3rd MINDING ANIMALS CONFERENCE · Sushil Ashram, New Delhi 16:00 - 16:10: Speech by Mr. Shatrughun...

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.

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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)

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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.

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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

Worship, Lotus Temple

Registration and Welcome

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 –

16:40

Interfaith Programme at the Lotus Temple represented by several faiths, including Baha'i,

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 –

17:20

Multi-Faith Prayer Service by Baha’i House of Worship (Lotus Temple)

17:20 Conference Delegates transported back to Conventions Centre, JNU

19.00 –

22.00

Icebreaker Night (Cocktails and Snacks) (Convention Centre

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

Seminar Series I

(Archive Room)

Moderated by Arpan

Sharma

Animals and Religion

(Auditorium 2)

Moderated by

Mahalakshmi R.

Thinking About Eating

Animals (Lecture Hall

1) Moderated by Brett

Mizelle

Animal

Experimentation

(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Nicolas

Delon

Women and Animals

(Lecture Hall 3)

Moderated by Fiona

Probyn-Rapsey

Animals and Art I

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by Jessica

Ullrich

14:00 Christine Townend- for

Help in Suffering

Animal Shelter 278

Deborah Nadal- Why is

Kamadhenu on the

street? The religious

and cultural reasons of

straying in India 229

Krishna Pathak- Why

Vegetarianism: An

Argument for Animals’

Right to Life 228

Kathrin Herrmann-

Animal

experimentation:

openness, public

engagement and public

concerns 51

Lisa Kemmerer-

Women and Animals—

What’s That About?

308

John Sheckter- The Art

of John Wolseley: A

Postcolonial

Ornithology 53

14:30 Rosemary Austen and

Steve Garlick- for

Possumwood Wildlife

Inc. 287

Candace

Laughinghouse-

Decolonization and

Intersectionality

Between Animals and

Religion: A Womanist

Response About

Theological Deficiency,

Feminist Theory and

Aesthetics 181

Paula Arcari- “[It]

makes me feel happy

to be eating it”:

Capturing complexity

in constructions and

practices of ethical and

sustainable meat 106

Siobhan O’ Sullivan et

al- Animal Ethics

Committees,

Regulation and

Informed Decision

Making 26

Andrea Petitt- "Now

that I have cattle, I am

a real woman!":

Empowerment

strategies among the

cowgirls of the Kalahari

91

Yvette Watt- Artists

and Animals: a survey

41

15:00 Clementien Pauws- for

Karuna Society for

Animals and Nature 46

Hamid Ahmad et al -

Ritual Halal Slaughter

and Animal Welfare 12

Alma Massaro et al -

Labelling meat as

“stunned” and “not

stunned” 135

Adam See- The Ethics

of Animal

Experimentation: from

John Dewey to the

Present 71

Elena Cohen- "I'd

Rather Go Naked":

PETA, Feminisms and

Sex Work 145

Rene Marqez- Positive

Reinforcement Dog

Training as

Postcolonial, an Artist's

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

and friendship of Christian, Ace Bourke and Tony Rendall. Ace will be the

dinner speaker on the final day of the conference.

Animals and the Buddha Introduced by Kim Stallwood

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

(Archive Room)

Moderated by Lisa

Kemmerer

Thinking About

Animals (Auditorium 2)

Moderated by Jeff

Sebo

Animal Law and Public

Policy (Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by Arif

Yusof

Animals and Culture

(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Amrit

Menon


(Lecture Hall 3)

Moderated by Hamid

Ahmad

Animals and Literature

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by

Krishnendu Mondal

10:00 Charlotte Cressey -

Charlotte Perkins

Gilman: Progenitor of

Ecofeminism 134

Will Kymlicka et al -

Farm Sanctuaries:

From Refuge to

Intentional

Community? 177

Angeline Siegel -

Practicing the New Art

of Science: Seeing the

whole through the lens

of mind-body medicine

146

Ana Cristina Ramirez -

Sidesaddle spins.

Escaramuzas charras

and their horses 217

Sangmu Thendup -

Animals in Early

Buddhism 294

Joan Gordon - The

Transformative Animal

Tales of Kij Johnson 54

10:30 Erin Maclver - What's

in a Name?':

Relationships between

Women and Cattle in

Northern Botswana 79

Rod Bennison -

Ecological Inclusion -

an ethic and way of life

253

Raquel Garcia Hermida

et al - Think Positive:

regulating the sale and

keeping of exotic

animals as pets 40

Harry Wels et al - So

Zoopolis! Explorations

in creating human

animal societies 14

Susan Crane - How

Francis of Assisi

Changed Christian

Attitudes about Eating

Meat 20

Subhalakhsmi Gooptu -

Fable and

Representation:

Animal worlds of

'Beastly Tales from

Here and There' and

'The Fabulous Feminist'

85

11:00 Jessica Ison - Eat the

meat: queer normality

and animal sterility 198

Morten Tonnessen -

What is animal

agency? 232

Kelly Dhru - Exploring

the gap between legal

rights and duties in the

context of the laws

preventing cruelty to

Animals: case study of

India 267

Erika Cudworth - On

Ambivalence and

Resistance: Carnism

and Diet in Multi-

species Households 33

Asmaa El Maaroufi -

Animal Slaughter in the

Name of Allah –

pathways concerning

animal ethics in Islam

285

Anshu Gagal - Animals

have ‘no

spokesperson’: A

Critical Study of

Atwood’s Surfacing

and Ghosh’s The

Hungry Tide 185

11:30 Daniel de Almeida

Pinto Kirjner -

Masculinity and

Violence: a Culture of

Predation 11

Lauren Gazzola -

Words Mean Nothing -

Action is Everything

277

Ricardo Fajardo - The

Animal Protection

Index 102

Joseph Lancia - Integral

theory of

consciousness,

psychoanalytic thought

and their implications

for interspecies

relationships 83

Niharika Sankrityayan -

Visual Representation

of Power and

Authority: Varaha in

Chalukya Art, Religion

and History 286

Joshua Jordan - Poetry

in Human-Animal

Style: The Examples of

Henri Michaux and

Francis Ponge 187

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

Principles of Animal Welfare (Lecture Hall 1)

Introduced and Moderated by Clive Phillips

Anindya Sinha 306 - Scio Ergo Sum:

Experientially Acquired Cognitive Knowledge of the

Self in a Nonhuman Primate (Lecture Hall 2)

Introduced and Moderated by Mayukh Chatterjee

Mahalakshmi R. 334 – Understanding the

Goddesses within the Nature-Culture Paradigm

(Lecture Hall 3) Introduced and Moderated by

Vivek Menon



Policy: Trends (Archive

Room) Moderated by

Jagdish Kishwan

Documentaries

(Auditorium 2)

Introduced by

Clementien Pauws and

Eliza Muirhead

Wildlife Welfare and

Conservation Science

(Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by

Abhishek Narayanan

Sentience and Well-

being (Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Jeff

Sebo

Relational Ethics

(Lecture Hall 3)

Moderated by Nicolas

Delon


(Committee Hall)

Moderated by NVK

Ashraf

15:00 Nuria Almiron -

Lobbying against

compassion. The

political economy

behind discourses and

policies on nonhumans

66

The Plastic Cow

Introduced by

Clementien Pauws

Aniruddha Majumder -

Long term monitoring

of two big-cats - the

tiger (Panthera tigris)

and leopard (Panthera

pardus) - in a tropical

deciduous forest,

Central India 317

Penelope Coulter -

Early life histories,

trauma and

psychological

wellbeing in captive

gorillas 325

Beril Sözmen -

Relations and moral

obligations towards

other animals 49

A K Merchant - Animal

Welfare – an interfaith

perspective with

specific focus on the

Baha’i Faith 337

15:30 Carol McKenna -

Applying Maslow’s

hierarchy of human

needs to identify

improvements for

animal protection

legislation and to

explain human barriers

to ending animal abuse

188

Operation Kimberley

Miinimbi Introduced

by Eliza Muirhead

Shikha Shrivastava et al

- Fishes of the Flyash

Discharge Pond 292

Gemma Cardner et al -

Learn more about the

science of animal

sentience 96

Hector Yan - Human-

animal ethics

according to the

relational approach: an

exposition and a

critique 18

Umesh Kumar Khute -

Forest and wilderness:

Animals in folk myths

246


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



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



Documentaries

(Auditorium 2)

Introduced by various

people

Animals and Culture

(Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by Uma

Athale



(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by

Krishnendu Mondal

The Zoo and Animal

Confinement (Lecture

Hall 3) Moderated by

Will Kymlicka

Film, Music,

Performance

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by Tapajit

Mondal

10:00 Highway Wilding

Introduced by Rod

Bennison

and

What’s for Dinner?

Introduced by Kim

Stallwood

NVK Ashraf - The

cultural, religious and

mythological drivers

influencing the

depiction of the lion

and tiger in Aryan and

Dravidian literary

traditions 222

Abhishek Narayanan -

Slithering Serpents:

Strayed or Synurbised!

323

Shubhobroto Ghosh -

Zoos : preserves or

prisons? 220

Martin Ullrich - Music

and the zoon politikon:

A history of human

music for non-human

listeners and its

political implications

125

10:30 Veg or No Veg? India

at the Crossroads

Introduced by Kim

Stallwood

and

Donkey Talk

Introduced by Susi

Arnott

and

Staying Alive - donkeys,

drought and women’s

work in Mwingi, Kenya

Introduced by Susi

Arnott

and

LEGS: the key steps

(Livestock Emergency

Guidelines and

Standards) Introduced

by Susi Arnott

Hanneke J. Nijland et al

- Farmed Animals:

Cultural and Personal

Clusters of Reasoning

and Behaviour 68

Ajay Bijoor et al -

Friends turning foes:

community

interventions to

manage population of

free-ranging dogs in

Spiti, Himachal

Pradesh 50

Joseph Reginald et al -

‘Born to Fly’ Campaign-

a destiny towards the

welfare of parakeets

293

Yuan-Chih Lung - Beast

Film-in 1930’s

Shanghai : with Shun

Pao’s Screen Section as

its center 64

11:00 Stephen F. Eisenman -

Capitalist Crisis and

Relational Identity - A

New Path Toward

Animal Liberation 137

Baiju Raj Moonamkutti

Veetil et al - Seasonal

management of a

rescue facility and

enrichment utilisation

by the rehabilitated

rescued sloth bears

(Melursus ursinus) in

captivity, Agra, Uttar

Pradesh, India 183

Shekhar Niraj et al - A

focus on wild animals

as pets in India 221

Ilda Teresa Castro -

Animal in the Movies:

a tool for the change?

275; includes the short

film Ecceidade

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



Animals and Culture

(Archive Room)

Moderated by Amrit

Menon

Animals and Art II

(Auditorium 2)

Moderated by Yvette

Watt

Animals and the

Humanities (Lecture


Nicolas Delon



(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Alice

Hovorka

Elephants I (Lecture


Vivek Menon

Considering Meat

(Committee Hall 3)

Moderated by Paola

Fossatti

14:00 Simon Coghlan -

Recognising

Nonhuman Morality 73

Jessica Ullrich - How to

Explain Pictures to a

live Animal? Animals

as Art Audience 30

Rod Bennison -

Nonhuman Animals in

the European Early

Modern Period and

Enlightenment: rights,

duties, abuses, and a

proto-inclusive

worldview 255

Kelly Somers - Of Culls

and Kills: what do

badgers and sharks

have in common 224

Nishant Srinivasaiah -

Of Elephants and Men:

My Conversations with

J.K. Dobi 234

Brett Mizelle -

Contesting and

Transforming the

Making of Meat in

Antebellum America

166

14:30 Andrew Woodhall -

Taking Nonhuman

Perspectives Seriously:

The Importance of

Non-Anthropocentrism

for Nonhuman Animals

103

Hector Yan - A Rich

Conception of the

Surface': On Feng

Zikai's 'Paintings to

Protect Life' 17

Rainer Ebert - The

wrongness of killing

animals 97

Chandrima Home et al

- Commensal in

Conflict: Livestock

depredation by free-

ranging dogs and its

implications for large

carnivore conservation

in a fragile ecosystem

163

Andrew Mclean - A

Humane Approach to

Captive Elephant

Training 289

Sune Borkfelt - Reading

Slaughter:

Concealment,

Empathy, and Literary

Abattoirs 162


Donald Broom 57 - Concepts of Sentience in

relation to Humans and other Animal Welfare

(Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and Moderated by Clive

Phillips

Hansen T Prem 321 - Animal Welfare in Disasters

(Lecture Hall 2) Introduced and Moderated by Kim

Stallwood

Heather Bacon 303 - One Health, One Welfare:

strengthening the role of the veterinarian in India


N.V.K. Ashraf



Women and Animals

(Archive Room)

Moderated by Erika

Cudworth

Workshop 1 Animals

and Philosophy

(Auditorium 2) Led by

Will Kymlicka and Jeff

Sebo

Animals and the

Humanities (Lecture


Rishi Kumar

Legal Standing (Lecture


Carlos Federico Ramos

de Jesus

Animals and Education

(Lecture Hall 3)

Moderated by Tara

Gandhi


(Committee Hall)

Moderated by Lisa

Kemmerer

16:30 Lucy Berglund -

Machines and vessels:

challenging the denial

of mind and inferiority

of the body in non-

human animals and

women 205

A workshop with an

open-ended discussion

without objectives, but

allowing people to

explore topics of joint

interest. Notes will be

taken and provided to

the relevant Minding

Animals Study Circle.

This workshop will

explore animals and

philosophy.

Andre Krebber -

Picturing the Nether

Life: Maria Merian’s

Art of Entomology and

Science’s Troubles in

Grasping the Animal

100

Paola Fossatti -

Animals as property

and their legal

protection ‘mankind-

interest shaped’ 87

Karin Dinker - Moral

Landscape in Relation

to Animals in Swedish

Primary Schools 288

Neha Singh - The

Animal Attendants of

Siva and Parvati 262

17:00 Susi Arnott et al -

Donkeys, drought and

women's work; a case-

study from Mwingi,

Kenya 182

Priyanka Nirupam -

Human Ecology in

Panchatantra:

Hybridity and

Knowledge 264

Christine Townend -

Towards an

Understanding of the

violence of the war

waged on animals 60

Sy Woon - Speciesism

and Ethical

Considerations

Regarding Animal Use

in Veterinary Education

207

Ravina Meena -

Pashupati- Shiva as the

lord of animals 243

17:30 Jessica Walker - Do

males and females

differ in their

perceptions of whether

animals can experience

grief and other

emotions? et al 37

Colin Salter - Whales,

Whaling and Animal

Nationalism 107

Danielle Duffield - Cats

in the Courtroom: The

Enforcement of Animal

Welfare Law in New

Zealand and Strategies

for Reform 151

Muria Roberts - A

model for

implementing

multispecies education

- case study in

Indonesia 245

Stela Mary Varghese -

Serpent Uncoiling:

Unraveling the Nagas

of the Jatakas 230

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



Panel (Auditorium 2)

Introduced by Rod

Bennison

Animals and Culture

(Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by Erica

Fudge

Women and Animals

(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Erika

Cudworth

Elephants II (Lecture


Vivek Menon

Animals and Culture

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by Tara

Gandhi

10:30 Siobhan O’Sullivan

Christine Townend

Yvette Watt

Naty Guerrero Diaz -

The past, present and

future of animal

activism in Australia

Angeline Siegel -

Fleshing Out the

Unspoken: How

scientists describe

intersubjective

moments with animal

participants and its

relationship with

scientific behavior 63

Suchitra Gadad -

Culture and Traditional

Beliefs that Influence

the Community and

the Welfare of their

Donkeys 259

Allison Mayberry -

Social dimensions of

human-elephant

conflict: A case study

of Botswana's Boteti

region 99

Leonardo Caffo et al -

Food as social object:

ontology, ethics and

art 171

11:00 Sandra Swart - Monkey

Wars: the Politics of

Primates in South

Africa 15

Lara Drew - Embodied

Learning Processes in

Animal Activism 111

Ramkumar

Kalyanasundaram -

People’s Attitude

Towards Elephant

Conservation: insights

from one of India’s

highest human

elephant conflict

regions 324

Elizabeth Allgood et al

- Beyond GDP: True

Wellbeing for Animals

and People 290

11:30 Peter Chen - Animal

Protection Policy in

Australia 31

Jessica Walker -

Tikanga Māori: Using

animal cadavers for

teaching emergency

animal euthanasia in

New Zealand 38

Spare Karani Bithoo et al -

Cobra and My Cultural

Prestige 268

12:00 – 13:00 Invited Talks – Session 3

Vinay Srivastava 329 – Jainism and Animals


Rakesh Batabyal

Tara Gandhi 276 - Mythical Creatures in Traditional

South Asian Art (Lecture Hall 2) Introduced and

Moderated by Yvette Watt

Cindy Milburn 301 - Combatting the collapse of

compassion (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced and

Moderated by Vivek Menon



Animals and Culture

(Archive Room)

Moderated by Tapjit

Bhattacharya

Documentaries

(Auditorium 2)

Introduced by Sailesh

Rao


Seminar Series II

(Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by Arpan

Sharma



(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Rishi

Kumar

Animals and the

Humanities (Lecture


Upasana Ganguly

Animals and the

Humanities

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by

Krishnendu Mondal

14:00 Anu Pande -

Appropriating Animals

in Literature: the

Sentimental versus the

Rational Approach 118

Cowspiracy Introduced

by Sailesh Rao

Nuggehalli Jayasimha -

for Humane Society

International India 316

Amrit Menon et al - Of

Hornbills and Humans:

taking the middle

ground to conserving

cultures and wildlife

310

Mihailis Diamantis -

Animals Minding Us:

Ethical Implications 59

Kristin Armstrong -

Oma The ontology of

sheep herding:

socialisation and status

of being in past

societies 36

14:30 Otto Latva - When the

Giant Squid Revealed

Itself – Reactions to

Record Numbers of

Giant Squids Found

Near Newfoundland

Between 1870–1881

129

Cindy Milburn - for the

International Fund for

Animal Welfare 331

Geraldine Jain- The

Living Free Campaign

172

Fiona Probyn-Rapsey -

Morbid Thinking: Five

ways to kill a dingo 108

Simon Coghlan - The

Dignity of Animals 74

15:00 Hanna Wirman -

Uncomfortable

resemblance in online

animal-technology

videos 273

Vivek Menon - for the

Wildlife Trust of India

330

Spare Stephen Hobden et al -

The Posthuman Way of

War 32

Asmaa El Maaroufi -

Animals as a Source for

Organ Transplantation

– ethics of

xenotransplantation. A

Muslim Viewpoint 284



Lisa Kemmerer 309 - Nooz - Ending Zoo

Exploitation (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and

Moderated by Rod Bennison

Jayantha Jayawardene 328 - Animals and Culture


Rakesh Batabyal

Nuggehalli Jayasimha for the Humane Society

International 319 - Welfare of Intensively Confined

Farm Animals raised for Eggs, Meat and Dairy

(Lecture Hall 3) Introduced and Moderated by Kim

Stallwood


Animals and Culture

(Archive Room)

Moderated by

Abhishek Narayanan

Animals and Culture

(Auditorium 2)

Moderated by Cindy

Milburn

A Special Session for

Spanish Speakers

(Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by Ana

Cristina Ramirez


Policy (Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Jagdish

Kishwan


(Lecture Hall 3)

Moderated by Sneha

Das

Animals and the

Humanities

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by Alice

Hovorka

17:00 Thomas Robert -

Darwinian Ethology

and Deep Ecology 105

Barbara Slee - Cultural

shifts and the welfare

of wild animals - the

case of trade

restrictive measures as

a means to defend

public morality and

protect commercially

hunted seals 313

Brenda Yesenia Olalde

Vázquez - Animal’s

Law: "When men

respect others animals,

there will respect

among men" 120

Morten Tonnessen -

Mentions of animals in

Norwegian political

party programs 231

Reiko Ohnuma - An

Elephant Good to

Think: The Buddha in

Parileyyaka Forest 52

Lauren van Patter -

Feral Cats and the

Nature of Belonging 88

17:30 Fabiola Leyton -

Factory Farming ,

Global Bioethics and

Public Policies: New

Challenges 191

James Myers - Animal

Conversations 168

Jaime Vieyra - Towards

a multi-species culture

216

Tarunya Shankar -

Time to Raise the Bar:


Policy 241

Deepak Yadav -

Religious Importance

of a Canine: An Enquiry

into Mahabharata 203

Kausik Banerjee et al -

Leonine tale: recovery

and future of the

Asiatic lion in India 212

18:00 Charolotte Cressey -

From Separation to

Wholeness: Embodied

Love as the Antidote to

Disembodied Logic 270

Christine Lloyd - Sing a

song of animals a

pocket full of rights

124

Luis Lopez - Becoming

animal: indiscernible

space in Martha

Pacheco's painting 82

Helen Proctor et al -

Wiggling ears and

emotional states; what

do ear postures tell us

about the emotions of

dairy cows? 127

Virendra Singh Bithoo -

Animals: Symbol of

Gods and Goddesses

identity in Dilwara Jain

temple 265

Peter Singleton - The

whipping of race

horses in New South

Wales Australia 238


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)


Regional Contexts II

(Archive Room)

Moderated by

Aniruddha Majumder

Workshop 2 Women

and Animals


Lisa Kemmerer and

Lori Gruen

Animals and Culture

(Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by Muria

Roberts


Seminar Series III

(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Jeff

Sebo

Canines (Lecture Hall

3) Moderated by

Abhishek Narayanan



(Committee Hall)

Moderated by

Krishnendu Mondal

10:30 Felix Eikelback - Anti-

Cruelty Legislation in

Colonial India: Civilizing

Mission and Beyond

116

A workshop with an



allowing people to






This workshop will

explore animals,

women, gender and

feminism. It will also

consider the ethic of

care.

Maki Eguchi

Rashamen, a Woman

with a Smell of Beast:

Gendered

Representation of

Sheep in Modern

Japanese Literature

123

Ken Shapiro - for

Animals and Society

Institute 150

Carol McKenna -

Working dog breed

standards, hunt dog

training and the

perpetuation of animal

baiting 189

Namrata Anirudh -

Sleeping patterns and

social interactions in

captive slow lorises

(Nycticebus spp.) under

rehabilitation:

assessing proximity

and sleeping site use as

an aspect of sociality

for welfare and

conservation 154

11:00 Alexandra McEwan - A

Critique of Australia’s

Animal Protection

Framework Adopting

Pierre Bourdieu’s

Notion of ‘Field’ 153

Grazyna Witkowska -

Familiar human-animal

relationships as a path

towards transforming

human perceptions

and actions 161

Susan Eirich - for

Earthfire Institute -

Seeing Wildlife with

New Eyes: Wild

Animals as Individual

Beings 70

Michele Merritt - Dogs

and Dualisms: What

the Humanities Can

Learn from Canine

Cognition 144

Steve Garlick - Views of

the environment:

Rational epistemology

and relational wildlife

knowledge systems 10

11:30 Arif Fahmi Md Yusof -

The role of Malay

custom in the early

development of laws

relating to animals in

Malaysia 196

Li Jianjun - Confucian

perspective on

relationship between

human and animals

155

Norma Alvares and

Varda Mehrotra - for

the Federation of

Indian Animal

Protection

Organisations - Building a Movement

For Animal Protection:

The Experience from

India 335

Alwin Devaraj -

Community Canines

and Rabies 252

Dan Perry - Cats and

Iguanas 260

12:00 Spare Deke Weaver - The

Unreliable Bestiary: An

Ark of Stories and

Performances 55

Chaitanya Koduri - for

People for the Ethical

Treatment of Animals

India - Fighting Climate

Change With Vegan

Foods in Our National

Climate Change Policy

332

Lisa Warden -

Dogopolis? On liberty,

captivity, intervention

and canine citizenship

among India’s free-

roaming dog

community 130

Geraldine Jain -

Botulism- Can we

paralyse the paralyser?

158



Kim Stallwood 244 - Topsy, An Elephant We Must

Never Forget (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and

Moderated by Rod Bennison

Princess Auguste Marie Philippa von Bayern of

Munich 305 – Feathered apes: convergent evolution

of intelligence in crows and primates (Lecture Hall 2)

Introduced and Moderated by Vivek Menon

MK Ranjitsinh 312 - Conservation Ethos, A Legacy

of the Indian Republic (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced

and Moderated by Tara Gandhi


Workshop 3 Animals

and Activism


Kim Stallwood and

Arpan Sharma

Elephants III (Lecture


Vivek Menon



(Lecture Hall 2)

Moderated by Alice

Hovorka

Animals and Culture

(Lecture Hall 3)

Moderated by

Upasana Ganguly

Animals and Culture

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by Sy

Woon

14:30 A workshop with an



allowing people to






This workshop will ask

the question: What can

India learn from animal

rights campaigns in

other countries and

vice versa?

Helena Telkanranta et

al - Facilitating changes

in public policy on

training and

management of

captive elephants:

experiences from the

Nepal programme of

Elephant Experts 110

Steve Garlick et al -

Psychological

extinction in regional

populations of

Australian kangaroos

21

Gonzalo Villanueva

Peter Singer and ‘the

Bible’ of the Animal

Movement 44

Ramesh Kumar

Perumal - Compassion

for the Community and

its Change in Behaviour

Brings Significant

Change to Donkey

Welfare in the Brick

Kilns in Mehsana, India

257

15:00 Susan Curry - Empathy

for the Elephants:

Animal Sounds and

Sympathy in Greco-

Roman Culture and

Today 104

Valli-Laurente Fraser-

Celin et al - Farmer-

African Wild Dog

Relations in the

Kalahari, Botswana 81

Hongsheng Wang -

Horse and Chinese

Civilization 48

Kelsi Nagy -

Understanding

contemporary cattle

welfare in India: gods,

scavengers and hybrid-

beasts 214

15:30 Sreedhar

Vijayakrishnan - Blind

Men and the Elephant:

unravelling the cultural

ecology of a complex

relationship between

two most intelligent

species 194

Mayukh Chatterjee et

al - A Many Splendored

World: insights into the

life of a primate of

least concern, the

Bonnet Macaque

(Macaca radiata) from

long term studies 327

Palasree Krittania -

Animals and Culture: A

Constitutional Law

Perspective 29

Jessica Walker et al -

Behavioural responses

of dogs and cats to the

loss of an animal

companion – owner

reports 39


16:30 – 18:30 Panel Sessions

Panel: The Green Scare (Auditorium 2)

Introduced and Moderated by Lori

Gruen

Panel: Wildlife Conservation and

Animal Studies (Committee Hall)

Introduced and Moderated by

Mayukh Chatterjee

ICAS Oceania Roundtable Discussion:

Particularities and Peculiarities of the

Animal Other in Oceania -- Roundtable

Discussion 197 (Lecture Hall 1)

Introduced and Moderated by Jessica

Ison

Panel: Buddhist and Himalayan Animal

Studies (Lecture Hall 3) Introduced

and Moderated by Catherine

Schuetze

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



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

(Archive Room)

Moderated by Gonzalo

Villanueva

Documentaries

(Auditorium 2)

Introduced by Rod

Bennison

Animals and Culture

(Lecture Hall 1)

Moderated by

Aniruddha Majumder

Workshop 4 Animals,

Sentience, the Law

and Public Policy

(Lecture Hall 2) Led by

Ricardo Fajardo and

Elena Cohen

Animals and the

Humanities (Lecture


Morten Tonnessen

Animals and the

Humanities

(Committee Hall)

Moderated by Krishna

Pathak

10:30 Roberto Marchesini -

Animal Epiphany -

Culture as a Revelation

56

Saving Luna

Introduced by Rod

Bennison

Martha Geiger - Animal

Bodies and

Performativity:

Exploring the Lives of

Donkeys in Botswana

80

A workshop with an



allowing people to






This workshop will

explore animals,

sentience, the law and

public policy.

Sophie Greger - Mind

the gap! The need to

combine animal

activism and animal

rights theory 133

Guo Peng - Against the

Denial of Animal

Language 86

11:00 Iris Bergmann -

Thoroughbred racing

and the sustainability

of welfare concepts

206

Kelly Somers - We too

are animals: John

Gray’s anti-humanism

225

Heta Lähdesmäki -

Wolf agency. Problem

wolves in the late 20th

century Finland 128

Markus Vinnari -

Reframing

sustainability to

include non-human

animals and plants 67

11:30 Spare Camilla Eriksson -

Farmer-cow-wolf

interactions in Sweden:

Emotional ties and

animal imaginaries 199

Nicolas Delon - The X-

Phi Companion to

Animal Ethics 114

Susan Rustic -

Transforming Human

Identity: Encounters in

the Classroom through

Animal Eyes 115


Dale Jamieson 315 – Is Animals Studies Good for

Animals? (Auditorium 2) Introduced and

Moderated by Lori Gruen

Erach Bharucha et al 307 – Ethnobiological

Knowledge: a trigger in modern conservation

education (Lecture Hall 1) Introduced and

Moderated by Vivek Menon

Sunanda Madhumbhandara 333- The Significance

of Ahimsa and Animal Welfare in Buddhism


Rakesh Batabyal


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




(Archive Room)

Moderated by Vivek

Menon

Workshop 5 Animals,

Art and Aesthetics


Yvette Watt and

Jessica Ullrich

Animals and the

Humanities (Lecture


Cindy Milburn

Animal and the

Humanities (Lecture


Lori Gruen


(Lecture Hall 3)

Moderated by

Aniruddha Majumder

Workshop 6 Animals

and Spirituality

(Committee Hall) Led

by Susan Eirich

15:00 Nadra Nathai-gyan et

al - Wild Animals

Seized in the Illegal

Trade in Trinidad and

Tobago – What Fate

Awaits Them? 94

A workshop with an



allowing people to






This workshop will

explore animals, art

and aesthetics.

NVK Ashraf - Animal

behavior and human

ethics: The use of

similes from the animal

world to impart human

values in India 223

Jeff Sebo - Can Animals

Act Together? 148

Akanksha Kotibhaskar -

Monkey Business 202

A workshop with an



allowing people to






This workshop will

focus on: the

Interconnection

Between Spirituality

and Activism as an

Essential Step Forward

15:30 Lauri Hyers et al -

Farmers' Perceptions

of Chimpanzee Crop

Raiding at the Bounds

of the Gishwati

National Forest

Reserve in Western

Rwanda 147

Alwin Devaraj - Effect

of Housing and

Handling Practices on

the Welfare, Behaviour

and Selection of Wistar

Rats by Researchers in

an Animal Research

Facility 272

Fabiola Leyton - Animal

Research and Bioethics

192

Sneha Das - The Head,

the Breath and the

Man: Contextualising

Balidaana in the

Kaamaakhyaa Cult 240

16:00 Karen Mancera - The

effects of transport

stress on the behavior

and welfare of the

Eastern Blue Tongued

Lizard (Tiliqua

scincoides) et al 35

Khushboo Gupta -

Welfare of Dairy

Animals in India 320

Carlos Federico Ramos

de Jesus - Justice as

Fairness and non-

human animals: a

feasible dialogue? 235

Shikha Panwar -

Animals in the Royal

Sacrifice: A study of

the Ashvamedha Yajña

258

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

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