{"id":267,"date":"2026-08-26T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:16:33","slug":"programme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/animalsintranslation\/conference\/programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 1 – Thursday 1 October 2026<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time<\/span><\/th>\nSession<\/span><\/th>\nLocation<\/span><\/th>\nDuration<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:15<\/span><\/td>\nRegistration<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\nAll day<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:45\u20139:00<\/span><\/td>\nWelcome and opening remarks:<\/strong> Delphine Grass (Lancaster University)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n15 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00\u201310:00<\/span><\/td>\nKeynote 1: Eva Meijer, \u2018The Politics of Translating Animal Languages\u2019<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00\u201310:25<\/span><\/td>\nCOFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n25 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:25\u201311:55<\/span><\/td>\nPanel 1: Translation, Linguistics, and Machine Learning<\/strong>
\n<\/span>\u2018How Far Can We Go with AI Translation Across Species?\u2019, Claire Larsonneur (University of Paris 8)
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\n\u2018Vocal Human-Animal Interaction\u2019, Beatrice Szczepek Reed (Lancaster University)
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\n\u2018Temporal Metaphors, AI Translation, and Ecological Time: A Comparative MQM Study of Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnets\u2019, Daniele Duscovich (Alma Mater Europaea University)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT16<\/span><\/td>\n90 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:55\u201312:45<\/span><\/td>\nLUNCH<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n50 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:45\u201313:35<\/span><\/td>\nPanel 2: \u2018Why We Need Animal Translation Studies\u2019<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Delphine Grass (Lancaster University), Becca Franks (NYU), Celine Germond-Duret (Lancaster University), Christine Webb (NYU), Carolyn Pedwell (Lancaster University), Lauri Torgerson-White (NYU)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT16<\/span><\/td>\n50 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:35\u201314:35<\/span><\/td>\nPanel 3: Soundscapes, Extractivism, and Environmental Activism<\/strong>
\n<\/span>\u2018Mangrove in\/as Soundscapes: Botanical Agency and Ecomusical Activism in Musical Mangroves (2020)\u2019, Vishal Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology, Patna)
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\n\u2018Listening Closely: Extractivism, Translation and Sonic Thinking in Olhe Bem As Montanhas (Ana Vaz, 2018)\u2019, Catriona Parry (University of Oxford)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT16<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:35\u201315:05<\/span><\/td>\nCOFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n30 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:05\u201316:35<\/span><\/td>\nPanel 4: Sensing the non-Human World: AI Mediations<\/strong>
\n<\/span>\u2018The Risks and Opportunities of the Media Representation of AI for Nonhuman Animal Communication\u2019, Bernice Bovenkerk & Caatje Kluskens (Wageningen University)
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\n\u2018Epistemic Redundancy and Animal Welfare: Why We Should Not Expect AI Use in Livestock Settings to Increase Welfare\u2019, Mika Smith (University of California San Diego)
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\n\u2018Beyond Decoding: Everyday Practices of Interspecies Translation\u2019, Nathalie Muffels (Wageningen University)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n90 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:35\u201316:40<\/span><\/td>\nSHORT BREAK<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n5 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:40\u201317:40<\/span><\/td>\nKeynote 2: Ursula Heise (UCLA), \u2018Aliens, Animals and AI\u2019<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:40\u201317:45<\/span><\/td>\nDay 1 Closing remarks<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n5 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:45\u201319:00<\/span><\/td>\nReception (Informal) \u2013 Pizzas, Olives and Dips<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS<\/span><\/td>\n75 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19:00\u201320:00<\/span><\/td>\nPerformance: Khairani Barokka<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Day 2 – Friday 2 October 2026<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time<\/span><\/th>\nSession<\/span><\/th>\nLocation<\/span><\/th>\nDuration<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
9:00<\/span><\/td>\nRegistration<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\nAll day<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30\u201310:30<\/span><\/td>\nKeynote 3: C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez-Garavito (New York University): \u2018Listening to our Animal Kin: Opportunities, Risks, and Guardrails in AI-Assisted Animal Communication Studies\u2019<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30\u201310:50<\/span><\/td>\nCOFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n20 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:50\u201312:20<\/span><\/td>\nPanel 5: Conservation, Listening and Ecological Networks<\/strong>
\n<\/span>\u2018Risk beyond Human Eyes: Situating Systemic Risk Assessment and Response within Animal-Centric Testimony\u2019, Thomas Deacon & Philip Tovey (ASRA)
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\n\u2018Listening to the Seabed: The Politics of Translating Polyphonic Deep-sea Thought and Practice\u2019, John Childs & Philipa Louey (Lancaster University)
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\n\u2018Transformation as Translation: Therianthropic Law in San Human-Animal Relations\u2019, Saskia Vermeylen & Luke Kaplan (University of Strathclyde)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT16<\/span><\/td>\n90 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:20\u201313:20<\/span><\/td>\nLUNCH<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:20\u201314:20<\/span><\/td>\nKeynote 4: \u015eebnem Susam-Saraeva (University of Edinburgh), \u2018Reconceptualising Reciprocity in Interspecies Communication: A posthuman and Eco\/feminist Translation Ethics\u2019<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT17<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:20\u201314:30<\/span><\/td>\nSHORT BREAK<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n10 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30\u201315:30<\/span><\/td>\nPanel 6: Public Engagement and Technologies of Interspecies Understanding<\/strong>
\n<\/span>\u2018AI to Advance Interspecies Understanding: Global Public Perspectives to Inform Risks and Opportunities\u2019, Laura Hay (Collective Intelligence Project) & Jane Lawton (Earth Species Project)
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\n\u2018Animal Representation and the Legitimacy of AI Translation\u2019, Melanie Challenger (Animals in the Room)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT16<\/span><\/td>\n60 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30\u201316:00<\/span><\/td>\nCOFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS<\/span><\/td>\n30 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00\u201317:30<\/span><\/td>\nPanel 7: Machine Vision, Digital Twining, Multispecies Governance<\/strong>
\n<\/span>\u2018Algorithmic Ontologies: AI, Machine Vision and the Governance of Multispecies Worlds\u2019, Juan Martin Dabezies (Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica, Uruguay) & Valerie Nelson (University of Greenwich)
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\n\u2018Who Speaks for the Forest? AI Translation, Digital Twins, and Multispecies Governance\u2019, Feja Lesniewska (University of Surrey)
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\n\u2018From Biological Information to Animal Voice: Why Law May Not Be Ready for AI Translation\u2019, Miaomiao Tian (Lancaster University)
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		LUMS, LT16<\/span><\/td>\n90 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:30\u201317:45<\/span><\/td>\nDay 2 Closing remarks<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nLUMS, LT16<\/span><\/td>\n15 min<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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