Three meetings and a supervision session

Today I have attended a faculty leadership meeting, a Skype meeting related to Norway´s Council for animal ethics, a work meeting related to research administration, and taken part in a Ph.d. supervission session with defriefing after 50% seminar.

One meeting via Skype

Today I have attended an appointments committee meeting via Skype related to a position as head of department.

Planning of two wolf-themed articles

Today I took part in a Skype call with a colleague (should have been two) to plan for two belated wolf-themed articles we are co-writing based on video material from Wolf Park and our own field work with video-recorded interviews in Norway.

Planning meeting on Skopje GroupHouseNet stakeholder workshop

I have just taken part in a planning meeting of GroupHouseNet (Synergy for damaging behaviour in group housed pigs and chickens) in relation to our planned stakeholder workshop in Skopje, Macedonia, on June 7th.

Skype meeting for philosophers

Today I participated in a philosopher meeting via Skype involving a group in Rome and another at University of Stavanger, in relation to our application in preparation of establishing a new program area for research.

Extraordinary General Meeting of Minding Animals Norway to be held

An extraordinary General Meeting of Minding Animals Norway has been called. The meeting will take place via Skype on February 1st. Hopefully a new board will be elected at the meeting. Other items on the agenda includes revision of the statutes or, if a new board is not elected, dissolving the organisation.

Planning meeting on 5th Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference

On August 23rd I took part in a planning meeting, via Skype, for the 5th Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, which will take place in Oslo in November.

Comments on Alice Crary´s "Inside ethics" given at book seminar

Today I offered "Comments on the book with an eye to animal ethics and Human-Animal Studies" - the book being Alice Crary´s Inside ethics: On the demands of moral thought, released this Spring, as part of a 4 hour seminar devoted to the book held at University of Stavanger today. Cato Wittusen and myself organized the seminar, which was attended by some 10 people.

Due to chicken pox in the family I attended from home, via Skype.

NTB video interview conducted but not aired

This summer I was interviewed via Skype by NTB (Norwegian news agency) video journalist Tore Meek in relation to the killing of a dog (or rather two incidents) in Norway which gave rise to a lot of engagement and debate. To my knowledge the interview never aired/was never published. I gave the interview as Chair of Minding Animals Norway.