2. 2012

Peruvian lecture tour in August

In August I was invited by Peruvian organisation UPA to deliver a lecture tour on humane teaching methods, animal experimentation, the animal welfare standards of veterinarians, and other animal protection topics. They worked me hard – I delivered 20 main presentations primarily at four conferences, participated in eight veterinary and medical school meetings with faculty members, four alternatives exhibitions, and five press conferences and media interviews. However, they also fed me well, and gave me a little time off to explore the Andes (see pics). Don't miss the published story of this adventure! I'm grateful to Swiss organization AG STG for sponsoring the tour, and to InterNICHE for supplying the alternatives.
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    The six of us from Peru, along with the Tacna activists who organised the Tacna events (and our two mannequins!).
    That evening I delivered another less formal presentation for the local activists. As usual, my star translator Teresa is translating. She's completing a linguistics PhD at Rutgers University and is brilliant. I'd have been lost without her. By the end of the fortnight she hardly needed me to deliver my talks. The highlight came when, after a week of trying, I managed to pressure her into translating my frog 'croak' (from a computer simulation I was describing) in front of about 150 people, which she'd refused to do up until that point :)
    Finally, it was back to Lima, supposedly for a day of rest on my last day in Peru. But no - not with UPA running the show! With almost no warning, once again I was thrown into another talk. Some veterinary students at the Universidad Alas Peruanas had finally managed to get their university to agree to allow me to speak. And so we rushed down to this vet school at the edge of Lima for a final presentation.