Wednesday, 4th July The International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ): 27th Annual Conference 2018

Light Breakfast available between 7:30 am and 8:30 am

Includes: Tea/coffee/juice/pastry

Announce new ISAZ Fellows (Cheryl-Krause-Parello, ISAZ President)

Early Career Award Announcement (Cheryl Krause-Parello, ISAZ and Sandra McCune, WALTHAM)

• Embrace Your Dark Side: The value of both quantitative and qualitative research methods in Anthrozoology - Carri Westgarth

• Animals on screens: Thinking critically about animals, audiences and empathy. - Claire Parkinson

• In the water with white sharks: Can cage-dive tourism influence conservation behaviour? - Kirin Apps
• Chirps, quacks, croaks, howls and “What was that?”: how long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail came to know trail animals through their sounds? - Kate Marx
• Framing the wolf: notes on representation of a returning predator. - Verena Schröder
• Stakeholder perceptions of a livestock guarding dog programme in South Africa. - Katherine Whitehouse-Tedd

• Developing a theory on animal-assisted psychotherapy: discussions across disciplines, species, and outcomes. - Angela Fournier, Elizabeth Letson, MS, LPCC and Jennifer Laitala

• One Health: Strategies for strengthening global connection. - Brinda Jegatheesan and Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers

• Adopting an inclusive perceptive to understand our relations with animals and their important (but sometimes conflicting) place in human lives: A role for social psychology. - Catherine Amiot, Brock Bastian, Cluny South and Matthew Ruby

Including NIH Presentation: Kangaroo Room (Auditorium)

Presenters: Sandra McCune, Jim Griffin, Nancy Gee

• Searching, settling, and staying put: Rental housing in the (dis)placing of dog owners. - Taryn M Graham
• Relinquishment of dogs and cats online. - Susan J. Hazel
• The expectations of prospective adopters for dog ownership. - Lauren Powell

• The bare essentials: the representation of brown bears in ancient Egypt. - Lydia Bashford
• Animal behaviour in ancient Egyptian art. - Linda Evans
• It’s a dog’s life: votive canid crania from Saqqara. - Mary Hartley

• Comparison of effects of three types of facilitated horse–human interactions on stress levels of humans and horses. - Ann Baldwin
• Therapeutic for all?: observational assessments of therapy canine stress during sessions. - John-Tyler Binfet
• Perceived stress responses in therapy dogs during animal-assisted activities in aged care facilities. - Sarah R Nicholls

• Best practices and standards for animal-assisted interventions. - Deborah E Linder and Nancy R Gee

• Comparing owner rated dog temperament measures with demographics and a measure of owner personality. - Tania C Plueckhahn
• Relationship between owner personality and mood and the prevalence of canine behavior problems. - James A Serpell
• Archetyping relationships with companion animals to understand disaster risk-taking propensity. - Joshua Trigg

• Effects of animal presence and contact on frontal brain activity in patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS): A randomized, controlled pilot study. - Wanda Arnskötter
• Effects of animal-assisted therapy in patients in a minimally conscious state: a randomised-controlled trial. - Karin Hediger
• The effect of animal- assisted therapy in patients in long-term care: pilot study.   - Kristýna Machová

• PTSD service dogs: associations between training techniques, service dog behaviors, and human-animal bond. - Megan R LaFollette
• Do dogs help people to thrive and are service dogs more beneficial than companion dogs. - Jennifer Gravrok
• Common loss, common gain: dogs and humans learn mutualistic practices of care. - Fenella Eason

• Therapy canines: screening and assessment safeguarding well being and innovative programming. - John-Tyler Binfet, Elizabeth Kjellstrand Hartwig, Haley Silas, Carson McKay and Brittany Calibaba

• Human-animal interactions in zoos: Balancing urban biophilia with species conservation. - Vicky Melfi

• Animal-assisted therapy for schizophrenia: a systematic review. - Emma L Hawkins
• The relation between ward cats and patient satisfaction in psychiatric wards. - Cora Wagner
• There's a dog in my session: practitioner perspectives on animal-assisted counseling. - Elizabeth Kjellstrand Hartwig

• Bark once for yes and twice for no: applying the capabilities approach to research ethics in human-animal interaction studies. - Catherine M Smith
• Complete bollocks: Do we have a moral obligation to neuter other animals? - Alexander Badman-King

• The effects of therapy dogs on stress and memory. - Janet Trammell
• An animal-assisted narrative journey for youth with social withdrawal experiences in Hong Kong. - Shui King Leung
• Evaluation of infection control and prevention measures in a university-based animal assisted intervention (AAI) program. - Sara F Boyle

• Perspectives on donkey companions. - Lee Zasloff
• Goats differentiate human emotional facial expressions. - Alan G McElligott
• Enhancing children’s understanding of farm animal and wildlife welfare through interactive iPad games. - Joanne M Williams

Sydney Harbour dinner cruise
(including coach transfer: coaches depart from University of Sydney at 7:00PM)

Delegates will be picked up from the bus stop located just down from The Corner Cafe on Missenden Road.