The host for Minding Animals International 2012 will be the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University (Ethiek instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)!

Minding Animals Conference 2:

Utrecht 2012 

(Building Bridges Among the Sciences, the Humanities and Advocacy) 

Visit the Utrecht 2012 website here!

Until such time as the Utrecht website is fully functional and if you did not attend the Inaugural Minding Animals International Conference in Newcastle, Australia, and would like to be kept informed of developments regarding the 2012 conference, please email your details (name, affiliation and email address) to the following email address:

We are honoured to announce that Jane Goodall DBE, United Nations Messenger of Peace, has joined Marc Bekoff, Jill Robinson and Peter Singer as one of our four patrons.  Further information on any of these esteemed supporters can be found on the patrons page.

Minding Animals International will soon be establishing transdisciplinary Study Circles that will culminate in lunch-time roundtables at Utrecht 2012 and in joint papers (see separate Study Circles page).  Would you be interested in participating in or coordinating any of the following Study Circles?  Do you have any other suggestions?  If interested, please contact us at the Minding Animals email address above.