How Can I Participate? Interested in Attending the Conference? • Attend the Conference Lecture Series to be held in If you are interested in attending the Minding Animals March, 2008, in September, 2008, or in March, 2009 Conference and the Protecting the Animals Seminar Series, • Attend the Animals in Film Festival in July, 2009 you can register your interest by visiting our website and by • Come to one of the many exhibitions planned for July following the links. You will be able to formally register your and August, 2009, celebrating Animals in Art attendance and submit abstracts for conference presentation • Participate in the Protecting the Animals Seminar (as presentations or posters) online. Series (details below) • Attend the Public Lecture at the Newcastle Civic http://www.mindinganimals.com Theatre in the evening on 17 July, 2009 Email: [email protected] • Join in our conference social programme • Attend the Conference Dinner on 15 July, 2009, and If you are unable to get online, you may like to provide us hear our guest speaker for the evening, the esteemed with your details and we can send you a registration form. If The Animals and Society (Australia) Nobel Laureate Professor JM Coetzee so, please fill in the form below and send to: • Register for the conference where you will be able to Study Group and hear our celebrated plenary speakers, or participate The Minding Animals Conference Secretariat The University of Newcastle in the many planned concurrent sessions, workshops PO Box 116 and panel discussions, or visit our academic poster Salamander Bay NSW 2317 present displays AUSTRALIA • And, if you represent a community group, such as an The 2009 International Academic animal advocacy or environmental organisation, or a Name: corporate body, you may wish to establish a and Community Conference on conference display booth Institution: Animals and Society: Address: Minding Animals

Post/Zip code: We invite you to join us between 13 and 19 July, 2009, to discuss, learn and Protecting the Animals Seminar Series Country: consider the human interrelationships with our A key aspect of the conference will be the Protecting the Phone number: nonhuman animal kin Animals Seminar Series. The Seminars will be run by animal advocacy and environmental organisations and Fax number: key government bodies. The seminars will consider such varied topics as protecting whales, moon bears, sharks Email: and the great apes, the commericialisation of wildlife, The conference will be a meat-free and smoke-free event. animal advocacy, veterinary practices, and animals and The conference will also strive to be a carbon-neutral event, the law. Like the conference, you will need to register with a percentage of all registration fees contributed to for the seminar series, so please visit the website (full appropriate local environmental charities to partially offset your conference delegates will be able to attend the series as carbon usage part of their conference package) Who Are the Plenary Speakers? Possible Topics for Discussion The conference is fortunate to have some of the most • Nonhuman Animals throughout History • Fur, Fashion and Cosmetics celebrated and gifted animal scholars and advocates as • Indigenous Traditions and Nonhuman Animals • Nonhuman Animals in Asian Medicine plenary speakers, including some of the founders of the • Ecological Imperialism and Objectification of Nature • Nonhuman Animals in Sport and Entertainment modern animal movement. They include: • Settler Societies and Ecological Collapse • Animals in War • Professor Carol Adams • Nonhuman Animals in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism • Animals and Violence • Professor Emeritus Marc Bekoff • Nonhuman Animals in East Asian Religions • Commercialisation, Management and Protection of • Professor J Baird Callicott • Nonhuman Animals in Christianity, Islam and Judaism Wildlife • Nobel Laureate Professor JM Coetzee • Philosophical Foundations and Interspecies Justice • Wildlife Tourism • Professor Dale Jamieson • Liberation, Rights and Welfare • Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Conservation • Professor Val Plumwood • Valuing Animals Planning • Professor Emeritus Tom Regan • Continental Philosophy • Human & Wildlife Conflicts – animals out of place • Distinguished Professor Bernard Rollin • Nonhuman Animals and the Law • Environmentalism, Conservation and Animals • Professor Andrew Rowan • Protection, Personhood and the Law • Zoos, Menageries and Wildlife Parks • Professor James Serpell • Funding Animal Advocacy and Campaigns • Habitat Fragmentation • Professor Peter Singer • Animal Liberation, Community Action and the Law • Landscape Conservation and Nonhuman Animals • Professor Emeritus Michael Soulé • Government Inaction and Animal Exploitation • Wildlife Animal Rescue and Road Kill • Professor Paul Waldau • Community Partnerships for Animal Protection • Wildlife Threats and Extinctions • Professor Jennifer Wolch • Protecting the Great Apes • Urban Wildlife • Marine Mammal Protection and the IWC • Animals in the Built Environment What are the Conference Objectives? • CITES and International Law • Wildlife Translocation & Predator Reintroductions • Nonhuman Animals and Politics • Measuring and Sustaining Biodiversity The conference has six major themes and objectives: • What is an Animal? • Nonhuman Animals and Home Design • To reassess the relationship between the animal and • Nonhuman Animals as Social Constructs • Companion and Farm Animals environmental movements in light of climate change • What’s in a name – feral, invasive and pest constructions • Animal Assisted Therapies and other jointly-held threats and concerns • Natural Kinds and Species • The Human Nonhuman Animal Bond • To examine how humans identify and represent • Animal Geographies – space, place and being • Nonhuman Animals and the Disabled nonhuman animals in art, literature, music, science, • Profound Interspecies Encounters • Nonhuman Animals in Everyday Human Life and in the media and on film • Animals in Art • Companion Animal Welfare, Rights and Protection • How, throughout history, the objectification of non- • Animals in Literature – fiction and poetry • Nonhuman Animals and Children human animals and nature in science and society, • Animal in Film and Television • Families, Emotions and Grief religion and philosophy, has led to the abuse of non- • Animals and Music • Animal Welfare and the Pound human animals and how this has since been inter- • Nonhuman Animals, Race and Gender Issues • Boarding Kennels, Catteries and Welfare preted and evaluated • Ecofeminism and Nonhuman Animals • Down on the Farm – batteries, sheds and feedlots • To examine how the lives of humans and companion • Nonhuman Animals as Commodities • Veterinary Practice and the Care of Animals and domesticated nonhuman animals are intertwined, • Vegetarianism, Veganism and the Human Diet • Disease Crises and Cross-species Infections and how science, human and veterinary medicine • Bushmeat • Nonhuman Animals and Biosecurity utilise these important connections • Hunting, Trading and Collecting Nonhuman Animals • Animals and Climate Change • How the study of animals and society can better inform • Experimentation on Nonhuman Animals • Animals and Disaster Relief both the scientific study of animals and community • University Ethics Committees • Planetary Chaos and the Future of Human Nonhuman activism and advocacy • Nonhuman Animals and the Education System Animal Relations • And how science and community activism and advoc- acy can inform the study of nonhuman animals and society