2025 Ethics and Animals pre-RoME Mini-Conference

Draft Schedule

August 6, 2025. CU-Boulder. Room TBA. All Times Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6:00).

 8:30-9:00: Welcome – coffee etc.

 9:00-9:50: Frauke Albersmeier (Münster), "Sentience Denial – What It Is and Why It Matters". Comments by Anton Skretta (Rice)

 10:00-10:50: Arshia Batra (University of Washington), "Becoming-inanimate, Becoming-human, Becoming-animal: The Objectification and (de)Familiarization of Captive Animals in Photography". Comments by Joel MacClellan (Loyola, New Orleans)

 11:00-11:50: Sabina Schrynemakers (Cornell), "The Misallocation Problem and Incommensurable Values". Comments by Ben Hole (College of Lake County)

 12:00-1:30: Lunch

 1:30-2:20: Panel: Animal Law. Stephen Hernick (Friends of Animals) and Steve Silverman (CU-Boulder)

 2:30-3:20: Dayton Martindale (CU-Boulder), "A Social and Political Case for Veganism". Comments by Ramona Ilea (Pacific)

 3:20-3:50: Short coffee break

 3:50-5:00: Panel: Animal Ethics: Recent Trends and Future Directions. Cheryl Abbate (UNLV), Yolandi Coetser (The North-West University), Bob Fischer (Texas State), Oscar Horta (Santiago de Compostela), Alastair Norcross (CU-Boulder). Moderator: Avram Hiller (Portland State)

For more information, please contact Avram Hiller at [email protected].
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