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The field of veterinary medicine has long been overlooked by the humanities and the social sciences. Meanwhile, also due to the emergence of the interdisciplinary human-animal studies as well as the growing discourse of veterinary ethics, more and more research is looking at veterinary issues from the perspective of the humanities /social sciences. 

This network aims to connect fellow researchers and scholars working on topics surrounding veterinary medicine. These are, including but not limited, scholars from sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy or veterinary medicine itself who look at the discipline/the profession from other than only the natural scientific angle.

 If you want to join the networks email-list please subscribe here (if you already have an google-account) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/veterinary-humanities  or send an email to veterinary.medicine.studies[att]gmail.com with a request to be added. 

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Post-Conference Update

The recordings of the presentations can be received by writing an email request to the individual speakers. We left it for them to decide, if they want to publish  or distribute their recording. The first (online-)conference of the Network for Veterinary Humanities was a successful event, nonetheless to our wonderful speakers. With different backgrounds such as philosophy, sociology, literature studies and anthropology the speakers covered a wide range of topics. At the end of each panel, we had fruitful discussions, also together with scholars, who attended the online conference as listeners. In our final discussion round, perspectives for the future of veterinary humanities were elaborated. We are looking forward to the things to come, and to a 2nd conference, that is planned for the future. 

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Conference open for non-speakers

W e are happy to announce that it will be possible to attend our digital conference as a non-speaker. The conference:  Veterinary Humanities Network: Doing Animal Health in more-than-human worlds  will be held on  Thursday, 8th of October and Friday 9th of October . All given times in the program are referred to CET - please keep a possible time gap in mind!  There has been a slight change in our program: we will start already at 11:30 am with a welcome and a short introductory note. Accordingly, the Keynote by LUDEK BROZ, Praha, CZ will start at noon (CET).   Please find the current program here:  https://veterinary-humanities.blogspot.com/2020/08/doing-animal-health-in-more-than-human.html You can attend the conference through this link:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/ guest/ 258df1cd32b440d69a244d3e456ca8 51   We would encourage you to take part in the conference both days or at least one of the days, rather than only attend a par...