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The International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ) is excited to announce that its 27th International conference, "Animals in Our Lives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human–Animal Interactions" will be held from 2 to 5 July, 2018 in Sydney, Australia. This will be the first time the ISAZ has held a conference in the southern hemisphere – going Down Under – and we warmly invite you to join us at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
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Take advantage of the legendary hospitality of Australia to present a paper, promote your human–animal organization or simply to satisfy your curiosity about human–animal interactions.
Anthrozoology is a multidisciplinary field – we welcome talks and posters from the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences on any aspect of human–animal interaction and any species of animal, using qualitative and/or quantitative methods. Critical reviews are also welcome.
Abstract Submissions Now Open!
Some of the topics we are interested in hearing about include, in no particular order:
- Human–wildlife conflict/interactions
- Animals in human health, development and therapy (children, adults, older)
- Attitudes toward animals and animal issues
- Animal personality research
- Grief studies
- Historical aspects of our interactions with other animals
- Cruelty to animals/animal abuse
- The ethics of animal use
- Strategies to keep animals out of shelters and improve rehoming rates
- Cultural and cross-cultural studies (e.g., indigenous people’s relationships with animals)
- Animals in zoos – visitor studies; attitudes toward zoos
- Animals in farming: effects of stockpersons on; attitudes toward
- Representations of human–animal interaction – e.g., art, literature, media – and their influence on human–animal interactions
- Interactions with invertebrate animals
- Free papers - topic outside those listed
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We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which the University of Sydney is built – the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation – and we thank the animals which enrich this country.
We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney and Australia!
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