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Conference Programme Abstracts Dian Fossey - Biography

Conference Programme

19th May, 2014 (Monday)
9.00 – OPENING
9.15 – 10.00 LECTURE Mary Trachsel
  • Intersubjective Science: The Legacy of Ape Language Research

10.00 – 10.15 discussion
10.15 – 10.30 coffee break

10.30 – 12.30 SESSION

  • Moderator: Hubert Kowalczys, sen.
  • Short contributions with discussion:Małgorzata Kot
    Aleksander Kowalczys & Hubert Kowalczys, jr
    Anna Axer & Jerzy Axer
    Dorota Łagodzka
12.30 – 13.30 lunch break

13.30 – 14.00 LECTURE Pär Segerdahl

  • Can an Ape Become Your Co-author? Reflections of Processes of “Becoming” in Apes

14.00 – 14.15 discussion

14.15 – 14.45 LECTURE Immanuel Birmelin

  • How Primates See the World – Personality and Theory of Mind

14.45 – 15.00 discussion

15.00 -16.00 PANEL DISCUSSION Interspecies or Interpersonal Communication

  • Moderator: Wojciech Pisula
16.00 – 16.15 coffee break

16.15 – 17.45 PANEL DISCUSSION Human and Non-Human Primates – Boundaries of Mutual Understanding

  • Moderator: Joanna Pijanowska
18.15 dinner

20th May, 2014 (Tuesday)

9.00 – 9.45 LECTURE Judith Benz-Schwarzburg

  • Great Apes – Great Theories – Great Challenges: Cognitive Kinship versus the Status Quo of Human-Great Ape Interaction

9.45 – 10.00 discussion

10.00 – 10.30 LECTURE Colin Goldner

  • Basic Rights for Great Apes: the Great Ape Project

10.30 – 10.45 discussion
10.45 – 11.00 coffee break

11.00 – 12.00 LECTURE Hjalmar Kühl & Thurston Cleveland Hicks

  • Humans and African Apes – An Uneasy Coexistence

12.00 – 12.30 discussion
12.30 – 13.30 lunch break

13.30 – 14.00 LECTURE Andrea Donaldson

  • Colobos Conservation Experience of Human-Monkeys Coexistence

14.00 – 14.15 discussion

14.15 – 15.45 PANEL DISCUSSION Human-Animal Relations Revisited. Interdisciplinary Research and Educational Perspective

  • Moderators: Jerzy Axer & Hjalmar Kühl
15.45 – 16.30 FINAL DISCUSSION
16.30 – 16.45 coffee break

16.45 – 17.45 STUDENTS’ PANEL DISCUSSION On the Verge of Studies and Thought: Taking the Perspective of Non-Human Subjects

  • Moderator: Katarzyna Bobrowicz

Organizing committee

Jerzy Axer, Full Professor, dean of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Joanna Pijanowska, Full Professor, former dean of The Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
Dorota Łagodzka, MA, research assistant at The Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw; PhD candidate in The Institute of Art of The Polish Academy of Sciences