Human Animal Interactions Symposium 2024

The 2nd Symposium on Human Animal Interactions 2024 in Vienna sets the stage for current research on the relationships between humans and animals.
It covers a variety of topics ranging from animal husbandry, animal welfare, behavioral and cognitive biology to comparative medicine and ethics.

Students of the Interdisciplinary Master's Programme in Human–Animal Interactions (IMHAI) presenting their ongoing research project through a conference day and of posters sessions.

Guest speaker: Sophie Veigl

Programme

8:30 Door opening 
9:00 Welcoming talk 
9:15 Guest speaker: Sophie Veigl
10:20 Coffee break
10:50 Taking a break – salivary cortisol, heart rate variability and behaviour in guide dogs after working
11:15 Effect of urbanization on free-ranging wolves in Italy
11:40 Self-recognition of their own body as a physical obstacle in Goffin’s cockatoos
12:05 Social transfer of foraging information
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Poster session
14:30 Curing cancer in dogs: Development and in-vitro testing of caninized checkpoint inhibitors for canine cancer immunotherapy
14:55 Pro-choice without a voice? - Extending arguments from debates on female reproductive autonomy to non-human animals in commercial farming
15:20 Resisting being made voiceless: Reflecting resistance as a form of animal agency to identify disenhancement as a moral problem in animal research
15:45 Coffee break
16:10 Are brachycephalic dogs special or the people who like them?
16:35 Stress at work and severity of allergy symptoms: a questionnaire study
16:55 Closing

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