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Sindhoor Pangal

Sindhoor is a canine behaviour consultant, a canine myotherapist, an anthrozoologist and an engineer by qualification. She researches free living dogs in Bangalore, India. She is a TEDx speaker and the author of the book, Dog Knows. Sindhoor quit her corporate life to pursue a career in working with dogs, after her dog Nishi met with an accident and needed special physical and emotional care. She worked as a behaviour and myotherapy consultant for companion dogs, but soon discovered her passion for studying free living dogs in India. Her insights have been published in the IAABC journal and the PPG blog in the US, was presented at the PDTE summit in the UK and was mentioned in the book Canine Confidential by Dr. Marc Bekoff and a National Geographic Bookazine called the Genius of dogs. She is also the principal and director of BHARCS. BHARCS offers a unique UK-accredited level 4 diploma on canine behaviour, which focuses on biosociopsychology and applied ethology.

While she wears many hats, Sindhoor’s favourite role has been being a mommy to two amazing dogs - Nishi (who recently passed away) and Cheeru, who she considers her inspiration and her greatest teacher.

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Details for the planned event for children on general safety around other animals coming soon.

What happens when we pay attention to non-human animals, and how can the fruits of that attention be expressed? Combining Midgley’s and Murdoch’s insights on poetry, attention, and the imagination, we will take a trip to Pardubice’s animal sanctuary Pohádková Zahrada (Fairytale Garden) to spend some time in attentive engagement with animals. After some exercises guided by the philosophy of attention, we will sit down among the animals for a poetry workshop, using different structural and thematic prompts. The poems may be shared freely by participants without any demand that they do so, and will be followed by an open discussion about the experience of attending to and with animals and of animal attention, exploring the specificities of a context where animals are, unusually in our society, not used for human purposes but free to pursue their own lives – albeit in a human-controlled setting. This experience will be followed by a panel conversation among some invited speakers at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the University of Pardubice.

Dr Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Senior Researcher at the CORE project, Department of Philosophy, University of Pardubice. She is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (Routledge 2022) and of a number of papers on attention, Murdoch, Weil, and animal ethics. She has co-edited and translated Simone Weil’s literary works (Bloomsbury 2019 and 2024)

Dr. Laura Candiotto is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Centre for Ethics of the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. Her main research field is philosophy of emotions. She leads the project "Vicious Epistemic Cultures" founded by the Czech Science Foundation and the Research Team “Loving is caring” at the Upce. She is also a member of the CORE project (WP7: Environmental Emotions in the Anthropocene). As a member of Mind and Life Europe, she is contributing to the development of an enactive ethics of sense-making grounded on affects as what disclose existential concerns and values, especially regarding environmental issues and shared sentience. For her publications, see centreforethics.upce.cz/en/doc-laura-candiotto-phd

The PhD students Lisa Hall and Nina Colin will also take part to the planned event. They are both working on animal and environmental ethics and education.

Programme details coming soon