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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: The Ethics of Animal Shelters (2023\, OUP)
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DESCRIPTION:<p>On June 28th&nbsp\;2023\, 10 am&ndash\;1 pm (EDT) you are invited to join us online in celebrating the publication of&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:Clicktarget="><em>The Ethics of Animals Shelters</em>&nbsp\;(2023\, OUP)</a>\, edited by Val&eacute\;ry Giroux (Centre for Research in Ethics)\, Angie Pepper (University of Roehampton)\, and Kristin Voigt (McGill University).&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>This edited volume addresses some of the many ethical challenges facing those who work tirelessly rescuing\, rehabilitating\, and rehoming animals in need.&nbsp\;The book\, which is the outcome of a collaboration between a group of ethicists and the&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Montreal SPCA</a>\, offers practical recommendations to those managing and working in animal shelters and examines the philosophical underpinnings of those recommendations.&nbsp\;Topics covered include adoption policy\, euthanasia and non-euthanasia killing\, medical decision-making\, shelter animal diets\, and shelters&rsquo\; role in transforming social norms and attitudes.&nbsp\;The volume's contributors include&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Fr&eacute\;d&eacute\;ric C&ocirc\;t&eacute\;-Boudreau</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Nicolas Delon</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">&Eacute\;lise Desaulniers</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Val&eacute\;ry Giroux</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Sue Donaldson</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Fran&ccedil\;ois Jaquet</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Will Kymlicka</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Angela Martin</a>\,&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Angie Pepper</a>\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Agnes Tam</a>\, and&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Kristin Voigt</a>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The&nbsp\;launch&nbsp\;event&nbsp\;will involve a brief introduction to the project and the book by the volume editors&nbsp\;and the current interim director of the Montreal SPCA\, Me&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Sophie Gaillard</a>&nbsp\;This will be followed by a series of critical comments presented by&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Lori Gruen</a>&nbsp\;(Wesleyan University)\,&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Karen Heistand</a>&nbsp\;(Royal Veterinary College)\,&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">Jessica du Toit</a>&nbsp\;(Western University)\,&nbsp\;and responses by&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;volume contributors.&nbsp\;The event will conclude with a general Q &amp\; A session.</p>\n<p>The event&nbsp\;is&nbsp\;free\, and everyone interested in the project is welcome\, but please register&nbsp\;<a  title="Original    URL:target=">here</a>&nbsp\;to receive the Zoom link:&nbsp\;https://umontreal.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArde-pqzMvE9L-U9137yZCEj-rZTD-fx-Y#/registration</p>\n<p>OUP is offering a 30% discount code&nbsp\;AAFLYG6&nbsp\;for those who wish to purchase the book here.&nbsp\;</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Angie Pepper;CN=Kristin Voigt;CN="Valéry Giroux":
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