Tag: Global South

Animal Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Society

Conference proceedings published: Humans and Other Animals

In December 2024, Motlatsi Khosi, Kala Bopape, and I organized an international animal ethics conference, Humans and Other Animals: Rattling the Paradigm, with the aim of creating a space where students and early career practitioners, particularly from the Global South, could meet and explore the complex relationship between humans and other animals.

After the conclusion of the conference, the presenters were invited to work their presentations into publishable papers. The result is a special issue of the Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, which has just been published and is available here. It contains the following articles, all of which are open access:

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Animal Ethics, Philosophy

Humans and Other Animals: Rattling the Paradigm

Two colleagues at the University of South Africa – Motlatsi Khosi and Kala Bopape – and I are organizing an international animal ethics conference for students and early career practitioners, which will be held online on December 17, 18, and 19, 2024.

The conference is organized around three themes:

  • Philosophy and Ethical Theory
  • Activism and Community-centered Approaches
  • Cultural Production, Art, and Performance

78 abstracts from numerous countries were submitted in response to our call for abstracts, out of which nine were selected for presentation. On each conference day, there will be three sessions of 45 minutes.

The conference language is English. Attendance is free, and anybody anywhere is welcome to join! If you would like to attend, please register using this form no later than Friday, December 13, 2024.

You can find the complete program on our conference website. For a PDF copy, please click here. A poster is available here.

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