A once-a-month meeting convened to discuss the work-in-progress or recently published book of a scholar working on animals in the law and/or another field of humanities with a focus on nonhuman animals.
Contact Professor Angele Fernandez (angela.fernandez@utoronto.ca) to obtain a copy of the reading to review in advance of the talk.
The Animals in the Law & Humanities Working Group was started in 2013. Past speakers and topics since the group was rebooted in 2022 have included:
- Eva Bernet Kempers, Animal & Law Chair, University of Antwerp, “From ‘thing’ to ‘family member’: the changing status of companion animals in continental law” (Jan 2023)
- Irus Braverman, Professor, University of Buffalo, School of Law, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (Nov 2022)
- Jessica Eisen, Professor, University of Alberta, Faculty of Law, “Feminist Animal Law: Analogy, Intersection, Method” (Feb 2023)
- Ryann Fineberg, Student, Lawrence Park Collegiate, “Social Media as a Tool to Mobilize Youth in Advocating for Animals” (Jan 2024)
- Robyn Hederman, Independent Scholar & Co-Chair of the Animal Committee, New York City Bar Association, “Women, Madness, Physicians, and the Anti-Vivisection Controversy in America” (Nov 2023)
- Andrew Kettler, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Union, History Department, and Charlton W. Yingling, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Louisville, “Cattle, Chattel, & Capital: Agency, Avarice, & the Alimentary Atlantic” (Feb 2024)
- Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Professor, University of California, San Diego, Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies, “The Sanctuary of a Sentence” (March 2024)
- Matthew Liebman, Associate Professor & Chair of the Justice for Animals Program, University of San Francisco, School of Law, “Animal Plaintiffs” (March 2023)
- Justin Marceau, Professor & Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law & Policy, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, “Voluntary Prosecution and the Case of Animal Rescue” (Oct 2023)
- Josh Milburn, Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University, Food Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oct 2024)
- Kat Poje, New York University Faculty Fellow in the Department of Environmental Studies, “‘Save from Suffering’: Eugenics and Animal Euthanasia in the Early Twentieth-Century Humane Movement” (Sept 2024)
- Elizabeth Schoales, Independent Researcher, “Agriculture Public Trust Campaigns and Moral Panic” (Dec 2023)
- Kelly Struthers Montford, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Criminal Justice Department & Darren Chang, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sydney, “Non-Carceral Responses to Interpersonal and Structural Harms Against Animals: Evaluating the Potential for Restorative and Transformative Justice” (Dec 2022)
