Loneliness and connection are often thought about in strictly human terms, but these states can go on to impact the larger ecologies we inhabit. Loneliness may also be more universal than we realize–aiding in the reconceptualization of human-animal-environmental relationships, and reinventing the future of human-nonhuman kinship. This track of the program explores these various dimensions, and asks specifically how loneliness may be experienced in animals, with animals, and beyond animals.