Animal Ethics Workshop

On the 28th and 29th of April 2025, The Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics (GRÉEA) and the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ) are organizing a virtual workshop on key ethical issues concerning the moral responsibilities of human beings toward nonhuman animals.

Program

April 28, 2025

8:30-10:00 AM PT // 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET // 4:30-6:00 PM GMT 

Richard Healey & Angie Pepper, “Against Interspecies Politics”

10:15-11:45 AM PT // 1:15 – 3:45 PM ET // 6:15 – 7:45 PM GMT

Will Gildea, “What Makes Us Matter: Sentience and (a Bit) Beyond”

April 29, 2025

8:30-10:00 AM PT // 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET // 4:30-6:00 PM GMT 

Davide Pala & Matthew Perry, “Licencing Pet-keeping”

10:15-11:45 AM PT // 1:15 – 3:45 PM ET // 6:15 – 7:45 PM GMT

Angie Pepper, “Interspecies Companionship: Dominance, Desire, and Structural Injustice”

Please register here before April 16 to receive the zoom link as well as the papers that are to be read in advance of the workshop. 

This event is organized and chaired by Kristin Voigt & Valéry Giroux.