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Speakers

The Inaugural Minding Animals Conference in Newcastle, Australia, was fortunate to have some of the most celebrated and gifted scholars and advocates as speakers, including some of the founders of the modern environmental and animal movements. They included:

Conference Dinner Speaker

Carol Adams
Renowned Ecofeminist, Activist and Author, USA
"Why Vegan Now? The Sexual Politics of Meat in the 21st Century"

Seminar Series Dinner Speaker

Jill Robinson MBE
Founder and CEO, Animals Asia Foundation, China
"Minding Bears in China and Vietnam"

Opening Lecture

Professor Marc Bekoff
Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Colorado, USA
"Minding Animals: A Compassionate Footprint"

Closing Lecture

Professor Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University, USA
"Ethics Without Speciesism"

The Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture

Val Plumwood - In Memorium

Professor Deborah Bird Rose
Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia
"Philosophical Animism"

Keynote Speakers


	Professor Dale Jamieson Director of Environmental Studies, New York University, USA "What do animals think?"
	Distinguished Professor Bernard Rollin Professor of Philosophy, Biomedical Sciences, Animal Sciences, and University Bioethicist, Colorado State University, USA "Emerging Social Ethics for Animals: Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenomenon"
	Professor James Serpell Marie A. Moore Professor of Humane Ethics and Animal Welfare, University of Pennsylvania, USA "On the Ethics of Pet Keeping"
	Professor Emeritus Michael Soulé Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, University of California, USA "Some Obstacles in the Way of Uniting the Three Life-affirming Movements"
	Professor Jennifer Wolch Dean, College of Environmental Design, and William W. Wurster Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA "Global Production Networks, Urban Consumption and the Carbon Hoofprint of Cities"

Invited Speakers

	Professor Steve Baker Professor of Art History, University of Central Lancashire, UK "Contemporary Art and Animal Rights"
	Anthony "Ace" Bourke Renowned Wildlife Activist, The University of Wollongong, Australia "A Lion Called Christian"
	Professor Donald Broom Colleen Macleod Professor of Animal Welfare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK "How are our obligations to animals related to knowledge of their cognitive ability?"
	Professor Mateus JR Paranhos Da Costa Professor of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, São Paulo State University, Brazil "The Improvement of Farm Animal Welfare using a positive approach: a Brazilian experience"
	Dr John Drinan Chair, Australian Animal Welfare Strategy, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry, Australia "The Australian Animal Welfare Strategy - a national Blueprint to improve animal welfare outcomes"
	Dr Erica Fudge Middlesex University, and Coordinator, British Animal Studies Network, UK "Renaissance Animal Things"
	Professor Steve Garlick Adjunct Professor in Regional Engagement, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia "A practical and relational approach to wildlife education. The kangaroo issue and a failing society"
	Professor Robert Garner Professor and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, UK "A Theory of Justice for Animals: Prospects and Possibilities"
	Professor Peter Harrison Director, Southern Cross University Coral Reef Research Centre and Whale Research Centre, Australia "Coral Reefs in Crisis: Human Impacts, Climate Change and the next Marine Mass Extinction"
	Professor Paul Hemsworth Director, Animal Welfare Science Centre, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, The University of Melbourne, Australia "Human-animal relationships: an examination of this subtle but profound determinant of the welfare of farm animals"
	Professor Gisela Kaplan Professor of Animal Behaviour, Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, Science and Technology, University of New England, Australia "Charles Darwin, Animal Behaviour and the Australian Magpie: The problem of assigning graded value to animals"
	Dr Hilda Kean Acting Dean, Academic Co-ordinator for Humanities and Social Sciences and MA Public History Programme Co-ordinator, Ruskin College, Oxford University, UK "Revisiting Grand Narrative History: the challenge of the British cat and dog massacre of World War Two"
	Professor Terence Lovat Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia "Values Education: A Pedagogy for Enhancing Learning and Instilling Compassion"
	Dr Dan Lunney Principal Research Scientist, New South Wales Department Environment and Climate Change, Australia "Contemporary Issues in Wildlife Management in Australia"
	Professor Randy Malamud Professor of English, Georgia State University, USA "Why Look at Animals in Visual Media? Aesthetics and Ethics of the Human Gaze"
	Vivek Menon Wildlife Trust of India, Uttar Pradesh, India "The Elephant and the Indian-Challenges of fitting 25,000 Near-Persons into a human dominated landscape"
	Professor Clive Phillips Foundation Chair of Animal Welfare, Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Australia "Cultural influences on attitudes to animals"
	Professor Margaret Rose Conjoint Professor, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW, and Chair, NSW Animal Research Review Panel, Australia "Challenges to the Development and Implementation of Public Policies which seek to achieve Animal Welfare Outcomes"
	Professor Peta Tait Professor of Theatre and Drama, La Trobe University, Australia "Emotions in Trained Animal Performances"
	Associate Professor Linda Williams Art History and Critical Theory, RMIT University, Australia "Visible Contradictions: the role of animals in human self-images of scientific discourse"

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