A Animal Day Conference terá lugar no ICS-ULisboa no dia 4 de outubro. Sob o tema Animals Included: Relationality and Companionship in More Than Human Worlds, o evento é organizado pelo Hub Human-Animal Studies do ICS-ULisboa.

June Rubis é a oradora convidada da primeira sessão "The orang utan is not an Indigenous name: Knowing and Naming the Mayas as a Decolonising Epistemology", que terá lugar entre as 10h e as 11h30. Seguir-se-á uma mesa redonda sobre o tema "A Multispecies Dialogue: How to Include the Nonhuman in our Research Practice?", com Henrique Tereno, Verónica Policarpo, Chiara Beneduce e Maria Saari. Durante a tarde, Seven Mattes apresentará o tema "Mutual Flourishing - Building Multispecies Community Resilience".

A partir das 10h, no Auditório Sedas Nunes do ICS-ULisboa e online.

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On October 4th, in occasion of Portugal Animals Day, we will have the pleasure to welcome June Rubis as a keynote speaker at ICS and online. Rubis is an Indigenous scholar, decolonial thinker, and conservationist based in Sarawak, Borneo, with over 20 years of experience working at the nexus of biodiversity conservation, climate change, and Indigenous knowledge systems. She holds a DPhil in Environmental Geography from the University of Oxford, where her research focused on decolonizing orangutan conservation in Sarawak. June also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, and has been recently awarded the Macquarie University Research Fellowship to lead decolonial cartographies research in Southeast Asia. 

You can attend online by registering to the link

We will also have the pleasure to welcome Seven Mattes as a keynote speaker at ICS and online. Seven is a cultural anthropologist who focus on Animal Studies, Critical Disaster Studies, Japan Studies and Gender and the Environment. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Michigan State University, where her research focused on the disasters that hit Japan in 2011 and namely on how the context of disasters impacted human and non-human animals in positions of vulnerability. 

This event is co-organized with Project ABIDE - Animal ABidings: recoverIng from Disasters in more-than-human communities, coordinated by PI Verónica Policarpo, and funded by the European Union (ERC, ABIDE, CoG ID 101043231).