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From: Harlan B. Miller <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
A conference "Great Apes at the Threshold: Implications for Law, Ethics,
Conservation, and Science" will be held April 28-May 1, 2001 in Boston, MA.
The goal of this conference is to evaluate the tension created by the
changing ethical and legal status of the great apes, particularly in the
international arena, and the continued demand for their use to serve human
ends. Speakers include Marc Bekoff, Roger Fouts, Jane Goodall, Dale
Jamieson, Peter Singer, and Steven Wise. The conference is cosponsored by
The Center for Animals and Public Policy, Tufts University, and the Kennedy
Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Registration, call for
posters, and scholarship information available from Susan Brogan, phone
(508) 887-4723, and email Susan.Brogan.tufts.edu.
MINDING THE BORDERS:A Conference on Animal Consciousness
and the Human-Animal Distinction, will be held April 27-28, 2001 at DePaul
University, Chicago. Speakers/presenters include Vicki Hearne, Rachel
Rosenthal, Marc Bekoff, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Margot Norris, Bonnie Jo
Campbell, H. Peter Steeves, Alphonso Lingis, Dorion Sagan, Sue
Savage-Rumbaugh, and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
For details contact H. Peter Steeves at [log in to unmask]
The Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals meets in conjunction with the
Divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Papers are
hereby invited for the 2001 Eastern meeting and for all 2002 meetings:
Pacific in late March or early April, Central in late April or early May,
and Eastern in late December.
Papers are welcome on any topic concerning ethical issues affecting
nonhuman animals. Possible topics include (but certainly are not limited
to):
The ethics and epistemology of animal research.
Vegetarianism in religious traditions.
Companion animals, paternalism, and community.
The importance of animal issues in philosophy.
The justifiability of Animal Liberation Front activities.
Historical studies of conceptions of the moral standing of nonhumans.
The moral significance (if any) of genetic engineering or other
biotechnology.
Animal liberation and environmental ethics.
The propriety of pet-keeping.
Xenotransplantation and related issues.
and so on.
A system of blind refereeing is used. Papers should be eight to fifteen
pages long, double-spaced. Electronic submission is welcomed. Send to
[log in to unmask] If paper copy submission is preferred three copies are
requested with the author's name and other identifying information on a
separate title page. No abstract is required. Send papers to Harlan B.
Miller (address at the of this newsletter). Be sure to indicate the
meeting for which the paper is submitted. Volunteers to comment on papers,
or to chair sessions, should submit their names to the same addresses.
Deadlines (postmark) are as follows:
2001 Eastern meeting March 30, 2001
2002 Pacific meeting September 15, 2001
2002 Central meeting September 15, 2001
2002 Eastern meeting March 30, 2002
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