The Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics (GRÉEA) and the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ) are organizing a 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 – 2:45 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 – 2:45 PM ET // 6:15 – 7:45 PM GMT

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

To register and received the papers to be read in advance as well as the zoom link, please do it here before April 16.

Organized and chaired by Kristin Voigt & Valéry Giroux.