National Research Council (CNR)
Sala Convegni, via dei Marrucini (no street number)
19th-20th November

Links to join the conference “Cats Past and Present”.

Sapienza Università di Roma
Dipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali ISO
Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4
21st November

Links to join the conference “Cats Past and Present”. 

Cats are among the most popular pets in the world

• When, where, how and why were cats domesticated?
• What is their history?
• What is their role in traditional and non-traditional societies ?
• What is their relationship with Human beings?
• What is their relationships to domesticated and non-domesticated animals? 

The cat has been present in human communities for thousands of years but its history is so for poorly known.
In the last few years, data and hypotheses about cats have progressively increased, sometimes controversially, in various fields of research. However, the lack of exchange between scholars of different backgrounds has hampered a real advance in the study of the relationship between humans and cats.
This conference (which follows on from our previous conference on humans and dogs) aims at creating a platform for the exchange of practical and theoretical approaches for scholars from different fields of research (e.g. genetics, zoology, archaeology, archaeozoology, ethnoarchaeology, anthropology, ethnography, folklore, history of art, sociology, veterinary, psychology, ethnomusicology, literature, philosophy, comics) in arder to achieve a real interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective on the history of cats which will be pivotal for the future of research on this topic.

You can participate with:

• Oral Communication
• Poster
• Multimedia (video}

Abstracts of 500-600 words in English, 5 keywords, 5 references and 2 figures, should be sent before the 30 May 2025.

Organizers:
Francesca Lugli & Ivana Fiore (AIE - ltalian Association for Ethnoarchaeology) With:
Francesca Alhaique (Museo delle Civiltà, Rome}, Stefano Biagetti (University Pompeu Fabra, ICREA Barcelona), Claudia Minniti (Sapienza University of Rome), Daria Sanna (Dep. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari), Galina Sychenko (AIE - ltalian Association for Ethnoarchaeology), Ursula Thun Hohenstein (University of Ferrara}, Massimo Vidale (University of Padua).

Conference Participation Fees

·      Each presentation will last 15 minutes, with discussion held at the end of the sessions.

Registration must be completed using the following form by 12th November:
https://forms.gle/tvHtu8JNN8Quc6wL9

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