Programme: Biodiversity Conservation and Animal Rights: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives
14th Jaina Studies Symposium: Biodiversity Conservation and Animal Rights: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 9.30 | Registration |
| 10.00 | 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 |
| 10.30 | Marc Bekoff (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder) Who lives, who dies, and why: ignoring and redecorating nature and specious speciesism |
| 11.00 | Paul Waldau (Chair, Anthrozoology, Canisius College & Barker Lecturer in Animal Law, Harvard Law School) Animal studies is the key of animal rights |
| 11.30 | Break |
| 12.00 | Lu Feng (Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Tsinghua University, Beijing) Reflections on Confucian perspectives on the global environmental crisis |
| 12.30 | 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? |
| 13.00 | Break |
| 14.00 | 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 |
| 14.30 | Andrew Linzey (Director, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics) Can Christianity become good news for animals? |
| 15.00 | Stephen R. L. Clark (Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool) Imaging the divine: how is humanity the reason for creation, and what is humanity? |
| 15.30 | Break |
| 16.00 | 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 |
| 16.30 | 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 |
| 17.00 | Break |
| 17.15 | * Round Table Discussion |
| 18.15 | Final Remarks |