THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY CONFERENCE ON ANIMALS
AND SOCIETY:
MINDING ANIMALS

We invite you to join us between 13 and 19 July, 2009, to discuss,
learn and consider the human interrelationships with our nonhuman
animal kin.
If you are interested in attending the Minding Animals Conference and
the Protecting the Animals Seminar Series, please register your
interest. You will later be able to formally register and submit
abstracts for conference presentation (presentations or posters) from
1 July, 2008.
If you have any queries regarding the conference please email us at
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Download the first conference newsletter:
http://www.mindinganimals.com/images/stories/newsletter1.pdf

Minding Animals
Conference
13-19 July, 2009

THE CONFERENCE HAS SIX MAJOR THEMES AND OBJECTIVES:

* To reassess the relationship between the animal and environmental
movements in light of climate change and other jointly-held threats
and concerns
* To examine how humans identify and represent nonhuman animals in
art, literature, music, science, and in the media and on film
* How, throughout history, the objectification of nonhuman animals
and nature in science and society, religion and philosophy, has led
to the abuse of nonhuman animals and how this has since been
interpreted and evaluated
* To examine how the lives of humans and companion and domesticated
nonhuman animals are intertwined, and how science, human and
veterinary medicine utilise these important connections
* How the study of animals and society can better inform both the
scientific study of animals and community activism and advocacy
* And how science and community activism and advocacy can inform the
study of nonhuman animals and society

THE INSIDE STORY

The conference will be a meat-free and smoke-free event. The
conference will also strive to be a carbon-neutral event, with a
percentage of all registration fees contributed to appropriate local
environmental charities to partially offset your carbon usage.

Log on to www.mindinganimals.com to find more information
about the conference