Earth Animal Communities - ICAS Africa conference - Бесплатная аудиокнига

Earth Animal Communities: exploring collective liberation was a two day conference hosted by The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Africa.

This conference, the first in Africa, was held at the University of Cape Town from 31 August to 1 September 2013. The aim of this conference was to bring together academics, activists and anyone else wishing to know more about Critical Animal Studies.

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PRESENTATIONS:**

SATURDAY:

VENUE 1:

9h00 Les Mitchell "Welcome"

9h30 Jenni Trethrowan "Can problem animals be effectively managed?"

10h00 Terry-Ann Bexell and others (including a researcher from the Giant Panda Breeding Base in Chengdu China!) "Exploring the interdependence of human and animal health"

10h20 Louise Van Der Merwe of Humane Education

10h40 Birgitta Wahlberg from Abo Akademi University in Finland "Nonhuman Animal Legal Status"

11h30 TEA BREAK

12h00 School presentations

13h00 LUNCH

14h00 Toni V Brockhoven of BWCSA " Vivisection, the past the present and the future"

14h30 Elisa Galgut from UCT "Raising the bar in the justification of animal research"

15h15 Ian Michler from Africa Geographic "The dark side of South Africa's wildlife industry"

15h45 Arthur Van Coller from Fort Hare "Ethical Consumerism as basis for advancing animal welfare"

16h15 Les Mitchell "Horsemeat and bull".

VENUE 2:

9h30 Justin Grieze the University of Sussex "Beyond Animal Blackface:rediscovering the performed animal"

9h50 Daniella Cadiz Bedini from UCT "The language of landscape: Pedro Paramo and Nature's Murmurs"

10h10 Wendy Woodward from UWC "Pedagogies of dicomfort: teaching JM Coetzee's The Lives of Animals at a SA'n university"

10h35 Aadila Agjee from SCAT "The beasts burden: how language and literature affect the treatment of non-humans"

10h55 Warren Bowles from UJ "Legal trade in rhino horn and Regan's rights view".

LUNCH

14h00 Chantelle Gray Van Heerden of Stell "Blending the animal-human experience in literature"

14h30 myself "Twelve Monkeys and lessons from the Kassandra complex for environmental and animal activists"

15h00 Jan-Harm De Villiers "The ideological discrepancy between animal welfarism and animal rights theory".

SUNDAY:

10h00 David Bilchitz from UJ "What was left unsaid: the unconsitutionality of the Performing Animal Protection Act"

10h30 Aragorn Eloff from Bolo'bolo "From animal rights to materialist ethics"

11h00 Adam Cruise from Stell "Raising the moral standing of animals"

11h40 TEA BREAK

12h00 Kai Horsthemke from Wits "The argument from speciesism"

12h30 Closing discussion

**SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS:

**The Institute for Critical Animal Studies

University of Fort Hare

Vegilicious

The SA Vegan Society

UCT Green Campus Initiative

Unisa College of Law

**ABOUT US

**ABOUT ICAS:

The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) founded in 2001, is the first interdisciplinary scholarly center in higher education dedicated to establishing and expanding the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS).

Critical Animal Studies (CAS) is the academic field of study dedicated to the abolition of animal and ecological exploitation, oppression, and domination. CAS is grounded in a broad global emancipatory inclusionary movement for total liberation and freedom.

ICAS MISSION STATEMENT:

ICAS was established to promote critical animal studies initiatives, eliminate the domination and oppression of animals, and to transform higher education into a more inclusive environment for all species.

ICAS BELIEF:

ICAS believes that in order to eliminate the domination and oppression of animals in higher education animal advocacy/rights/liberation/abolitionist scholars must come together under one common field of study, similar to that of other marginalized fields of study (e.g., Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies, Native American Studies), while constructively debating theories, tactics, and strategies for the advancement of animal liberation and freedom.

MORE INFORMATION:

[http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org](http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org)/

[http://icasafrica.wordpress.com](http://icasafrica.wordpress.com)/

[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-Critical-Animal-Studies-Africa/197667980334903](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-Critical-Animal-Studies-Africa/197667980334903)