6 October

8:30 – 8:45 – Registration (room Multiusos 3)


8:45 – 9:00 – Welcoming and presentation (room Multiusos 2)


9:00 – 9:50 – Keynote Session

The Histories and Politics of a Critical Animal Studies, by Richard Twine (Edge Hill University) - Room Multiusos 2

9:50 – 10:00 – Break 

10:00 – 11:40

Animals, identities, colonialism (or Animals and the Other) (Room Multiusos 2)

• Wildlife, hunting and colonialism in central Mozambique in the early 20th century, by Bárbara Direito (IHC - FCSH/UNL
• The human representation of animals as the other, in a cross-cultural, western perspective, by Isa Rasmussen (Copenhagen University)
• From whale to whale: nation and identity in Australia’s opposition to Japanese whaling, by Colin Salter (University of Wollongong)

Philosophy, Ethics, Ontology (Room Multiusos 3)

• The Anthropocentrism of Anti-realism, by Leonardo Caffo (Università degli studi di Torino)
• Animal liberation as the ability to overstep ourselves, by Roberto Marchesini (Centre Study for Posthuman Philosophy and SIUA - School of Human Animal Interaction)
• Expanding the Harm Principle to a Posthumanist Ethic: John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1869) enhanced by Rosi Braidotti's The Posthuman (2013), by Brandon Taylor (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)

11:40 – 12:00 – Break


12:00 – 13.30

Agency and history (Room Multiusos 2)

• The Spontaneous Horse: Understanding what liberation means from the horse’s point of view, by Francesco De Giorgio & José De Giorgio-Schoorl (Learning Animals, Institute for Zooanthropology)
• “An Alligator Got Betty”: Dangerous Animals as Historical Agents, by Krista Maglen (Indiana University)  
• Animal voices: history, agency, and the politics of language, by Eva Meijer (University of Amsterdam)

Changing Attitudes and Promoting Animal Liberation (Room Multiusos 3)

• Critical Animal Pedagogy: Explorations toward Reflective Practice, by Karin Gunnarson Dinker (Swansea University)
• Narrative Power and Animal Liberation, or How to Experiment on Humans for the Good of the Animals and Get Away with It, Wojciech Małecki (University of Wrocław)
• Social psychology approach toward animal liberation, by Tereza Vandrovcová (Charles University, Prague)

13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch


14:30 – 16:10

Food Production, Research and Welfare (Room Multiusos 2)

• About confined freedoms and shared lives: animals, humans and welfare in beef cattle breeding farms, by Graciela Froehlich (University of Brasilia)
• "Animal welfare" and "economic efficiency" according to the official discourse of Portuguese livestock industry, by Rui Pedro Fonseca (CIES-IUL)
• Food production’s Post-Animal Turn? In Vitro Meat, the Subsumption of Nature, and Non-existence as Animal Liberation, by Erik Jönsson (Lund University)
• Contesting the ethics of animal farming: the moral visibility and categorization of animals in focus group discussions on food practices, by Saara Kupsala (University of Eastern Finland)

Human and Non-human Animal Interactions (Room Multiusos 3)

• Human-animal interactions: a sustainable relationship?, by Pim Martens (Maastricht University)
• Animals in religion and sustainable development: recognition and reorientation, by Yamini Narayanan (Deakin University)
• In black and white: explorations on Animalario by Nuria Cubas, by Vanessa Badagliacca (FCSH-UNL)
• The Filmic Order and Animal Studies, by Ilda Castro (IFILNOVA-UNL)

16:10 – 16-30 – Break

16:30 – 17:50

Debates, questions and concepts (Room Multiusos 2)

• Is the animal rights movement a social movement?, by Pierre André-Gagnon (University of Ottawa)
• ‘Is Our Position Utopian?’ Inheriting Utopia and the Im/possibility of Animal Liberation Today, by Francis Tarpey (La Trobe University)
• Human Competitions Involving Nonhuman Animals, by Nico Müller (University of Zurich)

 

17:50 – 18:00 – Break 

18:00 – 19:00 – Keynote Session

Taking Stock of the Scholarly ‘Animal Turn’: An exploration of the innovative, politicised and tainted nature of human-animal scholarship, by Rhoda Wilkie (University of Aberdeen) - Room Multiusos 2