**SATURDAY MARCH 29TH / SAMEDI 29 MARS 2014**
9:30 – 10:00 : Sign-In and Socializing / Accueil
10:00 – 12:00 : PANEL 3 (Facilitator: Agatha Slupek)
“Arakawa’s Alternative Compassion: Gin no Saji, ‘Humane’ Farming, and the Indoctrination of Youth in the Absence of Critique”
Dylan Hallingstad O’Brien (Hamline University)
“Biopolitical Animals” Christina Stephens (Purdue University)
“Rabideau v. City of Ravine: Cases in Animal Law” Nicholas Backman (Faculty of Law, McGill)
“Culture Creatures: Reading the NonHuman Other in France and the U.S” Addison Woolsey (McGill)
12:00 – 1:00 : VEGAN LUNCH//PAUSE BOUFFE VÉGÉTALIENNE
1:00 – 3:00 : PANEL 4 (Facilitator: Rocky Schwartz)
“The Surveillance of Nonhuman Farmed Animals: A Biopolitical Analysis of Current Shifts in ‘Food Safety’ Laws in Canada” Kelly Struthers Montford (U of Alberta)
“The Human Experiment” Kacie Auffret (UBC Okanagan)
“Nonhuman Animal Words: Fiction From the Nonhuman Perspective” Kenny Kruse (University of Alabama)
“Alternative Methods to Animal Testing” Salomé Pollet (France)
3:00 – 3:15 : BREAK
3:15 – 5:15 : PANEL 5 (Facilitator: Daniel Franck)
“Advocacy and Activism: Youth, Their Pets, and Situations of Domestic Violence” Yaffa Elling (Social worker, danslarue.org)
“Fellow Speakers? A Critical Examination of Josephine Donovan’s Dialogization of Human-Nonhuman Relations” Justin Morris (McMaster University, Ontario)
“A Future for Critical Animal Studies” John Sanbonmatsu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
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