1st of November 2019

9 – 9:30 — Registration of participants

9:30 – 10 — Official opening

10 – 11:45 — Section I – Chair: Alina Simona Rusu

• Codrin Dinu Vasiliu — Constituting Anthrozoology as an Autonomous Science of the Relations between Humans and Animals
• Emilian Mihailov — Humanity without Species
• Cătălina Daniela Răducu — Vulnerability and Control: Women and Other Animals in the Domestic Sphere

11:45 – 12 – Coffee break

12 – 14 — Section II – Chair: Irina Frasin

• Alina Simona Rusu — Compassion Fatigue and Moral Distress in Human — Animal Interactions. Psychological and Educational Approaches
• Marco Adda — Reframing Free — Ranging Dogs for a Multispecies Landscape. A Paradigm Shift on an Essential Piece of Human — Animal Coexistence
• Corneliu Gașpar, Ailincăi Luminița-Iuliana — On the Social Intraspecific Behaviour of Dogs

14 – 15:30 — Lunch break

15:30 – 16: 30 — Section III – Chair: Luminița-Iuliana Ailincăi

• Anna Lyubomirova Arnaudova – Otouzbirova — Animal Helpers in the Native American Universe
• Adina Hulubaș — The Swallow as a House Deity

16:30 – 16:45 — Coffee break

16:45 – 18 — Section IV – Chair: Lavinia Andreea Codrea

• Ludmila Bacumenco –Pîrnău, Luminița Bejenaru, George Bilavschi, Cătălin Hriban, Sever Boțan — The Impact of Modern Urban Development on the Wild Fauna. A Significant Archeological Find from the City of Iași (Romania)
• Luminița Bejenaru, Margareta Simina Stanc, Ludmila Bacumenco – Pîrnău, Vlad Vornic — Zooarchaeology of Two Mongol Cities (Golden Horde, 14th Century) from Old Orhei and Costești (Republic of Moldova)
• Cătălin Hriban — The Bestiary of Resurrection. Remarks on the Visuals of the Last Judgement in the 16th-century Moldavian Church Painting
• George Bodi, Loredana Solcan — The Attitude Towards Cattle in Ancient Texts. An Automatic Sentiment Analysis

2nd of November 2019

9 – 11 — Section V – Chair: Cătălina Daniela Răducu

• Carmen Strungaru — Humanimal — Between Pride and Prejudice
• Aurora Hrițuleac — Anthropocentric Arrogance from A Neuroscientific Perspective
• Liviu Măgurianu, Daniel Măgurianu — Emotion in Animal Life

11 – 11:15 — Coffee break

11:15 – 13:15 – Section VI – Chair: Aurora Hrițuleac

• Irina Frasin — Animals, Pets and Morality: Our Companion Animals and the Moral Duties to Them
• Lavinia Andreea Codrea — The European Protection of Companion Animals – or Lack Thereof
• Corneliu Gașpar, Luminița-Iuliana Ailincăi — General Principle and Legislation on Animal Protection
• Corneliu Gașpar, Oana Raluca Rusu, Luminița-Iuliana Ailincăi — General Principles and Legislation on Animal Welfare

13:15 – 15 – Lunch break

15 – 16:30 – Book Launch: Frans de Waal, „Suntem îndeajuns de inteligenți pentru a înțelege inteligența animalelor?” (Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?), translation by Carmen Strungaru, Humanitas

• Exhibition hosted by the Palace of Culture from Iași: BEASTS AND FANTASTIC ANIMALS. Representations from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.