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Animals in Political Decision-Making
The workshop seeks to explore the question of how animals can be adequately represented in political decision-making.
- Date
- Le 29 mai 2024
- Horaires
- De 08:00 à 16:00
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Workshop “Animals in Political Decision-Making”
The workshop seeks to explore the question of how animals can be adequately represented in political decision-making. In particular, the question arises of how animals can be thought to influence political decisions that affect them, but that, as of yet, are made without their consent.
Venue: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: May 29th, 2024
Format: In-person
Confirmed speakers in alphabetical order:
Angela Martin, University of Basel: “Human deliberation and animal representation”
Charlotte Blattner, University of Bern: “From constitutional animal law toward interspecies constitutionalizing”
Friderike Spang, University of Lausanne: “Representing animals: A double role for deliberation”
Leonie Bossert, University of Tübingen: “Overcoming speciesist biases: Using AI to foster interspecies justice”
Pablo Magaña, Nova University Lisbon : “Nonhuman animals in Rawlsian political philosophy: Conflict and accommodation”
Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University: “Three versions of animal politics: Politics on behalf of animals; politics by animals; politics with animals”
Everyone interested is cordially invited! To register, please send a message simply with the subject “Registration Workshop May 2024” to Friderike.spang@unil.ch, until April 2nd, 2024. Confirmations will be sent out after this date, together with the workshop program.
Please be advised that due to the in-person format, spaces are limited.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me at Friderike.spang@unil.ch.