1 March 2 10:30-11:45 POND INLET Resistance, Empathy, Compassion Chair, Paul Hamilton “Organize & Resist with Farmed Animals: Prefiguring Anti-Speciesist/Anti-Anthropocentric Cities” Darren Chang “Caring for Istanbul's Street Animals: Empathy, Altruism, & Rage” Kimberly Hart, SUNY Buffalo State “Building Compassionate Societies: Challenging Structural Violence in the Animal-Industrial Complex” Terry Gibbs, Cape Breton University & Tracey Harris, Cape Breton University 11:45- 1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:50 CONCURRENT SESSIONS POND INLET DIFFERENT HISTORIES Chair, Tore Fougner “Dinah, A Gorilla Biography” Tracy McDonald, McMaster University “The Land of Meat and Potatoes? Animal Agriculture & Veganism in the Irish Discourse” Corey Wrenn, Monmouth University SANKEY CHAMBER LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE Chair: Stefan Dolgert “For the Love of the Finite Animal” Sanja Dejanovic, Concordia University "Cattle, Chattel, & Capital: Hendiadyses of the Alimentary Atlantic" Andrew Kettler, University of Toronto & Charlton Yingling, University of Louisville 1:50 -2:00 BREAK 2 2:00-2:30 POND INLET KEYNOTE SPEAKER Animals, Capitalism, Resistance David Nibert 2:30-2:40 BREAK 2:40-3:40pm POND INLET Bearing Witness, Providing Refuge Chair, Atsuko Matsuoka “Bearing Witness to Animal Suffering Worldwide: The Growth of the Save Movement” Anita Krajnc, Toronto Pig Save “Anthropomorphizing Wildlife” Chantal Theijin, Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge 3:40-3:50 BREAK 3:50-5:20 POND INLET Sanctuary Chair, Catherine Ens, Niagara Action for Animals “More Than Meats the Eye” Jenny Brown, Co-founder, Woodstock Farm Sanctuary “Go Vegan World & The Animals of Eden” Sandra Higgins, Director, Eden Farm Sanctuary; Go Vegan World 5:20-5:40 “North America’s 1st Political Party Dedicated Solely to Protecting Animals & the Environment” Liz White Animal Alliance/ Animal Protection Party of Canada 5:40pm Closing remarks - John Sorenson .