5th of November

9:30 Official Opening

10:00 – 12:00 Section 1

Chair: Irina Frasin

Eva Meijer – The role of language in multispecies politics: Toward a theory of political animal voices

Paride Bollettin – Becoming primates: Ethnographic notes on the production of human and other-than-human multispecies collectives

Michelle Szydlowski – Commodification at a Crossroads: The Elephants of Nepal

Abu Bakar Siddiq – Dualism in your mind: Shepherd-animal complex relationships in southeastern Anatolia

12:00 – 12:15 Coffee break

12:15 – 14:00 Section 2

Chair: George Bodi

Marco Adda – Anthrozooalgia, the Anthropause, and the Way to the Symbiocene

Jeff Sebo, Laurie Sellars – Animals, pandemics, and climate change

Andrei Mihalca – Wildlife of Africa – Game over?

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 – 17:00 Section 3

Chair: Aurora Hrițuleac

Anna L. Arnaudova-Otouzbirova – Classroom Pets in Primary School Education: Benefits and Welfare Concerns

Ani Dimova Zlateva, Katya Bozhidarova Tineva-Gyurkovska – Basic Approaches of Stylization in the Images of Animal Figures in the Drawings of Preschool Children

Ionuț Bârliba – Pets as extension of our social self

Codrin Dinu Vasiliu – Biophotography in the Representations of Human-Animal Relationship

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 – 19:00 Section 4

Chair: Luminița Ailincăi

Alina Rusu, Dorin Dumitran – When humans and their pets are found dead at the crime scene: Interdisciplinary reflections and analysis of cases

Aurora Hrițuleac – The Dark Side of Child – Animal Interactions. Child Abuse and Animal Abuse

Cătălina Daniela Răducu – Shared Objectification: On Women and Other Female Flesh

Oana-Raluca Rusu, Gheorghiță Vlad, Gașpar Corneliu, Răzvan-Nicolae Mălăncuș, Luminița-Iuliana Ailincăi – Animal Welfare – Stress in Animals Intended for Human Consumption and the Influence on Organoleptic Modification of Meat After Slaughter

6th of November

10:00 – 11:30 Section 5

Chair: Marco Adda

Tiamat Warda – Emotions at Work: The Role of Emotional Labour During a Guide Dog’s Education

Luminița-Iuliana Ailincăi, Mathilde Baille, Corneliu Gașpar – Akita Inu and the wolves – comparative behavioral review

Liviu Măgurianu, Daniel Măgurianu – The world without senses in humans and animals

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 14:00 Section 6

Chair: Alina Simona Rusu

Kristine Hill – Feral and out of control: A moral panic over domestic cats?

Luminița-Iuliana Ailincăi, Aglaé Marguerettaz, Oana-Raluca Rusu, Gașpar Corneliu – The social behavior of indoor cats – An anthrozoological approach

Irina Frasin – Women and Cats: Cultural History of a Relationship

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 – 17:00 Section 7

Chair: Ionuț Bârliba

Jessica Ullrich – The Future of Art after the Animal Turn

Martin Ullrich – A Critical Review of Music for Animals

Thomas Aiello – Surrealism and the Slaughterhouse: Art and Animals in Eli Lotar’s La Villette Photographs and Georges Franjou’s Blood of the Beasts

George Bodi – Snakes and Ladders. Thoughts on a Venomous Dispute in Prehistoric Archaeology

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 – 19:00 Section 8

Chair: Liviu Măgurianu

Madalina Mincu, Dinu Gavojdian, Constantin Vlagioiu – Study on the Effects of Hair Whorl Patterns on Behavioural Reactivity in Dairy Cattle – Preliminary Results

Luminița-Iuliana Ailincăi, Gașpar Corneliu – Cognition of domestic animals – another approach to ethological study

Felicia Ceaușu – Are animals just intelligent or do they possess thought?

Concluding remarks