Biodiversity Conservation and Animal Rights: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives
Speakers with wide ranging interests
Date: 21 March 2012Time: 10:00 AM
Finishes: 22 March 2012Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Brunei GalleryRoom: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Symposium
This symposium addresses the lack of public reflection on the value and the limitations of received religious paradigms and intellectual habits across cultures concerning the welfare of animals and plants by opening up a new dialogue between thinkers and activists from different religious and philosophical backgrounds on the global problem of biodiversity conservation and animal welfare.
Full details of the symposium at
http://www.soas.ac.uk/biodiversity/
Following speakers have already been enlisted to speak at the symposium on the subjects shown:
1. Professor Emeritus Dr Marc Bekoff [email protected]
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Who Lives, Who Dies, & Why: Ignoring and Redecorating Nature and Specious Speciesism
2. Emeritus Dr Stephen R.L.Clark [email protected]
Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Theology, University of Bristol
Imaging the Divine: How is Humanity the Reason for Creation, and what is Humanity?
3. Dr Peter Flügel [email protected]
Chair, Centre of Jaina Studies, Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS
Rethinking Animism: the Jaina doctrine of non-violence from the perspective of comparative ethics
4.Professor Dr Andrew Linzey [email protected]
Director, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
Can Christianity become good news for animals?
5. Professor Emeritus Dr Tom Regan [email protected]
Department of Philosophy & Religion, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Animal Rights & Environmental Ethics
6. Dr Emma Tomalin [email protected]
Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds
Religious discourses about the environment: resources for sustainable development or a modern-day myth?
7. Professor Dr Paul Waldau [email protected]
Chair, Anthrozoology, Canisius College & Barker Lecturer in Animal Law, Harvard Law School
Animal Studies iS the Key of Animal Rights
8. Dr Sarra Tlili [email protected]
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Gainesville, University of Florida
If it got worse, it can get better: Muslims’ attitudes toward animals between the past and the present
9. Dr Michael Tobias [email protected]
Dancing Star Foundation
Mahavira, Don Quixote and the History of Ecological Ethics and Idealism
10. Professor Dr Michael Zimmermann [email protected]
Professor for Indian Buddhism, Head Asien-Afrika Institut, Hamburg University
Anthropocentrism in the guise of an all-inclusive ethics? Buddhist attitudes to the natural world