Conference at Aarhus University, Denmark
May 14th to 16th 2012
The conference aims to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discourse and information sharing between animal care staff, philosophers, animal scientists, students, and others interested in animal welfare studies.
The conference topics will be thematically wide-ranging and include a variety of species as well as several aspects of human-animal interactions such as zoos, laboratories, agriculture, wild animals and pets.
Speakers:
Professor Bernard Rollin – Colorado State University, USA
Professor Donald M. Broom – University of Cambridge, UK
DVM Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup PhD – Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Mickey Gjerris – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Lene Munksgaard – Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Jes Harfeld – Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Judith Benz-Schwarzburg – The University of Tübingen, Germany
Sabrina Brando – AnimalConcepts, The Netherlands
Conference organisers:
The conference is a collaboration between the Dutch animal welfare advisory company AnimalConcepts and the Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics at Aarhus University, Denmark. The conference is also a partner event of Minding Animals.
http://conferences.au.dk/animalwelfare/