Dear BERGers and SHAIRers,
Our talk tomorrow (Weds 31 Jan, 4pm in the Psychology Common Room Cottrell, C3A94) ) will be by Dr Kay Sidebottom, University of Stirling – see you there! (or hybrid via Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a9823d93069124396a7a40d99c827…>)
Pedagogies of Attunement: Learning from More-Than-Human Teachers
Our current ecological predicament requires a shift to a post-anthropocentric educational paradigm in which we educate for and about a world that is not ‘for us,’ but comprised of a multitude of eco-systems of which we are simply a part. To facilitate this, education should be enacted differently; we need to experience learning not as furthering entrenched nature/culture binaries, but as ‘worlding’ processes, whereby imaginary divides between individual and environment are troubled, as humans and the material world are revealed to be relational and entangled (Braidotti, 2019). In this seminar I will share the story of a recent research project which in which participants (both human and non-) came together to explore what happens when we cease to privilege humans as the ultimate instructors and holders of knowledge. In doing so we disrupted normative research methodologies, drawing on an ethics of care and relationality which extended the ‘teacher’ role to non-human kin such as water, plants and animals.
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Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Dear BERGers,
Just a quick reminder that Kay Sidebottom (University of Stirling) will be giving a seminar tomorrow entitled "Pedagogies of Attunement: Learning from More-Than-Human Teachers". Please see the abstract below. The meeting will take place in the Common Room with an option to join online (link below).
Abstract: Our current ecological predicament requires a shift to a post-anthropocentric educational paradigm in which we educate for and about a world that is not ‘for us,’ but comprised of a multitude of eco-systems of which we are simply a part. To facilitate this, education should be enacted differently; we need to experience learning not as furthering entrenched nature/culture binaries, but as ‘worlding’ processes, whereby imaginary divides between individual and environment are troubled, as humans and the material world are revealed to be relational and entangled (Braidotti, 2019). In this seminar I will share the story of a recent research project which in which participants (both human and non-) came together to explore what happens when we cease to privilege humans as the ultimate instructors and holders of knowledge. In doing so we disrupted normative research methodologies, drawing on an ethics of care and relationality which extended the ‘teacher’ role to non-human kin such as water, plants and animals.
MSTeams link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…
Spring Semester speakers:
Date
Time
Speaker
Format
31/01/2024
16:00
Kay Sidebottom (Stirling)
F2F/hybrid
07/02/2024
09:00
Mike Huffman (Kyoto)
Online
14/02/2024
16:00
Amaya Albalat (Stirling)
Talk F2F/hybrid
21/02/2024
16:00
Kirsten Blakey (Stirling)
Talk F2F/hybrid
28/02/2024
16:00
TBC
06/03/2024
No meeting (reading week)
13/03/2024
16:00
TBC
20/03/2024
16:00
Impact research catch up (core BERGers)
F2F
27/03/2024
16:00
Sylvain Lamoine (Cambridge)
Online
03/04/2024
16:00
TBC
F2F
10/04/2024
16:00
Matti Wilks (Edinburgh; TENTATIVE will confirm in Jan)
F2F
17/04/2024
16:00
Victor Shirimizu (Strathlyde)
F2F
24/04/2024
16:00
Lifespan equipment demonstration. F2F
01/05/2024
16:00
Victoria Lee (SRUC)
F2F/hybrid
Best wishes,
Pawel
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Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his)
Lecturer in Psychology
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)
Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844<tel:+441786467844>
Twitter: @fedurekp<https://twitter.com/fedurekp> @BERG_Stirling<https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling>
Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…>
I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday).
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Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Dear BERGers,
Just a quick reminder that Alex Sanchez will be giving a seminar today about his research. Please see the abstract below. The meeting will take place in the Common Room with an option to join online (link below). Hope to see many of you soon!
Title: On how captive socio-ecology influences captive chimpanzees’ competitiveness and other curiosities
Abstract: In this talk, I would like to present ongoing work on the effect of socio-ecological variables such as rank and bonding on captive chimpanzees' predispositions to compete with other in-group members. This study stems from the EVApeCognition initiative, a collaborative effort to publish over 240 datasets from work conducted with great apes in the Leipzig Zoo over the last 20 years.
MSTeams link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…
Best wishes,
Pawel
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Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his)
Lecturer in Psychology
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)
Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844<tel:+441786467844>
Twitter: @fedurekp<https://twitter.com/fedurekp> @BERG_Stirling<https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling>
Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…>
I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday).
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Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Dear BERGers,
I hope that you are all well and you had a good start to the new year. This is to let you know that we are resuming our BERG seminars next week (Wednesday, 24 January, 4pm), with our new BERGer, Alex Sanchez, giving a talk for us about his research. The meeting will take place in the Common Room (hybrid) - I hope to see many of you there!
Spring Semester schedule:
Date
Time
Speaker
Format
24/01/2024
16:00
Alex Sanchez (Stirling)
F2F/hybrid
31/01/2024
16:00
Kay Sidebottom (Stirling)
F2F/hybrid
07/02/2024
09:00
Mike Huffman (Kyoto)
Online
14/02/2024
16:00
Amaya Albalat (Stirling)
Talk F2F/hybrid
21/02/2024
16:00
Kirsten Blakey (Stirling)
Talk F2F/hybrid
28/02/2024
16:00
TBC
06/03/2024
No meeting (reading week)
13/03/2024
16:00
TBC
20/03/2024
16:00
Impact research catch up (core BERGers)
F2F
27/03/2024
16:00
Sylvain Lamoine (Cambridge)
Online
03/04/2024
16:00
TBC
F2F
10/04/2024
16:00
Matti Wilks (Edinburgh; TENTATIVE will confirm in Jan)
F2F
17/04/2024
16:00
Victor Shirimizu (Strathlyde)
F2F
24/04/2024
16:00
Lifespan equipment demonstration. F2F
01/05/2024
16:00
Victoria Lee (SRUC)
F2F/hybrid
Best wishes,
Pawel
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Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his)
Lecturer in Psychology
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)
Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1786 467844<tel:+441786467844>
Twitter: @fedurekp<https://twitter.com/fedurekp> @BERG_Stirling<https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling>
Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…>
I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday).
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Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Hi BERGers/SHAIRers,
Anyone interested in a PhD on pig welfare in Canada? See below…
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I hope you are well. As part of the communication in the UFAW community and Link Network, can the following opportunity please be circulated with the global UFAW Link Network listserve and if available, posted on the UFAW website? I share this on behalf of a colleague, and we are involved in the work.
There is 4 x year doctoral student opportunity at the University of Laval, QC, in the area of piglet welfare. Details are in the link below, and there is an option to translate the page in google.
Project title: "Evaluation of the impact of management practices on the weaning, handling, and transportation of weaned piglets" in the field of animal welfare, scheduled to start in March 2024.
The selected student will receive a scholarship covering the entire duration of the 4-year project. Detailed specifications of the project are available at the link below: Projet de recherche : Évaluation de l'impact des pratiques de gestion du sevrage, de la manipulation et du transport des porcelets sevrés | Université Laval (ulaval.ca)<http://ubcpf.smtptrack.com/tracking/qaR9ZGt1BQtmZQRkAQN0AGt5AQL1AvM5qzS4qaR…>
Thank you all for helping a keen candidate find their ideal position in animal welfare research!
Best regards
Yolande
Yolande Seddon, PhD
Associate Professor, Swine Behaviour and Welfare
NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Swine Welfare |?? MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "ubcpf.smtptrack.com" claiming to be swinewelfare.com<http://ubcpf.smtptrack.com/tracking/qaR9ZGt1BQtmZQRkAQN0AGt5AQL1AvM5qzS4qaR…> ??
University of Saskatchewan
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Western College of Veterinary Medicine
52 Campus Drive, Room 2537
Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5B4
Ph: 306-966-7151 | yolande.seddon(a)usask.ca
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Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Dear all,
The Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED) project has organised two upcoming events that may be of interest to some of you. The details and registrations links can be found below.
Public Lecture<https://ared.stir.ac.uk/engagement/>
First, we will host a public lecture by Professor Mark Rowlands on 31st January at the university.
World on Fire: Climate, Extinction, Pandemic
The world is currently facing three epoch-defining crises: climate change, mass extinction and newly emerging infectious diseases. While these crises may seem very different, they are, in fact, deeply connected. Understanding this connection allows us to identify the best way to solve all three of them.
You can register for the public lecture here.<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9wmNTnnMy0yRSaQjjdF0IqU…>
Workshop<https://ared.stir.ac.uk/events/>
Second, there will be a workshop on 1st and 2nd February, this will be run in a hybrid format at the university and online.
Propositional thought and truth-functional reasoning
Despite widespread practice in cognitive and comparative psychology to ascribe beliefs and other propositional attitudes to very young children and non-human animals, the nature of such attitudes remains a matter of controversy. Some have suggested that they might involve imagistic or map-like representations rather than propositional ones. Others have emphasized the difficulty of individuating the concepts possessed and entertained by minimally verbal and non-verbal subjects and went on to question the accuracy and legitimacy of ascriptions of propositional attitudes to them. As truth-functional reasoning involves representational mechanism that go beyond the demonstrative-governed mechanisms characteristic of perception, the capacity for truth-functional reasoning is often taken to be a sign of propositional thought. Recent empirical research provides some evidence of truth-functional reasoning in non-human animals and young children, as the studies on children’s use of denial-negation and disjunctive syllogism in both animals and children illustrate. Nevertheless, in many cases explanations not involving propositional thought and deductive reasoning have been proposed by sceptics.
In the third ARED workshop we engage with the issue of propositional thought and ascriptions thereof in non-verbal and minimally verbal subjects, together with its relation to truth-functional reasoning.
Speakers: Josep Call, Laura Danon, Roman Feiman, Hans Glock, Juliane Kaminski, Brian Leahy, Angela Nyhout and Mark Rowlands.
Participation can be online or in person. Please register here<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=9wmNTnnMy0yRSaQjjdF0IqU…> or send an email to ared(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:ared@stir.ac.uk> by January 24th 2024, indicating whether you wish to attend in person or online.
Best wishes,
Kirsten
Dr Kirsten H Blakey (she/her)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Philosophy & Psychology, University of Stirling
Address: Cottrell building 3W1, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA
Email: k.h.blakey1(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:k.h.blakey1@stir.ac.uk> | Staff webpage<http://www.stir.ac.uk/people/267453> | Personal webpage<https://kirstenhblakey.weebly.com/>
ARED Project<https://ared.stir.ac.uk/> | Postdoctoral representative, Psychology Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee<https://edicpsy.stir.ac.uk/>
Office hours: Monday and Friday 11:00 - 12:00
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Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159