2nd Swiss Animal-Environmental Ethics Network Meeting

The second "Swiss Animal-Environmental Ethics Network Meeting” takes place on 9th of November 2023 at the University of Fribourg (Campus Pérolles).

Issues related to animal and environmental ethics are increasingly at the center of political, societal, and academic debates. In times of emerging zoonotic disease outbreaks and climate change, the question of what humans owe to nature and animals is one of the most pressing issue humanity is currently facing. In Switzerland, research in both fields is undertaken at several institutions and different faculties and research groups that share common challenges and overlapping research interests. 

The goal of this meeting and hopefully future meetings is to facilitate networking between different institutions and researchers working in the field of animal and/or environmental ethics in Switzerland. The goal of this one-day meeting is to give researchers in these fields an opportunity to present and inform each other about their ongoing and future projects. Furthermore, the event aims to establish new collaborations and synergies for research, teaching and funding opportunities, and facilitate an exchange about where future challenges lie with regards to the ethics of human-animal-environmental relations and other pressing environmental challenges.

We invite junior and senior researchers working in the field of animal and/or environmental ethics in Switzerland to propose contributions for this networking workshop by submitting a 500-word abstract via this site (see below). Contributions in the form of a presentation of either current or future (or both) projects should be approximately 15-20 min long and will followed by time for discussion. Deadline for submissions was 3. September 2023.

• 9:40-10:05 Damien Delorme, Gérald Hess, Esteban Arcos (University of Lausanne): Ecology in the First Person: Theme and Variations
• 10:05-10:30 Nicole Lühti (University of Zurich): Research on Humans and Animals - a Comparison of Human Research and Animal Experimentation Law
• 10:30-10:55 Kirsten Persson, Christian Rodriguez Perez (University of Basel): The “Evolutionary Scale” in Swiss Animal Welfare Law: Survival of the Fittest?
• 11:20-11:45 David Rozen (University of Fribourg/ Pardubice): Attitudes Toward Nature and Destructive Environmental Behavior: The Dialectic of Extractivism and Romanticism and Beyond
• 11:45-12:10 Dominic Roser (University of Fribourg): Economic Growth and Animal Ethics
• 12:10-12:35 Markus Wild (University of Basel): 
  Wild Animal Suffering: Epistemological Assumptions and Monitorism
• 13:50-14:15 Tristan Katz (University of Fribourg): Reducing Wild Animal Suffering Effectively Requires a Coherent Theory of Change
• 14:15-14:40 Simon Kräuchi and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer (University of Fribourg): Taking Limits of Societies Seriously: Distinguishing Entitlements for Adaptation and Loss and Damage Action Fairly
• 15:00-15:25 Ilias Voiron (University of Fribourg / Jean-Moulin-Lyon-III): Grounding Individual Duties of Climate Justice on General Individual Duties of Justice
• 15:25-15:50 Friderike Spang (University of Lausanne): The Role of Compromise for Climate Policy Support
• 15:50-16:15 Fabienne Huber (University of Fribourg) : Comparative Interdisciplinary and Educational-Theoretical Meanings of the Environment and Natural Relationships in the Context of the Climate Catastrophe
• 16:40-17:05 Nico Müller (University of Basel 
  The Problem of Opportunity Costs in Animal Research
• 17:05-17:30 Anna Deplazes Zemp (University of Zurich): Valuing nature as ‘an Other’ in natureculture

In case of questions, please email to simon.kraeuchi@unifr.ch.