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Programme
The Conference will begin with registration on Friday
afternoon. Full procedings start at 10.00am in the Melina Mercouri Hall on the
harbourside. The conference will end with a “farewell” session on Sunday
evening.
The island is served by excellent ferry services,
with many sailings per day, including evening sailings.
The official language of the Conference is English.
In cases of necessity we shall make informal translation arrangements
available.
LIST OF SPEAKERS AND PAPERS [Alphabetical order]
GEORGIOS ARSENOS [Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]:
“Saving the Greek Donkey”
JILL BOUGH [Australia]: “The Judas Collar
extermination programme in Australia” [Teleconferencing]
ED EMERY [Free University of Hydra]: “Donkey
and mule institutions in Europe and the Mediterranean”
MIRELLA GALLETTI [University of Naples, l’Orientale]:
“The Donkey in Kurdish Culture Past and Present”
SOZITA GOUDOUNA [Royal Holloway College, University of
London]: “The Donkey and Mule Culture of the Island of Hydra: Economic and
aesthetic considerations”
SAMEH HESHMAT [Society for the Protection of
Animal Rights in Egypt]: “The Condition and Care of Donkeys and Mules in Egypt”
LISA B. HUGHES [Colorado College]: “Unequally yoked:
The sex life of Apuleius’s accidental donkey”
SUSAN D. MARTIN [University of Tennessee]: “Donkeys,
Mules, and Overland Transport in Roman Italy”
JASON MELISSINOS [Athens]: “Sexology of Donkeys:
Three interviews”
PERE-MIQUEL PARÉS I CASANOVA [University of Catalunya]: "XIX
and XX Centuries in Catalunya, Spain: the Golden Age of Hypermetrical Catalan
mules".
TRAJKO PETROVSKI and VERA PETROVSKA: [Marko
Cepenkov Institute of Folklore, Skopje] “Beliefs and Anecdotes on the Donkey in
Rom Culture”
JUDY QUINN [Corfu Donkey Refuge]: “Donkey
welfare activity in Corfu, Greece”
IVÁN SALVÍA SEGUÉS [Director General of El Refugio del
Burrito]: “The Work of The Donkey Sanctuary”
JO-ANN
SHELTON [University
of California, Santa Barbara]: “Valued and Reviled: Contrasting images of
donkeys in ancient Greek and Roman Authors”
ALBERT SCHWEIZER [Austria]: “Donkey Societies in
Northern Europe”
PAUL STARKEY [University
of Reading]: “An
Overview of the Donkey and Mule in the Culture of the Mediterranean”
MARKO ŠUKLJE: [Slovenia] “Alternative saddles:
The efficient use of riding donkeys”
For the programme of our 2005 Conference see
www.geocities.com/donkeyconference/programme2005.html