In Other Tongues 2017 - In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language

Not intended to proscriptive or prescriptive, this list of topics suggests areas we are likely to explore. However we are open to all relevant ideas, from the philosophical to the most practical and pragmatic:
Interspecies language and theory
Song, cry and voice - utterance and performance
Language and understanding
Morality and ethics
Mourning, death and loss
Consciousness studies
Listening and non-human language
Non-human cognition and philosophy of mind
Mycaenae and forms of communication
Indigineity
Ritual, myth and metaphor
Post-Batesonian understandings of the world
Animals and play, interspecies gaming
Fairies, monsters, daemons, and gods: how we understood the world
Other understandings of natural phenomena
Ecolinguistics and human/animal relationships
Poiesis and other-than-human poetic gesture
Zoomorphism and anthropomorphism