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CONFERENCE PANELS

All panels will be held in the Centre for Ethics Conference Room (rm. 200), Gerald Larkin Building, 2nd Floor, 15 Devonshire Place

 

Open to the public

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 25TH

12-1:30PM : This Land was Made for You and Me - Bodies and the Natural Environment

 

Chair: Kyumin Ju, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

 

Attila Atander, Western University: “Kant and Hegel on Our Duties to Preserve the Living Body and the Natural Environment as Loci of External Freedom”

Seon Tyrell, York University: “The Silent City - Towards Regenerating Cemeteries in Toronto”

Sydney Faught, University at Albany: “A Second Honeymoon: Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics”

 

Discussant: Angela Fernandez, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toronto

and Coordinator of the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group, "Animals in the Law and Humanities"

2-4:00PM:  Blurred Lines - the Ethical (In)Significance of Species Membership and Cognitive Capacities

 

Chair: Dan Hooley, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

 

Travis Timmerman, Syracuse University: “A New Argument Against Speciesism”

Darren Chang, UBC Animal Welfare Program: “From Creating Space to Building Solidarity with Laboratory Rats”

Benjamin Davies, King’s College London (UK): “Species Exclusivism and Cognitive Disability”

Alexandra Peabody, New School: “Rejecting Hierarchy: Aristotle, Cognitive Disability, and the Exclusionary Force of Compulsory Rationality"

 

Discussant: Stefan Dolgert, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brock University

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 26TH

10:30-12:00PM: Living and Dying Well - on Embodiment, Eudaimonia, Personhood and Perversity

 

Chair: Sean Hillman, Department for the Study of Religion (with collaboration in Bioethics and South Asian Studies), University of Toronto

 

John Brennan, New School: “Recognizing Moral Bodies”

Duane Long Jr., UT Austin: “A Defense of the Ethical Status of Sadomasochism”

Jessica Adkins, Marquette University: “Finding the Good in Dying: Defending Physician Assisted Death of the Akratic Agent”

 

Discussant: Donald Ainslie, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

12:30-2PM: Considering the Other - Ethical Communities of Flesh, Ecology and Suffering

 

Chair: Alison Colpitts, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

 

Jonathan Singer, DePaul University: "The Flesh of My Flesh: Animality, Difference, and 'Radical Community' in Merleau-Ponty's Late Philosophy"

Oli Stephano, SUNY Stony Brook: “Non-Allergic Relations: Thinking Ecology with Levinas and Derrida”

Julian Jonker, UC Berkeley: “A Confucian Account of Animal Suffering”

 

Discussant: Oisín Keohane, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute and Department of Philosophy

2:30-4PM: It’s a Sabotage - Terrorism, Civil Disobedience and Revolution in the Face of Global Injustice

 

Chair: Igor Shoikhedbrod, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

 

Tayler Staneff, Brock University: “Animal Exploitation: Reform or Revolution?”

Jake Earl, Georgetown: “Global Justice and the Prince of Thieves”

Elliot Trapp, New School: “An Arendtian Interpretation of Environmental Liberation”

 

Discussant: Tom Malleson, Assistant Professor of Social Justice and Peace Studies, King's (Western University)

LOCATION OF PANELS: CENTRE FOR ETHICS

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