Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives

This workshop examines how practices of care might help address the persistent oppression of animals in contemporary societies. Care is often proposed as a way to illuminate vulnerability and shape relationships, yet its capacity to address animal oppression - both in everyday life and within political structures - remains insufficiently understood.

The workshop therefore asks what care can contribute to interspecies justice. Possible questions include, but are not limited to:

• How might caring attitudes draw attention to the lived experience of animals?
• How can care practices shift norms that have shaped human–animal relations?
• Can care serve as a form of repair for interspecies injustice?
• How might care inform political transformation and decision-making processes?

Contributions are invited from all relevant fields, such as animal ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, or environmental philosophy. Submissions from scholars from historically underrepresented groups and from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds are strongly encouraged.

The workshop forms part of a two-day program built around a visit from Alfonso Donoso (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) to Prague. Alfonso will give a public lecture on 19th February, to which all workshop participants are warmly invited, and he will also give a talk at the workshop.

Abstracts:
Please submit a short abstract of max. 150 words, including your name, affiliation, and email address, to [email protected] by December 31st 2025. Authors of selected abstracts will be informed in early January 2026. Limited funding for travel and accommodation is available and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.