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SUMMARY:Can we talk to animals?
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Sh
 eikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 7 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerDr Julie ElieDiscu
 ssantsDr Irene PepperbergProfessor Yossi YovelChairProfessor Jonathan Birc
 hIn this special event\, the 2026 winner of the Coller Dolittle Prize Juli
 e Elie\, will present her work on decoding the language of zebra finches.T
 his will be followed by a panel discussion\, exploring cutting‑edge deve
 lopments in understanding animal cognition\, emotion and welfare\, and con
 sidering their implications for science\, ethics and policy.Meet our speak
 ers and chairJulie Elie is an Associate Project Scientist at University of
  California\, Berkeley. Her research examines communication sounds and the
  neural control of vocal production and perception\, focussed on zebra fin
 ches and Egyptian fruit bats. She holds a Bachelor and Master in Molecular
  and Cell Biology from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and completed her 
 PhD in Saint Etienne.Irene Pepperberg is a Research Professor at Boston Un
 iversity and has authored nearly 200 peer‑reviewed publications\, The Al
 ex Studies and the bestseller Alex & Me. She has received Guggenheim\, Sel
 by and Radcliffe Fellowships\, the Christopher Clavius Award and the 2020 
 Comparative Cognition Society Research Award. For almost 50 years\, she ha
 s trained Grey parrots to use English speech referentially and employed th
 is to examine their intelligence.Yossi Yovel is a Professor in the Departm
 ent of Zoology at Tel-Aviv University since 2011. He was trained as an und
 ergrad in physics and biology. He received a masters in Neurobiology from 
 Tel-Aviv University and a PhD in biology from Tuebingen University in Germ
 any.Jonathan Birch is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the new Je
 remy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE. In 2021\, he led a "Review
  of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustacea
 ns" that led to invertebrate animals including octopuses\, crabs and lobst
 ers being included in the UK government's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act. 
 In 2024\, he published The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in human
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 annel.The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is dedicated to improv
 ing the lives of non-human animals through interdisciplinary\, impact-orie
 nted research across the natural sciences\, social sciences and humanities
 . It is a research unit within LSE Philosophy\, with this event being part
  of the departmental “Philosophy Live” series.Hosted by the Jeremy Col
 ler Foundation in partnership with Tel-Aviv University\, the Coller Dolitt
 le Prize celebrates outstanding research advancing the science of animal s
 entience. The Prize is a multi-year challenge with an annual award recogni
 sing significant scientific research that supports the aim of interspecies
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