Program
Friday October 14
09.30-10.00 Registration
Chair of morning session: Morten Tønnessen
10.00-11.00 Rod Bennison: “Considering the exploitation of animals in sport, and understanding the ‘Sport of Queens’”
10.00-10.45 Plenary speech
10.45-11.00 Q & A
11.00-12.00 Panel on the shared worlds of horses and humans
Facilitator: Kristin Oma Armstrong
Panelists: Kristin Oma Armstrong, Lynda Birke, Rhys Evans [the latter by video link]
11.00-11.15 Video introduction by Rhys Evans
11.15-12.00 Panel discussion
12.00-12.15 Coffee break
12.15-13.15 Liv Emma Thorsen: “Shared worlds? Animals in natural history museums”
12.15-13.00 Plenary speech
13.00-13.15 Q & A
13.15-14.45 Lunch break
Chair of afternoon session: Rune Ellefsen
14.45-15.45 Nelly Mäekivi: “(Mis)perceptions in shared environments: The case of zoos”
14.45-15.30 Plenary speech
15.30-15.45 Q & A
15.45-16.45 Tora Holmberg: “Sharing the lives of many: Urban controversies over animal hoarding and animal rescue”
15.45-16.30 Plenary speech
16.30-16.45 Q & A
16.45-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Roundtable on the shared worlds of wolves and humans
Facilitator: Morten Tønnessen
Confirmed roundtable participants: Runar Næss, Antonio Poleo, Ketil Skogen, Morten Tønnessen
17.00-17.10 Introduction by Morten Tønnessen
17.10-18.00 Roundtable discussion
Saturday October 15
Chair of morning session: Rod Bennison
11.00-11.15 Rod Bennison informs about Minding Animals International and the 2012 Minding Animals conference in Utrecht
11.15-12.15 Position note workshop on the relation between academia and activism, part I
11.15-11.30 Video introduction by Rhys Evans
11.30-11.45 Philosophical practice: Questioning of Rod Bennison (by Morten Tønnessen) on his honest, deeply held beliefs and intuitions on human-animal relations
11.45-12.15 Group work
12.15-13.15 Panel on the relation between academia and activism in the context of HAS
Facilitator: Rune Ellefsen
Panelists: Kristin Oma Armstrong (UiO), Kristian Bjørkdahl (SUM – UiO), Rune Ellefsen (UiO), Hilde Valbjørn Hagelin (Dyrevernalliansen))
13.15-13.30 Coffee break
13.30-15.30 Position note workshop part II
15.30-17.00 Lunch break
17.00-18.00 General meeting of Minding Animals Norway
