If you’re interested in human-animal interactions, you’ll
be pleased to know that the International Society for Anthrozoology is hosting
its 27th annual conference in Australia.
“Animals in Our Lives – Multidisciplinary Approaches to
the Study of Human-Animal Interactions” will be hosted at the Charles PerkinsCentre, University of Sydney, from July 2 to 5, 2018.
If you’d like to SPEAK at the conference, you have until
January 2018 to submit an abstract.
Abstract topics include:
- Human-wildlife conflict/interactions
- Animals and human health and development
- Interactions with invertebrate animals
- Grief studies
- Animals kept in zoos – visitor studies;
attitudes toward zoos
- Animals used in farming: effects of
stockpersons on; attitudes toward
- Strategies to keep animals out of shelters and
improve rehoming rates
- Cultural and cross-cultural studies (e.g.,
indigenous people’s relationships with animals)
- Attitudes toward animals and animal
issues
- Animal personality research
- Representations of human–animal interaction –
e.g., art, literature, media – and their influence on human–animal
interactions
- Historical aspects of our interactions with
other animals
- Cruelty to animals/animal abuse
- The ethics of animal use
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