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Relating to animals: a one-day interdisciplinary conference on human-animal relationships.
Dates and Times
3 June 2005 from 9.30am
Location

Great Woodhouse Suite,
University House, University of Leeds
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Nicola Hutchinson
family@leeds.ac.uk

Date Posted // Date Posted - 1 June 2005
 
Agenda
The theme of this seminar is the role of animals in human families, intimate relationships and social lives. Animals may be involved in human relationships in a variety of ways. On one level, people may find them ‘good to think with’ and our perception of the similarities and differences between ourselves and animals may illuminate aspects of our own social lives. More literally, relationships between particular humans and animals may play a significant role in people’s lives. For example, some people’s relationship with their companion animal may be of great emotional importance (raising questions about how we are to understand such cross-species ‘intimacy’), while companion animals may also facilitate relationships between humans. These relationships with companion animals may take on a distinctive character as they intersect with the human life course; children and adults, for example, may have qualitatively different relationships with animals. In summary, we hope to explore some of the ways that animals are incorporated as metaphors, subjects, symbols and participants in human intimacy and relationships.

The interdisciplinary approach of this seminar will offer a contemporary and multi-faceted lens for exploring the ways in which animals play a part in human lives and we hope it will provoke exciting and stimulating debate. Academics and students from all disciplines are very welcome, as are practitioners and professionals who are interested in human-animal bonds.

Agenda
9.30 Arrival and coffee
10.00


Introduction and overview
Becky Tipper
CFRFKC, University of Leeds.

10.30
The Human-Companion Animal Bond and Euthanasia Related Grief
Susan Dawson and Bill Campbell
Department of Applied Community Studies Faculty of Health Social Care and Education, Manchester Metropolitan University.


11.30 Children, Pets and Health
June McNicholas,
Psychology, formerly University of Warwick.


12.30 Lunch

13.30
Re/presenting Nature in Zoos: Animals, Pedagogy, and Familiarity

Nils Lindahl Elliot, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England.

14.30
Relative Values: genealogies of entitlement among thoroughbred racehorses and their keepers
Rebecca Cassidy, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College.

15.30
Tea/coffee and informal discussion of ideas for future events
16.00 Close


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