Professor Kenneth Joel Shapiro – graduate of the Harvard University and Duke University, a renowned specialist in psychology, including psychology of animals, founder and Executive Director of Animals and Society Institute which aims at examining human-animals relations, the correlation of violence towards animals and people, promoting actions to protect animals.
Professor Shapiro is a cofounder and a coeditor of Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Society and animals: Journal of Human –Animal Studies.
Professor Kenneth Shapiro will visit Warsaw University of Technology in October 2012 and will be hosted by Professor Stanisław Janeczko and Professor Jerzy Axer, Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales”.