2nd of November 2018

9 – Registration of participants

9:30 – Official opening

9:50 – 10 – Coffee break

10 – 11:30 

Section 1: Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking about Animals

Chair: Cătălina-Daniela Răducu

• Emilian Mihailov – Favouring Humans, between Prejudice and Necessity of Moral Thinking
• Bogdan Olaru – Treating Animals and Children Alike. The Case for Breaking the Monopoly of Adult Persons in Moral Matters
• Liviu Măgurianu – Consciousness and Morality in the World of Non-human Animals
• Mara Misiti – Animal Studies and Frankfurt School: Dominion and Resistance

11:30 – 11:40 – Coffee break

11:40 – 13:00 

Section 1: Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking about Animals

Chair: Bogdan Olaru

• Cătălina-Daniela Răducu – Women and Other Animals: Understanding the Common Grounds for Oppression
• Codrin Dinu-Vasiliu – How It Dies
• Aurora Hrițuleac – Disenfranchised Grief – the Meaning of Significant Companionship
• Irina Frasin – Face to Face with Animals. Meeting and Understanding the Other

13-13:10 – Coffee break

13:10 – 14

Section 2: Contemporary Issues in the Field of Anthrozoology

Chair: Irina Frasin

• Alina Simona Rusu – Multidisciplinary Approach of Human-Animal Interactions: Mechanisms and Applied Values
• Beatrice Del Monte –  Urban Beekeeping. An Ethnographic Study of the Relationship between Humans and Bees in the City of Rome 

14 – 15:30 – Lunch break

15:30 – 16

• Book Launch – Alina Simona Rusu – Interacțiunile asistate de animale. De la cunoștințe interdisciplinare la practică (Animal Assisted Interactions. From Interdisciplinary Knowledge to Practice), Presa Universitară Clujeană

16 -16:10 – Coffee break

16:10 – 17:10

Section 3: Cultural and Historical Approaches to Human – Animal Interactions

Chair: George Bodi

• Pia-Kristina Anderson – Buddhist Interpretation of Human-Animal Relations
• Bogdan Crețu – The Animal: User Manual. From the Biblical Bestiary to the Symbolic Thinking
• Ludmila Bacumenco-Pîrnău, Luminița Bejenaru – Man and Bees: Obtaining and Consumption of Honey in Medieval Moldova

17:10 – 17:20 – Coffee break

17:20 – 18:20

Section 3: Cultural and Historical Approaches to Human – Animal Interactions

Chair: Luminița Bejenaru

• Adina Hulubaş – „The Snake of the House” in Documents from The Folklore Archive of Moldavia and Bucovina
• Ioana Repciuc – Between Wild and Tamed. Ritual Animal Disguise according to the Folklore Archive of Moldavia and Bucovina
• George Bodi, Loredana Solcan, Luminița Bejenaru – Considerations on the Significance of Bovidae Representations in the Cucuteni Cultur