Speakers:

• Tamara Džamonja Ignjatović, a psychologist and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade
• Ivana Živaljević, an archeologist and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad
• Jelena Ćeriman, a sociologist and a research fellow at the Institute for Philosphy and Social Theory
• Marija Branković, the author

ABOUT THE BOOK

The author introduces her study on the relations between humans and other animals by questioning why humans often disregard the capacities for thinking and feeling in other animals. She highlights some potential reasons – the need to justify the exploitation of other animals, the human fear of confronting mortality, and ideological and religious motives – then proceeds to investigate empirically which factors shape participants’ attitudes. For example, how does how we categorize other animals affect our moral judgment regarding their treatment? To what extent do people perceive their companion animals as different from animals used for food? What do people know about other animals’ mental and emotional capacities?

Tamara Džamonja Ignjatović is a psychologist and a Full Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. Her domain of expertise is Clinical Psychology with a focus on mental health, as well as social care and the role of social context for the issues of mental health. She is the current president of the Serbian Psychological Society.

Ivana Živaljević is an archeologist and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad. The domain of her expertise is Archaeozoology. Her research has been focused on various aspects of human-animal relations in the Mesolithic and Neolithic, mainly from an archaeozoological and anthrozoological perspective, but also incorporating stable isotope analysis, and ancient DNA analysis.

Jelena Ćeriman is a sociologist and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. Her current research is situated at the intersections of cultural and political sociology and includes comparative studies on family practices, social and civil society. She is a Coordinator of the Gender Research Laboratory.

Marija Branković is a psychologist, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications of Singidunum University in Belgrade. She conducts research in Social and Political psychology. She is currently named the Social Psychology Ambassador of the European Association of Social Psychology.

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