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From: Rhys Evans <[log in to unmask]> www.eqrn.net Subject: Event: Minding Animals Oslo -- Shared Worlds (14-15 October 2011) Date: October 3, 2011 1:20:36 AM PDT Shared Worlds Oslo – A Minding Animals Pre-Conference Event This Minding Animals Pre-conference Event, 14-15 October 2011, is focused upon the way in which humans and non-human animals co-create the shared worlds which they jointly inhabit. This way of looking asserts that both are actors in complex encounters and co-constitute the other. Speakers: - Rod Bennison (Hunter Valley, Australia): "Considering the exploitation of animals in sport, and understanding the ‘Sport of Queens’" - Tora Holmberg (Uppsala, Sweden): "Sharing the lives of many: Urban controversies over animal hoarding and animal rescue" - Liv Emma Thorsen (Oslo, Norway): "Shared worlds? Animals in Natural History Museums" - Nelly Mäekivi (Tartu, Estonia): "(Mis)perceptions in Shared Environments: The Case of Zoos" There will be roundtables on (1) the shared worlds of humans and horses (participants include Lynda Birke, Kristin Oma Armstrong, Rhys Evans) and (2) the shared worlds of humans and wolves (participants include Runar Næss, Antonio Poleo and Ketil Skogen), and a workshop on the relation between academia and activism. Minding Animals acts as a bridge between academia and advocacy, and provides an avenue for the transdisciplinary field of Animal Studies to be more responsive to the protection of animals, environmentalism included. Minding Animals aims to enable discourse between the various interests within this rapidly developing transdisciplinary field in ways that will improve the status of non-human animals. To register, write an email to [log in to unmask] with your full name, email address and phone number. Attendance is free of charge and open to all upon registration. For more info, see our webpage http://mindinganimals.wordpress.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Perth College UHI. If your email contains a request for information that you feel may fall under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act please visit our FOI websites. For Perth College UHI at this URL http://www.perth.ac.uk/foi/Pages/default.aspx Perth College is a charity registered in Scotland No SC021209. This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It is your responsibility to carry out virus and other such checks as you consider appropriate. " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------