25. Oktober: Animals: ethics, sustainability, sentience

Animals: ethics, sustainability, sentience
Host Institution: UK Centre for Human Animal Studies Conference

25 October, 2014: Ormskirk, Edge Hill University, UK
Keynote speakers: Elisa Aaltola, Jonathan Balcombe and Richard Twine

The Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS) will be holding its inaugural conference on Saturday 25th October 2014 at Edge Hill University. The conference will also mark the official launch of CfHAS, the first centre of its kind in the UK. Reflecting the expansion and intellectual vibrancy in the fields of animal studies, Critical Animal Studies, human-animal studies, and the science of animal emotion and cognition, this conference will have three broad but intersecting thematic strands: ethics, sustainability and sentience.

Contact: Claire Molloy at: Molloyc
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/conferences/