The Beastly Politics group at the University of Basel is organizing a two-day in person workshop on rethinking and reforming social institutions for sentient nonhuman animals on 7th & 8th of March 2024. The workshop’s topic is situated at the intersection of (animal) ethics and political philosophy.
In the last decade, the animal ethics literature took a political turn, and focused, amongst other things, on political and other social institutions and how they should be changed to be more inclusive of animals. For the workshop, we invite submissions that discuss how social institutions (such as governments, the legal system, but also the media, economy and the education system) should be reformed to properly include animals and their interests.
Confirmed speakers include Prof. Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield), Prof. Steve Cooke (University of Leicester) and Dr. Friderike Spang (University of Lausanne).
Speakers:
Alasdair Cochrane
University of Sheffield
Steve Cooke
University of Leicester
Angela K. Martin
University of Basel
Friderike Spang
University of Lausanne
Organisers:
Angela K. Martin
University of Basel
Emnée van den Brandeler
(unaffiliated)
Program
Day 1 Thursday 07.03.24
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
9:10-10:10 1. Institutional Virtues in the Zoopolis
Steve Cooke
Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Leicester, UK
10:10-11:10 2. The All-Affected Principle and (Its Democratic Extent of) Animals
David Mathias Paaske
PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 3. Exploring the systematic dimension of speciesism: a perspective from political and social philosophy
Sarah Zanaz
PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, France
12:30-14:15 Lunch break
Mandir, Schützenmattstrasse 2 CH-4051 Basel
14:15-15:15 4. (Animal) Politics, Human Deliberation and Animal Representation
Angela Martin
SNSF PRIMA Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Basel, Switzerland
15:15-16:15 5. Animals and Deliberative Institutions: The case of mini-publics
Friderike Spang
SNSF Senior Researcher, Centre of Public Law, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45 -17:45 6. Knowledge building is essential for the transition to just institutions for urban
animals
Ciska de Ruyver (Co-authors: Claire Diederich, Christel Moons, Karin Hannes)
Researcher, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University de Namur, Belgium
18:00 Dinner, Restaurant TBD
Day 2 Friday 08.03.2024
9:00-10:00 7. Animals, Innocence and the Institution of War
Alasdair Cochrane
Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations,
University of Sheffield, UK
10:00-11:00 8. Epistemic Responsibilities of Public Institutions in the Human-Animal
Relationship
Emnée van den Brandeler
SNSF PRIMA PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Basel, Switzerland
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:20 9. Animals, Institutions, and the problem of unwilling majorities
Nico Müller
Assistant / Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, University of Basel, Switzerlan
12:20-14:00 Lunch break
Restaurant TBD
14:00-15:00 10. Reforming the legal system: Including and protecting animals’ interests
Zorana Todorovic
Research Associate, University of Belgrade, Serbi
15:00-16:00 11. A bird in the hand is worth half in the courts: An account of animals’ legal invisibility
Serrin Rutlegde-Prior
Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Australia
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30 -17:30 12. Rethinking the Legitimate Grounds for Dietary Guidance from Medical
Professionals
Brian A. Berkey (co-author: Keri Rosen)
Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics
University of Pennsylvania, US
18:00 Dinner
CHOI Asian Garden, Feldbergstrasse 23, CH-4057