Symposium Schedule | June 2024
20Thursday
The thumb and the trunk:
Experimental and observational insights into non-human primates and elephants' death awarenesss
Hybrid Event -- Time-zone [JST]
21Friday
Silent antenna, rustling feather:
Lessons from the lab to the field, from insect thanatosis to avian thanatology
09:00 - 09:15 - INTRO & REGISTRATION
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Keynote Talk:
09:20 - Are non-human animals likely to have a
concept of death?
Susan Carey, Harvard University*
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10:05 - 12:05 - SESSION 1: Perceptive Primates
Chair: André Gonçalves
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10:05 - Suicide is Panless: Why Chimpanzees
Never Kill Themselves
James Anderson, Kyoto University
10:45 - Prospective Studies of Primates' Responses
to Death
Alecia Carter, University College London
11:25 - How Chimpanzees Perceive Death-stimuli
André Gonçalves, Kyoto University
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12:05 - 13:30: Lunch Break
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13:30 - 14:25 - SESSION 2: Lightning Talks*
Chair: Sarv Dashti
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14:30 - 16:50 - SESSION 3: Elusive Elephants-Equids
Chair: Alecia Carter
14:30 - Equid Responses to Bones and Carcasses
Leanne Proops, University of Portsmouth
15:10 - Dead Calf Carrying in Asian Elephants
Sanjeeta S. Pokharel, Kyoto University
15:50 - Sexual Dimorphisms in Behavioural Responses
to a Poached Conspecific in Forest Elephants
Claudia Stephan, Friedrich-Alexander University*
16:20 - The Curious Case of Elephant Burials
Nachiketha Sharma, Kyoto University
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*Online Talk
09:00 - 09:15 - INTRO & REGISTRATION
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Keynote Talk:
09:20 - Animal Grief: Perspectives from
Anthropology and Activism
Barbara J. King, William & Mary*
10:05 - 12:30 - SESSION 4: Imperative Invertebrates
Chair: Sanjeeta Pokharel
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10:05 - The Thanatosis of Beetles
Takahisa Myatake, Okayama University
10:45 - From cannibalism to burial: corpse management
in termite societies
Qian Sun, Louisiana St. University*
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11:25 - 12:25 - SESSION 5: Lightning Talks*
Chair: Nahoko Tokuyama
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12:25 - 13:30: Lunch Break
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13:30 - 14:30 - SESSION 6: Brilliant Birds
Chair: Nachiketha Sharma
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13:30 - Death as an indicator of risk in the Scrub Jay
Teresa Iglesias, Okinawa Inst. Sci. Tech.
14:10 - The Understanding of Irreversible
Non-functionality in Goffin's Cockatoos
Antonio Osuna-Mascaró, Vetmeduni*
14:50 - 16:20 - WORKSHOP
14:50 - What could future thanatology look like?
Alecia Carter, University College London
20th THURSDAY
LIGHTNING TALKS I
13:30-14:18
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13:30 - A Case of Maternal Cannibalism in Macaca
fuscata
Yu Kagaishi, Kyoto University
13:42 - Responses to the Corpse in Wild Stump-tailed
Macaques in Thailand
Aru Toyoda, Japan Monkey Centre
13:54 - Reaction to Dead Conspecific by E. Mapgies
Olha Brezghunova, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv
National Pedagogical University*
14:06 - Response of Irrawady Dolphins to a dead
conspecific
Amy Jones, Environmental Research Institute*
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21th FRIDAY
LIGHTNING TALKS II
11:25-12:23
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11:25 - Do People Believe Non-human Animals Grieve?
Heather King, Rice University*
11:47 - A Concept of Death in Genus Pan: Implications
for Human Evolution
Katherine H. McLean, University of Auckland*
11:59 - Exploring Japanese Children's Knowledge of
Death
Aoi Miyagawa, Kyoto University
12:11 - Chimpanzees' Behavioural Reactions to
Putrescine: A Chemical Cue of Death
Hanling Yeow, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology
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*Online Talk