HARN: Human Animal Research Network at the University of Sydney
June 12th and 13th, 2012,
Woolley Building, University of Sydney,
KEYNOTE:
Professor Deborah Bird Rose,
Macquarie UniversityHARN Lecture:
Associate Professor Annie Potts,
NZ Centre for Human Animal Studies, University of Canterbury
This symposium brings together cross-disciplinary voices on the topic of Animal Death. Over two days we will explore how animal and human death are conceptualised; how they diverge, differ and also connect in profound ways. The conference will be exploring the following themes:
- Ontologies of Death and sacrifice
- Species extinction and climate change
- Euthanasia: perspectives from veterinary science
- The hunter and the Hunted
- Sacrifice and expendability
- Animal art
- Road Kill’
- Wild Life and Rescue
- Mourning, grief and denial
- Rituals of Slaughter
- Vivisection
- Who and who isn’t attributed a ‘soul’
- post-death belief systems
- Animal death and contemporary film
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