Training, seminars, conference, interview on religious slaughter, halal and kosher issues
Algeria     26-27-28 May  2009 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, Colloque "Les industries alimentaires entre l'avis religieux et les contraintes de marché , les composants importés et les additifs -FOREM - Université d'Alger.    Belgium 9th February 2010 - Advisory Board Dialrel meeting with representatives of the Dialrel project in Brussels  9-10th October 2008 - Mara Miele , Florence Bergeaud-Blackler - Working group on slaughter - Eurogroup for Animals workshop, Bruxelles.   28th May 2008 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler - Finding solutions to slaughter for religious purposes, Eurogroup for Animals, Biennial Plenary Session 2008- Bruxelles. 20th Decembre 2007 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler - L'abattage rituel en Europe, Présentation Séminaire du Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations, Université de Liège. Croatia  16 October 2007 - Haluk Anil Religious slaughter. The outcomes of the DIALREL Project: current status and perspectives, Training workshop on animal welfare concerning the stunning and killing of animals at slaughterhouses and in disease control situation, Zagreb, Croatia, October 2007. Egypt 6th March 2010 -  H. Anil, F Bergeaud-Blackler, M. Miele Halal Market, animal wefare  and religious rules Mansoura University and Al-Azhar University (Cairo).  20- 22 October 2008 -  A.Velarde, H. Anil, B. Cenci Goga, J.P. Frencia, B. Lambooij, K. Von Holleben, B.M. von Wenzlawowicz and A. Dalmau, Religious Slaughter in Europe (Poster), 2 nd OIE Global Conference on Animal Welfare, 'Putting the OIE Standards to Work’, Cairo. France  18-19th May 2009 - Karijn Bonne, Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, Wim Verbeke, "Religious food consumption : insights from focus groups with halal and kosher meat consumers in Belgium, France and the Netherlands.  International conference on immigration, consumption and markets, organised by LSMRC (University ofLille & ESC). 27th March 2009 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, "Abattage rituel et bien être animal", Séminaire de l'Institut Maghreb Europe, Université Paris8 Vincennes Saint Denis. 23rd October 2008 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, L'abattage rituel en Europe : pratique religieuse ou entreprise commerciale ? Séminaire ISLS1 Séminaires Thématiques Pluridisciplinaires Master 2 « Aire culturelle musulmane et sémitique » « Le religieux au quotidien », Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, Université de Provence, Aix en Provence. 1st April 2008 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, Workshop Towards a dialogue on religious slaughter issues in France Religious, Legal, Economical and Scientific, organised by A Votre Service. Paris. Pour un meilleur dialogue sur l’abattage rituel musulman en France Aspects religieux, juridiques, économiques et scientifiques Mardi 1er avril 2008. 29th march 2008 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, La garantie alimentaire "halal" vue par des consommateurs européens. 6e Colloque Institut Européen d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation : Informations et pratiques alimentaires  /  Information and food practices. 11 Février 2008 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler  - L'abattage halal industriel : (1) le sacrificateur , le vétérinaire et le chevillard , Séminaire Anthropologie comparative des sociétés musulmanes, Dir. M.Hocine Benkheira (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes); Pierre Bonte (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale), 11 Février , Collège de France, Paris. Germany   11 November 2009 - Martin von Wenzlawowicz  - Training for small butchers staff performing Halal-slaughter of sheep for different muslim communities in the federal state Hessen, as required for the certificate of competence by the German animal welfare at slaughter order. The training included applied animal welfare at slaughter without stunning as well as animal wefare at slaughter after electric stunning.  5 November 2008 – Martin von Wenzlawowicz, Karen von Holleben - Seminary for official veterinarians in Kassel “How to supervise/ control animal welfare at religious slaughter”, organised by the Academy of veterinary continuing education (of the Community of the German Veterinary Chambers and Veterinary Associations). The seminary included as well legal, religious and scientific aspects but mostly applied slaughter house aspects of welfare at ritual slaughter. 13/14 September 2008- Jörg Luy - “Judicial Evaluation of the German Dilemma: Freedom of Religion & Animal Welfare as Constitutional Mandates”, seminary organized within DIALREL WP1 in Berlin  22 August 2008 – Jörg Luy - “Ethical Evaluation of Political Options regarding Religious Slaughter”, seminary organized within DIALREL WP1 in Berlin  14th November 2007 – Martin von Wenzlawowicz, Karen von Holleben- Seminary for official veterinarians in Kassel “How to supervise/ control animal welfare at Halal slaughter”, organised by the Academy of veterinary continuing education (of the Community of the German Veterinary Chambers and Veterinary Associations as well as the Veterinary association for animal welfare (TVT e.V.). The seminary included as well legal, religious and scientific aspects but mostly applied slaughter house aspects of welfare at ritual slaughter. The dialrel project was introduced to multiplicators.  23rd July 2007 - Martin von Wenzlawowicz  - Training for small butchers staff performing Halal-slaughter for a company in the county Hessen, as required for the certificate of competence by the German animal welfare at slaughter order. The training included applied animal welfare at slaughter without stunning as well as animal wefare at slaughter after electric stunning.  28th November 2006 – Martin von Wenzlawowicz, Karen von Holleben - Seminary for official veterinarians in Münster: “How to supervise/ control animal welfare at Kurban bayrami”, organised by the Academy of veterinary continuing education (of the Community of the German Veterinary Chambers and Veterinary Associations as well as the Veterinary association for animal welfare (TVT e.V.). The seminary included as well legal, religious and scientific aspects but mostly applied slaughter house aspects of welfare at ritual slaughter. The dialrel project was introduced to multiplicators. Italy 5th - 6th March 2009 - Jörg Luy, Karen von Holleben - “Labelling of Meat from Slaughter Without Stunning”, paper to be presented at the Welfare-Quality conference “Knowing animals” in Florence 5th - 6th March 2009 - Dialrel consortium. Knowing Animals: cross-fertilisation between natural and social sciences for understanding the quality of life of animals. www.knowinganimals.org Palazzo dei Congressi (Villa Vittoria) http://www.firenzefiera.it 9th June 2008 - Beniamino Cenci Goga @ University of Perugia, Italy.  Ritual slaughter: knowledge to understand. Continuing education in medicine course for official veterinarians. Speakers: Beniamino Cenci Goga, Mara Miele (UK), Silvana Diverio, Beatrice Conti, Haluk Anil (UK), Antonio Cuccurese, Paolo Avellini, Andrea Verini, Livia Moscati, Daniela Beghelli, Cheryl McCrindle (South Africa), Antonio Velarde (Spain), Pasqualino Santori. Morocco 10-12th April 2008 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler - Les nouvelles consommations religieuses, in Colloque international "Visions du monde et modernités religieuses : regards croisés" Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Meknès. 15-17th December 2008 - Florence Bergeaud-Blackler - Nouvelles dynamiques migratoires en Méditerranée - Ecole doctorale de Meknes.
Portugal 18th April 2008 -  Florence Bergeaud-Blackler  The increasing level of exclusive halal consumption amongst Muslims in France and its possible consequences on public health, IMISCOE B5 workshop on ‘Migration, Integration and the Internationalisation of Healthcare’ which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 17th - 18th April Spain 27-31 July 2009, Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, International Society for the Sociology of Religion The Challenges Of Religious Pluralism, 30th International Conference of ISSR, Santiago de Compostela (Spain). 5-6 October 2006. Velarde, A. Dalmau, A, Ruiz de la Torre JL. Religious slaughter of farm animals. 15th Annual Conference of the International Society of Antrozoology. Barcelona (Spain). Turkey 15-16 March 2010. Dialrel meeting. Istanbul. June 2007. Haluk Anil & Yasin Tesildere Meetings held by P1 and P17 to discuss religious slaughter attended by meat producers. November 2007. Haluk Anil & Yasin Tesildere Meeting on religious festival and slaughter (Kurban) organised by the Turkish Veterinary Union June 2007. Haluk Anil & Yasin Tesildere Meeting of P1 and P17 with the Ministry of Agriculture officials in Turkey took place regarding activities and their support.
United Kingdom 21st February 2010, BBC Radio 4, Interview Mara Miele http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00qs4zv  28-30 March 2008 - Adrian Evans, Marc Higgin & Mara Miele - "A Good Kill: socio-technical organisations of farm animal slaughter" at the British Sociological Assocation Annual Conference - Social Worlds, Natural worlds. University of Warwick
USA 15-19 April 2008 - Adrian Evans, Marc Higgin & Mara Miele - "A Good Kill: socio-technical organisations of farm animal slaughter" at  Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. 15-19 April 2008. Boston, USA