2008 - 2014 Animal Ethics Lectures
The following lists Animal Ethics lectures from 2008 through 2014.
2013 - 2014
Chairperson: Susan Kopp, DVM, Bioethics Center Scholar, Professor of Health Science, LaGuardia Community College Veterinary Technology Program, City University of New York
Schedule
September 26: Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food and Community Ethics, Michigan State University
Public lecture: Food Nanotechnology as Emerging Technology: Framing the Ethical Issues (Co-sponsored with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and taking place at 309 Edwards St at 12:30 PM)
Seminar: Battery Cages vs. Free Range: Science and Ethics in the Development of Animal Welfare Standards for Egg Production
November 7: Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Haven
Seminar: The Case of the Animals vs. Man: A Medieval Islamic Vision of Pluralism and Environmental Ethics
January 23: Allen T. Rutberg, Ph.D., Director, Center for Animals and Public Policy, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Tufts University
Seminar: Strengthening the Ethical Foundation of Wildlife Contraception
Public lecture: Wildlife Contraception: Successes and challenges
February 27
Seminar: What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?
April 3: Robert Bass, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Seminar: What Can One Person Do? Causal Impotence and Dietary Choices
Public Lecture: Moral Risk and Moral Lore
2012 - 2013
Co-conveners:
Susan Kopp, DVM, Professor, Veterinary Technology Program, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Joel Marks, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of New Haven
Schedule
September 27: Clare Palmer, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University
Seminar topic: Wild Animals, Ethics and Climate Change
Talk topic: Ethics, Conservation, and Animal Welfare: Wildlife and Outdoor Cats
October 18: Anne Vallely, Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa
Seminar topic: Being Sentiently with Others: Humans and Nonhumans in Jainism
Talk topic: The Ambivalent Animal: Compassion, Passion, & the Good Death in Jainism
November 29: Alexandra Horowitz, Principal Investigator, Dog Cognition Lab, and Term Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University
Seminar topic: Attributions to Animals
Talk topic: (Mis)understanding Dogs
January 24: Ralph R. Acampora, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hofstra University
Seminar topic: Extinction by Exhibition: Zoos as Pornography
Talk topic: Creating Conviviality with Other Creatures: Artful and Ethical Designs for Animal Encounter
February 28: Lila Miller, DVM,Vice President for Veterinary Outreach, ASPCA
Seminar topic: A Veterinarian’s Perspective on Animal Cruelty and Abuse: Legal and ethical issues
Talk topic: The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
April 4: John Rossi, V.M.D., M.Bioethics, Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Program for the Study of Public Health Ethics and History Drexel University School of Public Health
Seminar topic: Ethical Issues in the Pedigree Breeding of Companion Animals
Talk topic: How Should We Eat? Food choices and our obligations to the public’s health
2011 - 2012
Co-conveners:
Susan Kopp, DVM, Professor, Veterinary Technology Program, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Joel Marks, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of New Haven
Schedule
September 22: Victoria Braithwaite, Professor of Fisheries and Biology and Director of the Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences
Do Fish Feel Pain? A Current Look at Welfare Implications
October 27: Hal Herzog, Professor of Psychology, Western Carolina University
Moral Inconsistency, Psychology, and Animal Ethics
December 1: Charles C. Camosy, Assistant Professor of Theology, Fordham University
Ethics and Other Animals: Common Ground Amidst Difference
January 26: Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at New York University
Broadening Bioethics
February 23: Maxim Fetissenko, PhD, Boston-based scholar and consultant in communication
Beyond Morality: A New Rhetoric for the Animal Rights Movement
March 22: Dr Gail Golab, Director of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Animal Welfare Division
Ethical Decisions Regarding Euthanasia in Veterinary Medicine
2010 - 2011
Co-conveners:
Susan Kopp, DVM, Professor, Veterinary Technology Program, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Joel Marks, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of New Haven
Schedule
September 23: Marc Bekoff, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado
Animals as Moral Agents
October 28: Bryan Bannon, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University
Of Seeing and Speaking: Gestural Communication as a Basis For Caring For Animals
December 2: G. Kenneth Bernhard, principal attorney, Cohen and Wolf, P.C.
Efforts to Counteract Elephant Poaching in Kenya
February 10: Scott L. Plous, Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University
Do Americans See Their Diet and Lifestyle Choices as Ethical?
February 24: Parker Shipton, Professor of Anthropology and Research Fellow in African Studies, Boston University; Co-editor, On the Human (online), National Humanities Center
Animal Sacrifice and Classification
March 24: Alice Crary, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
Speciesism and its Discontents
April 21: Linda Brent, President and Director, Chimp Haven, Keithville, LA
Chimpanzee Sanctuaries: Reflections of Changing Ethics or Financial Considerations?
2009 - 2010
Co-conveners:
Susan Kopp, DVM, Professor, Veterinary Technology Program, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Joel Marks, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of New Haven
Schedule
September 24: Philip Wilson, World Society for the Protection of Animals
Securing the Protection of Animals in the Developing World: Special problems
October 22: Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, Director of Research Policy, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Belmont 2: Finding universal principles for the protection of human and animal research subjects
December 3: Gary Steiner, John Howard Harris Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Bucknell University
The Ideal of a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism
January 21: Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Services, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Legal and Ethical Issues in Human-Animal Medicine
February 25: Larry Carbone, DVM, PhD, DACLAM, Senior Veterinarian, Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of California, San Francisco
Laboratory Animal Welfare:Who speaks for animals when they can’t speak for themselves?
March 25: Janet Scarlett, DVM, PhD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
The Enigma of Our Relationship to Companion Animals
Public Lecture: The Interface of Epidemiology, Pet Population Issues, and Policy
April 22: Alan M. Beck, ScD, Dorothy N. McAllister Professor of Animal Ecology and Director, Center for the Human-Animal Bond, Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine
Ethical Issues in the Use of Service Animals for Human Therapy
2008 - 2009
Convener: Joel Marks, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of New Haven
Advisory Group:
Carol Pollard, Associate Director, Bioethics Center
David H. Smith, Director, Bioethics Center
Wendell Wallach, Chair, Technology & Ethics Study Group
Schedule
September 25: Sue A. Leary, President, American Anti-Vivisection Society and Alternatives Research & Development Foundation
What Are the Prospects for Medical Research and Education Without the Use of Animals?
October 23: Kari Weil, Professor of Letters, Wesleyan University
Killing Animals: Grandin and Coetzee on Nonverbal Ethics
December 4: Gary L. Francione, Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy, Rutgers School of Law
Animals Rights vs. Animal Welfare
January 22: Ramona Ilea, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pacific University
Factory Farming, Animal Protection, and Environmental Issues
February 26: Wayne Pacelle, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Humane Society of the United States
Discussion with the leader of the U.S.’s largest animal protection organization
March 26: Colin Allen, Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and member, Cognitive Science Program and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University
Ethics and the Science of Animal Minds, with particular attention to Pain
April 23: Kathleen Kete, Associate Professor of History, Trinity College
Animal Protection in Historical Context, including during the Nazi regime
Spring 2008
Convener:
Joel Marks, Professor, Philosophy, University of New Haven
Advisory Group:
Carol Pollard, Associate Director, Bioethics Center
David H. Smith, Director, Bioethics Center
Wendell Wallach, Chairperson, Technology and Ethics Study Group
Schedule
January 24: Lori Gruen, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Director, Ethics in Society Project, Wesleyan University
Animal Ethics: Theory and Practice
February 28: Paul Waldau, Director, Center for Animals and Public Policy, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
Animal Ethics as an Academic Field
March 27: Robert C. Jones, Post-Doctoral researcher, Ethics in Society Project, Wesleyan University
Is the Moral Status of Animals Based Only on Their Relations to Humans?
April 24: Clinton R. Sanders, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut
Social Interaction between Human and Nonhuman Persons