Programme
Professor Emeritus Dr Marc Bekoff (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Who lives, who dies, and why: ignoring and redecorating nature and specious speciesism
Professor Dr Christopher Chapple (Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles)
Animals in early India: stories from the Upaniṣads, the Jātakas, the Pañcatantra, and Jaina Narratives
Professor Emeritus Dr Stephen R.L. Clark (Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Theology, University of Bristol)
Imaging the divine: how is humanity the reason for creation, and what is humanity?
Professor Dr Lu Feng (Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Reflections on Confucian perspectives on the global environmental crisis
Dr Peter Flügel (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
Professor Dr Andrew Linzey (Director, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics)
Can Christianity become good news for animals?
Dr Sarra Tlili (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
Dr Emma Tomalin (Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds)
Religious discourses about the environment: resources for sustainable development or a modern-day myth?
Professor Dr Paul Waldau (Chair, Anthrozoology, Canisius College & Barker Lecturer in Animal Law, Harvard Law School)
Animal studies is the key of animal rights
Professor Dr Michael Zimmermann (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
Programme disclaimer: Changes may be made to the programme between now and 21 March 2012.
