It was also an important moment for me, since I announced my final book series, “Interspecies Communication,” which closes a long chapter of my career and marks the beginning of a new joint project with Borderland Barks and etologi.dk, called “International Interspecies Studies,” a community you can read more about here: https://etologi.dk/iis/

 

Thank you very much for the invitation, for the opportunity to share my work, and for the kindness and welcome I received from all of you. Meeting colleagues and friends in person again, and others for the first time, sharing experience, disagreement, and different perspectives, and learning from each other, is what makes events of this kind necessary in the industry.

 

They stand apart from the turbulent noise of social media, where everything is conflated and extrapolated to a point sometimes devoid of any trace of humanity, and offer hope that change begins in each of us, away from a keyboard or a prompt, in how we look at reality and, hopefully, in the attitude we bring to it.