, Welfare and the Ecoversity, Verrinder, QLD Animal Welfare League, Edward Albee's Seascape, Chin-ying Chang, Suffolk County Community College, USA University of Copenhagen and Danish Cattle Steve Garlick, University of the Sunshine Australia SS010 Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan Blurring the Boundaries in Wildlife OP240 Federation, Denmark OP243 Coast, Australia OP246 OP249 Docudrama, Carol Freeman, University of Tasmania, Australia OP237

All Together Now: Opinions on Animal Animal Welfare and the International “Dogs Will Be Destroyed!”, Arianne Not the End of the Story: Animal Agents in Issues at Canada’s Largest Animal NGO, Community, Caley Otter, University of Carvalhedo Reis, University of Otago, New Extinction Fictions, Susan McHugh, Geoff Urton, BCSPCA, Canada OP241 Melbourne, Australia OP244 Zealand OP247 University of New England, USA OP250

Banquet Room 1030 - 1055 Morning Tea Concert Hall Q1 Cummings Room Q2 Hunter Room Q3 Mulubinba Room Q4 Newcastle Room Q5 UNHTH Q6

Global Media Space II (Moderator: Carol Consciousness, Power Relations and Issues for Wildlife (Moderator: Sascha Considering Frogs (Moderator: Robyn Contemporary Literature and Impacts - II 1055 - 1155 Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Gigliotti and Carol Freeman) Advocacy (Moderator: Robert C. Jones) Fink) Delaney) (Moderator: Susan McHugh)

Inventionist Ethology: Sustainable Designs Restoration Ecology and Reintroduction Habitat and habitus: the Green and Golden The Word Made Animal Flesh: J.M. Human Hazards, Human Primacy and the for Reawakening Human-Animal Biology: Implicating the tourist, Eric Bell Frog, environmental science and the Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, Chris Danta, Oppression of Nonhuman Animals, Kay Interactivity, Ralph Acampora, Hofstra Shelton, University of Otago, New Zealand artist, Amanda Lawson, University of University of , Australia Peggs, University of Portsmouth, UK OP254 University, USA OP251 OP257 Wollongong, Australia OP260 OP263

A Preliminary Investigation into Attitudes Homeless and Not Human: Narrative Towards the Use of Electric Collars as a Pain Management for Wildlife, Howard Frogs, Physiognomy and Aesthetics, Ross Inquiries on the Substance of Species, Canine Training Device, Arnja Dale, Unitec, Ralph, Australia OP258 Woodrow, Griffith University, Australia OP261 Lifting the Veil of Secrecy on Factory Shannon Payne, Tulane University, USA New Zealand OP256 Farming, Ondine Sherman, Voiceless, OP264 Australia SS011 The Gaze of Animals, Philip Armstrong, University of Canterbury, New Zealand OP252 “Talking Toads”: community perceptions Wildlife in Research – Choosing life for our of the threat, impact and management of The Dog as Myth and Mate in Australian Speaker withdrawn OP255 native animals, Diana Palmer, Australia cane toads in northern Australia, Rachel Literature, Robert Haworth, The University of OP259 Clarke, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australia New England, Australia OP265 OP262

1155 - 1200 5 minute changeover Cummings Room Concert Hall Hunter Room

Human-animal relationships: an examination of this subtle but profound determinant of , Animal Behaviour and the Australian Magpie: The problem of Why look at animals in visual media? Aesthetics and ethics of the human gaze, Randy the welfare of farm animals, Paul Hemsworth, University of Melbourne, Australia IS015 assigning graded value to animals, Gisela Kaplan, University of New England, Australia 1200 - 1300 Malamud, Georgia State University, USA IS016 (Moderator: Linda Williams) (Moderator: Katrina Sharman) IS017 (Moderator: Clive Phillips) Banquet Room Newcastle Room 1300 - 1400 Lunch Special Lunchtime Round-table: Feminist Approaches to Nonhuman Animals Concert Hall R1 Cummings Room R2 Hunter Room R3 Mulubinba Room R4 Newcastle Room R5 UNHTH R6 Animals in Social Science and Scientific Animal Histories II (Moderator: Claire Invasive, Feral or Just Out of Place? III Animals and the Literature of Modernity 1400 - 1500 Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Literature (Moderator: Claudine Burton- Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Brennan) (Moderator: Robyn Delaney) (Moderator: Brian Hudson) Jeangros)

The Neglect of Cruelty to Human and “I am I because my little dog knows me”: British gulls versus the U-boat, 1915-17, Bias in Species Protection: the New Nonhuman Animals in the Social-Scientific Gertrude Stein and the human-animal David Wilson, University of Cumbria, UK Zealand Possum Story, Lorraine Weston- Literature, Lyle Munro, Monash University, subject, Kate Livett, ACU National, Australia OP269 Webb, New Zealand OP275 Australia OP272 OP278

Integrating Values and Ethics into Wildlife Policy and Management ~ Lessons from Mainstreaming animal rights: Campaigning Rinderpest - the end of a veterinary “Technoscientific Bespoking” in Action: Minding the Indigenous; Minding the ‘From Silence to The Silenced : The Animal North America, Camilla Fox, Animal Welfare for animal rights in an animal welfare scourge, Kevin Stafford, Institute of Analyzing Nature Biotechnology Journal’s Exotic: The Conservation/Animal Rights Kingdom in the Work of Marguerite Institute and Project Coyote (a project of the world, Hans Kriek, SAFE NZ, New Zealand Veterinary Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Texts on Nonhuman Animals, Sari Ung, Conundrum, Helen Tiffin, University of Yourcenar (1903-1987) ’, Jane Southwood, Earth Island Institute), USA and Marc Bekoff, SS013 New Zealand OP270 University of Jyväskylä, Finland OP273 Tasmania, Australia OP276 University of New England, Australia OP279 Board Member Project Coyote, USA SS012

Recovery of a Stray Cat Population The Animal Figure in Janet Frame’s Mona Speaking With Beasts: Early Modern Ideas Brazilian Contemporary Zoo-literature, following a one-time Capture, Neuter and Minim and the Smell of the Sun, Annie About Human-Animal Communication, Maria Ester Maciel Borges, Federal University Return Program in the Asia-Pacific, Samia Finnie, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Erica Fudge, Middlesex University, UK OP271 of Minas Gerais, Brazil OP274 Toukhsati, Monash University, Australia OP280 OP277 1500 - 1505 5 minute changeover Concert Hall

1505 - 1605 Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture: Philosophical Animism , Deborah Bird Rose, Macquarie University, Australia KN008 (Moderator: Linda Williams)

Banquet Room 1605 - 1630 Afternoon tea Concert Hall S1 Cummings Room S2 Hunter Room S3 Mulubinba Room S4 Newcastle Room S5 UNHTH S6

Teaching Animal Studies in a Tertiary Marine Mammals: Views from Sociology, Training and Enrichment Caring for Animal Advocacy and Activism - II Representation and Imagination 1630 - 1730 Environment (Moderator: Claudine Burton- the Arts and Science I (Moderator: Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Companions (Moderator: Sandra Burr) (Moderator: Louis Ng) (Moderator: Brian Hudson) Jeangros) Moderator: Emmanuel Gouabault)

Why can't we be Friends? The Practical Wolfish Imaginations: Writing the Wild Best New Course: An(im)alogies of Moral Global Conservation Status of Whales, Dog Training Techniques used by the Problems with Animal Protection Theories, Child and Pawing at the Human/Animal Monstrosity, Ralph Acampora, Hofstra Dolphins and Porpoises, Peter Harrison, General Public of New Zealand, Jessica Joanna Unferdorben, University of Melbourne, Boundary, Anne Fagan, University of University, USA OP281 Southern Cross University, Australia OP284 Walker, Unitec, New Zealand OP287 Australia OP290 Tasmania, Australia OP293

Human-Dolphin Encounters through Reading (and Writing) Animals? Learning Tourism: How can we protect the Exploring Choice and Control The Role of Animal Fantasy Novels in Do lawyers have something to offer animal from Pedagogical Challenges in Literary charasmatic creatures of the sea whose Opportunities Applied in Enrichment and 10 years of Conservation Action - the story Developing Sympathetic Imagination, advocates?, Katrina Sharman, Voiceless, Animal Studies, Susan McHugh, University lives remain largely a mystery?, Elizabeth Training, Sabrina Brando, AnimalConcepts, of the Wildlife Trust of India, Vivek Menon, Heather Kendrick, Central Michigan Australia OP291 of New England, USA OP282 Hawkins, Southern Cross University, Australia The Netherlands OP288 Wildlife Trust of India, India SS014 University, USA OP294 OP285

Preservation of Globally Threatened Birds Using popular culture to promote learning The Relevance of Tronto's An Unsettling Resemblance: Monitoring and the Extraction of Oil and Gas from the in Human-Animal Studies, Annie Potts, Conceptualisation of Care for Care of Pet The controversy of 'Saving Luna', Michael dolphins and chasing whales, Eric Shelton, Big Vasjugansky Bog, Tatyana Blinova, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Dogs, Fiona Slattery, University of Western Parfitt, Mountainside Films, Canada OP295 University of Otago, New Zealand OP286 Tomsk State University, Russian Federation OP283 Sydney, Australia OP289 OP292

1730 - 1800 Break Galleries 1800 - 1930 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, John Paynter Gallery and Lock-Up Gallery (pre-dinner drinks and entertainment) (opened by Carol Adams) Customs House

1930 - 2345 Optional Seminar Series Dinner. Dinner Lecture: Minding Bears in China and Vietnam, Jill Robinson, Animals Asia Foundation, Hong Kong DIN002 SATURDAY 18 JULY 2009 Banquet Room 0800 - 0830 Registration Concert Hall

0830 - 0925 Keynote: What do animals think? Dale Jamieson, New York University, USA KN009 (Moderator: Jill Bough)

0925 - 0930 5 minute changeover Concert Hall T1 Cummings Room T2 Mulubinba Room T3 Newcastle Room T4 UNHTH T5

Equid Encounters I (Moderator: Kirrilly Animal Encounters IV (Moderator: Miranda 0930 - 1030 Zoo Cultures (Moderator: Michael Morris) Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Animals and Art I (Moderator: Chris Hartnett) Thompson) Lawry)

They shoot-up horses, don't they? Thoroughbred The Biopolitics of Endangered Species Game Birds: The Ethics of Shooting Birds for Glazing the Gaze; a human animal encounter, ethics on public display, Glenn Albrecht, Murdoch Preservation, Matt Chrulew, Monash University, Sport, Rebekah Humphreys, Cardiff University, UK Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, Gothenburg University, UK University, Australia OP296 Australia OP299 OP302 OP305

Kangaroo - 'Protected' Wildlife Betrayed AND Urban warfare: horses in the built environment, Contemporary Art and Animals: the Curator - The fallacies of zoo education, Randy Malamud, Insects and their Vicissitudes, Undine Sellbach, Free Living Cat Colonies – Part of the Cityscape. Sandra Burr, University of Canberra, Australia Carer or Keeper?, Rosemary McGoldrick, London Georgia State University, USA OP300 University of Tasmania, Australia OP303 Tolerant Co-existence, Howard Ralph and Teresa OP297 Metropolitan University, UK OP306 Buss-Carden, World League for Protection of Animals, Australia SS015 and SS016

Thoroughbred Breeding Landscapes: A Critique Zoos and the Right Distance: how the Human- Deserving to Die: Hunters’ Selection of Target of Manufactured Idylls and the Practices they Animal Relationship is shapped through Space?, When Pigs Fly, Trevor Weekes, University of Animals, Arianne Carvalhedo Reis, University of Perpetuate, Phil McManus, University of Sydney, Jean Estebanez, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Newcastle, Australia OP307 Otago, New Zealand OP304 Australia OP298 OP301

Banquet Room 1030 - 1055 Morning Tea Concert Hall U1 Cummings Room U2 Mulubinba Room U3 Newcastle Room U4 UNHTH U5

Equid Encounters II (Moderator: Kirrilly Animal Histories III (Moderator: Jennifer Animals, Strategic Communication and the Media 1055 - 1155 Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Animals and Art II (Moderator: Yvette Watt) Thompson) McDonell) (Moderator: Deidre Wicks)

Greening Animal Rights: Finding Common Animal Sex: the Pedagogical Uses of Flora and Ideological Ground for Framing Unified Pit ponies and lessons in social change, Siobhan Becoming Animal - Becoming Human, Jessica Fauna in Purity Education, Christabelle Sethna, Campaign Messages of Environmental and O'Sullivan, University of Melbourne, Australia OP309 Ullrich, University of Arts Berlin, Germany OP317 University of Ottawa, Canada OP311 Animal Protection Movements, Carrie Freeman, Georgia State University, USA OP314

Advocacy for all animals and the environmentalist policy to exterminate wild feral Becoming Animal: Investigating painting New Creatures Made Known: (Re)discovering the Defining Whales: The Role of News Media in the animals, Mark Pearson and , Animal materials and processes that communicate Donkeys and Religion, Jill Bough, The University of King Island Emu, Stephanie Pfennigwerth, Debate, Jill Sweeney, University of Liberation, Australia SS017 current animal/human relations in Australia, Newcastle, Australia OP310 University of Tasmania, Australia OP312 Newcastle, Australia OP315 Vanessa Barbay, Australian National University, Australia OP318

Animal Bodies: Recontextualising the Animal in Images of Dangerous Animals in the Swiss Art, Difficulty, Trust, Steve Baker, University of Speaker withdrawn OP308 Early Modern England, Karen Raber, University of Information Media (1978-2008), Claudine Burton- Central Lancashire, UK OP319 Mississippi, USA OP313 Jeangros, University of Geneva, Switzerland OP316

1155 - 1200 5 minute changeover Cummings Room Concert Hall Mulubinba Room

The Australian Animal Welfare Strategy – a Challenges to the Development and The Elephant and the Indian; the challenges of national blueprint to improve animal welfare, Implementation of Public Policies which seek to fitting 25,000 near-persons into a human 1200 - 1300 John Drinan, Australian Animal Welfare Strategy achieve Animal Welfare Outcomes, Margaret dominated landscape, Vivek Menon, Wildlife Trust Advisory Committee, Australia IS018 (Moderator: Rose, University of NSW, Australia IS020 of India, India IS019 (Moderator: Trevor Weekes) Glenn Albrecht) (Moderator: Dan Lunney) Banquet Room Newcastle Room 1300 - 1345 Lunch Special Lunchtime Round-table: Activist Exchange Concert Hall V1 Cummings Room V2 Mulubinba Room V3 Newcastle Room V4 UNHTH V5

Marine Mammals: Views from Sociology, the Arts Hybrid Creatures and Inverse Representation 1345 - 1445 Companion Animals (Moderator: Christine Lloyd) Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Animals and Art III (Moderator: Deidre Wicks) and Science II (Moderator: Sabrina Brando) (Moderator: Suzie Gibson)

A Brief Survey of Changing Attitudes Toward From Moby Dick to Environmental Cause Literature and the Loss of the Hybrid Creature, People, Pets and Positive , Pauleen ‘Farm’ Animals Through the Eyes of Artists, From Célèbre: How we learned to love Whales, Frank Lorraine Shannon, University of Technology, Bennett, Monash University, Australia OP320 the 17th to 21st Centuries, Yvette Watt, University Zelko, University of Vermont, USA OP323 Sydney, Australia OP326 of Tasmania, Australia OP329

Making the Invisible Visible: The Role of the Governmentality: Pets, Dogs, Companion Nonhuman Animals and Harry Potter: Use or Reclaiming the Animal “Product”: Women Artists Media in Shaping and Constructing the Whaling Minding Bears, Dogs and Cats in Asia, Jill Animals and Their Humans, Fiona Borthwick, Abuse?, Dianne Hayles, University of Western and Animal Stories, Kathryn High, Rensselaer Debate, Donna Fegan, University of Sydney, Robinson, Animals Asia Foundation, China SS018 University of Wollongong, Australia OP321 Sydney, Australia OP327 Polytechnic Institute, USA OP330 Australia OP324

“A magic couple: the dolphin and the child with Friends in high places? Assistive and companion Dog Bites Man – The Poetics of the Inverse At Home with the Animals: A Video-Art autism”: a socio-anthropological analysis of the animals and Australian strata and community Representation, Naama Harel, Shanghai Exploration of Embodied Connection and figure of contemporary imagination, Emmanuel developments, Michele Slatter, Flinders University, International Studies University, Shanghai, China Subjectivity, Julia Schlosser, California State Gouabault, University of Geneva, Switzerland Australia OP322 OP328 University, Northridge, USA OP331 OP325

1445 - 1450 5 minute changeover Concert Hall W1 Cummings Room W2 Mulubinba Room W3 Newcastle Room W4 UNHTH W5

Animal Behaviour and Cognitive Considerations Animal Encounters V (Moderator: Christine The Way We Treat and Care for Wildlife Art and Interspecies Connections (Moderator: 1450 - 1530 Cats and Dogs (Moderator: Pauleen Bennett) (Moderator: Sascha Fink) Lloyd) (Moderator: Jennifer McDonell) Trevor Weekes)

Owner Responses towards and identification of When words and attitudes get in the way of and learning has important Intersectionality of Oppression: Inclusion of Interspecies Collaboration – Making Art Together Fear of Fireworks in Dogs and cats, Mark animal welfare, Sabrina Brando, AnimalConcepts, implications for welfare and conservation, Gisela , Jenny Grubbs, University of Cincinnati, with Nonhuman Animals, Lisa Jevbratt, University Farnworth, Unitec Insititute of Technology, New The Netherland s Kaplan, University of New England, Australia OP332 USA OP334 of California Santa Barbara, USA OP340 Zealand OP336 OP338

Evidence of in recent Cats and Dogs: Electronic Identity and the Commercial Kangaroo Industry, Lindy Stacker, Tissue In-Vitro as a Replacement for the Animal?, cognitive science research: automaticity and Virtual Menageries: A Preliminary History, Jody Animal-Other, Ashley Whamond, Queensland World League for the Protection of Animals, Ionat Zurr, University of Western Australia, Australia attention, William Helton, University of Canterbury, Berland, York University, Canada OP335 College of Art, Griffith University, Australia OP337 Australia OP339 OP341 New Zealan d OP333

Banquet Room 1530 - 1550 Afternoon Tea Concert Hall

1550 - 1645 Closing Lecture: Ethics Without Speciesism, Peter Singer, Princeton Unversity, USA KN010 (Moderator: Rod Bennison)

1645 - 1700 Presentation of Prizes, Announcement of Raffles and Closing Comments Galleries 1800 - 2000 Drinks with Animals and Art Exhibition, Newcastle School of Arts Gallery, Tighes Hill (closing exhibition) SUNDAY 19 JULY 2009

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1100 - 1130 Whale and Dolphin Watching: depart Lee Wharf Bushwalking and Birdwatching OR Canoeing in 1000, return Lee Wharf 1300 1130 - 1200 the Hunter Wetlands: depart hotels 0900, return City Hall 1430 1200 - 1230

1230 - 1300

1300 - 1330

1330 - 1400

1400 - 1430

1430 - 1500 Whale and Dolphin Watching: depart Lee Wharf 1330, return Lee Wharf 1630 1500 - 1530

1530 - 1600

1600 - 1630

YOUR GUIDETOANIMALSANDART OPENINGS

SUN • 2.30pm Opening Cooks Hill Gallery 12 JULY • 5.30pmViewing The Newcastle School

MON • 6.00pm Opening NewcastleArt Space 13 JULY

• 6.00pm Opening The Conservatorium TUES • 6.30pm Opening Lovett Gallery 14 JULY • 7.00pm Opening Forsight Gallery • 7.30pmViewing Back to Back Gallery

• 6.00pm Drinks andViewing Front Room Gallery WED and Foyer (TAFE) 15 JULY • all eveningViewing Shopfront Gallery

• 6.00pm Opening Newcastle RegionArt Gallery THUR • 6.30pm Opening Podspace 16 JULY • 7.00pm Opening Watt Space

FRI • 6.00pm Opening John Paynter Gallery 17 JULY &The Lock Up

SAT • 6.00pm – 8.00pm Newcastle School of Arts 18 JULY Gallery

• City Hub (Next to ConferenceVenue) 24 hour • Shopfront Gallery viewing • TA F E F o y e r