The Third Annual Oxford Summer School The Ethics of , 24-27 July, 2016

Sunday 24th July

4.00-5.00pm: Registration in the Summer School Office

5.00pm: Reception in the Common Room

Welcome by Professor , Muriel Arnal, and

Refreshments from Jodi Bee Bakes and Suma

9.00pm: The Matthew Eyton Trust presents

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

Showing in the Couratin Room

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Monday 25th July

7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall

8.30-9.00am: Registration in the Summer School Office

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Muriel Arnal Chair: Professor Michael Gilmour

9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Dr Stephen Walsh Andrew Fisher Nutrition Adviser and Chair Masters Candidate , UK University of Cape Town

Are foods derived from animals necessary for health? Against killing "happy" animals

9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Samual Garner Dr Linda Johnson Associate Fellow Visiting Professor in Art History Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics University of Michigan - Flint

Plant-based diets and scientific value judgements “Capturing” the hunted hare: An artist’s ethical dilemma in eating “wild” game

10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Professor Daniel A Dombrowski Chair: Robyn Hederman

10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Professor Yoko Kito Jeanette Thelander Associate Professor in Ethics and Theology Masters Candidate National Institute of Technology Nagano College University of Uppsala

Animal ethics in Japan: Is there an ethic for animals Cannibals and vegans: Distances and borders in the not useful to humans? world of meat

11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 Dr Margarita Carretero-González Constantin Imbs Senior Lecturer in English Literature President University of Granada, Spain French Vegan Society

The Shelleys’ and the ethical choices of A history of compassionate diets a “monster”

12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Monique Janssens Dr Valéry Giroux Doctoral candidate Coordinator Erasmus University Centre for Research Ethics, Québec

Ethical responsibilities of food companies toward under attack: A discussion of four animals challenges

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12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Professor Kurt Remele Chair: Professor Andrew Chignell

1.50-2.30 1.50-2.30 Dr Simon Pulleyn Marc G. Wilcox Independent Scholar Doctoral Candidate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics University of Leeds

Why vegetarianism wasn't on the menu in early Human products, animal products, and the Greece commodification of corpses

2.30-3.10 2.30-3.10 Patrick Meyer-Glitza Dr Eleni Panagiotarakou Doctoral Candidate Lecturer in Political Science and Philosophy Humboldt University of Berlin Concordia University

Vegetarian cattle husbandry: Case studies from Justitium: humanitarian interventions in the Europe and India Anthropocene

3.10-3.50 3.10-3.50 Professor Elizabeth Hirsh Manès Weisskircher Associate Professor of English Doctoral Candidate University of South Florida European University Institute, Italy

Who’s for dinner? Civilization and barbarism in How the animal advocacy movement achieved the EU Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse ban of battery cages

3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Professor Steven McMullen Chair: Professor Carl Saucier-Bouffard

4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Maximilian Elder Vanessa Williams Associate Fellow Doctoral Candidate Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Fordham University

The moral poverty of Rethinking rulership: Self-sacrificial eating practices and Genesis 1

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Dr Kenneth Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Swami) Rebecca Jenkins Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies LLM Candidate University of Oxford Trinity College Dublin and Lewis and Clark Law School

From devouring to respecting: A Vaishnava-Hindu The other ghosts in our machine: Human welfare in therapeutic perspective on human culinary choice abattoirs

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Maureen O’Sullivan Jonas House Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway Doctoral Candidate Chair, of Ireland University of Sheffield

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Vegetarianism in Ireland: History, ethics, and Are insects animals? charitable work

6.30pm: Sherry in the Common Room

7pm: Dinner in the Dining Hall

Welcome by the Principal of St Stephen’s House, the Revd Canon Dr Robin Ward

Tuesday 26th July

7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Professor Kay Peggs Chair: Robert Lazo

9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Professor Andrew Chignell Tal Livne Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Masters Candidate Studies, Cornell University Tel Aviv University, Israel

The uses of religious reasoning in secular food ethics Long term veganism: From explaining why to showing how. How virtual communities can bridge the gap between deciding to become vegan and maintaining a vegan lifestyle

9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Professor Richard Merritt The Revd Jennifer Brown Professor of Art, Luther College Tutor, Cuddesdon School of Theology and Ministry Professor Scott Hurley Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford Assistant Professor of Religion, Luther College

The eating of bodies: The intersections underlying the Vegetarianism as prophetic witness: A Christian consumption of African American and nonhuman perspective animal bodies

10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: The Venerable Professor Alex Bruce Chair: Maximilian Elder

10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Professor Kurt Remele Rajesh Reddy Associate Professor of Ethics and Catholic Social Doctoral Candidate Thought, University of Graz, Austria Lewis and Clark Law School, University of Georgia

There is something fishy about eating fish, even on Choosing sides in the pink revolution: A Fridays recommended stance for animal activists in India’s beef-ban war

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11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 Professor Corine Pelluchon Professor Matthew C. Halteman Professor of Political Philosophy and Ethics Associate Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College Université de Franche-Comté Professor Megan Halteman Zwart Assistant Professor of Philosophy Saint ’s College Food ethics and justice towards animals Philosophy as therapy for conflicted carnivores

12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Professor Patricia McEachern Carl Frayne Professor of Masters Candidate Drury University University of Chicago

L’Enfer, c’est nous autres: Institutionalised cruelty as The flesh of feasts and fasts: A study of the monastic standard industry practice in animal agriculture in the diet in theory and practice (1100-1525) United States

12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Chair: Dr A. W. H. Bates Chair: Dr Natalie Evans

1.50-2.30 1.50-2.30 Anat Ben-Yonatan Jim Robinson Doctoral Candidate Doctoral Candidate Bar-Ilan University, Israel Fordham University

Moral negotiations: How Jewish slaughterers perceive Taking on the gaze of Jesus: Perceiving the factory animal suffering farm in a sacramental world

2.30-3.10 2.30-3.10 Simon Brooman Robyn Hederman Senior Lecturer in Associate Fellow Liverpool John Moores University Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Almost one hundred years and counting: Could a and the abattoirs human rights approach have more success in reforming the welfare of animals at slaughter?

3.10-3.50 3.10-3.50 Professor Steven McMullen Joseph Tuminello III Assistant Professor of Economics, Hope College Doctoral Candidate Professor Matthew C. Halteman University of North Texas Associate Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College The ethics and ontology of mayonnaise The economic impact of consumer choices on animal industries

3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Maureen O’Sullivan Chair: Professor Matthew Halteman

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Couratin Room Hope Room

4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Tracy Worcester Dr Director French Language Instructor Farms not Factories University of Oxford

Turn your nose up at pig factories and only buy pork Scientific discourse and animal ethics from high welfare farms

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Dr Asmi Wood Hadas Marcus Senior Lecturer in Law Instructor of Environmental Studies Australian National University Tel Aviv University

Animal rights in an Australian legal context Promoting veganism/vegetarianism through visual art and cinema

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Dr Carlos Naconecy Professor Bob Fischer Director of Animal Ethics Associate Professor of Philosophy Brazilian Vegetarian Society Texas State University

Ten arguments for vegetarianism for the general Animals as honorary persons public

6.55pm: Summer School Official Photograph in Moberly Garden

7.00pm: Champagne Reception in the Cloisters

7.30pm: Gala Dinner

Gala Dinner speakers: Muriel Arnal, President of One Voice, France The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Professor Patricia McEachern, Drury University

Wednesday 27th July

7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Carl Frayne Chair: Kelsi Nagy

9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 The Venerable Professor Alex Bruce Nico Müller Associate Professor, College of Law Masters Candidate Australian National University University of Zurich

The Buddha's last supper and the vexed vegetarian Animal boredom

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9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Professor Daniel Dombrowski Sister Dr Lucille Claire Thibodeau, PM Professor of Philosophy Professor of English Seattle University Rivier University

A Rawlsian approach to nonhuman animal rights “All creation groans”: The lives of factory farm animals in the United States

10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Dr Margarita Carretero-González Chair: Professor Patricia McEachern

10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Professor Kay Peggs Adam Bridgen Professor of Sociology and Animal Studies Doctoral Candidate University of Winchester Linacre College, University of Oxford Professor Barry Smart Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth Animals and slavery: The development of eighteenth- Caring for others: Utopian futures and the ethics of century vegetarian philosophy eating animals

11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 Professor Michael Gilmour Professor Carl Saucier-Bouffard Associate Professor of New Testament and English Professor of Humanities Literature Dawson College, Montreal Providence University College, Manitoba

Myth, meat, and The Magician’s Nephew: The potential implications of bill 54 for animal C. S. Lewis sidesteps Genesis 1:29–30 farming practices in Québec

12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Isa Leshko Dr Philip J. Sampson Artist and Photographer Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

The elderly animals project: Intimate photographic A brief history of dinner-time: The ethics of eating in portraits of geriatric farm animals the “evangelical” literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century

12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Chair: Professor Linda Johnson Chair: Samual Garner

1.50-2.30 1.50-2.30 Dr A. W. H. Bates Marjorie Corbman Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anatomical Pathology Doctoral Candidate University College, London Fordham University

“You can’t trust a fellow who lives on nuts”: Josiah “A lamb as it had been slain”: Meditation upon the Oldfield, vegetarianism, and the Order of the Golden (animal) body in the Abrahamic traditions Age in nineteenth-century Britain

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2.30-3.10 2.30-3.10 Professor Keri Cronin Professor Jeff Johnson Associate Professor of Art History Associate Professor of Philosophy Brock University St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN

“A carnivorous animal and her prey”: Photography Welfare and productivity in animal agriculture and the ethics of eating animals

3.10-3.50 3.10-3.50 Professor William Greenway Hannah Brown Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology Legal and Project Manager Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare

A spirituality of table prayer and its applied potential: Eating animals: A legal perspective Levinas and “saying grace” (not “giving thanks”)

3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Joseph Tuminello III Chair: The Revd Jennifer Brown

4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Professor Andy Lamey Dr Natalie Evans Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy Instructor in Media Studies and Philosophy University of California, San Diego University of Guelph-Humber

The new omnivorism and the doctrine of double Absent animals in the news: Eating our fellow effect creatures

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Dr Joe Wills Robert Lazo Lecturer in Law Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics University of Leicester Utilitarian ethics and the perception of a self through Ethical veganism and nonhuman deaths in time agriculture

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Kelsi Nagy Shahriar Ashrafkhorasani Doctoral Candidate Masters Candidate University of Oxford University of Oxford

What does it mean to be a sacred cow?: India’s dairy Collaborative eschatology and the ethics of eating cattle and the possibility of “animal rights without animals from a Christian perspective liberation”

6.20 Closing Remarks by Professor Andrew Linzey 6.20 Closing Remarks by Clair Linzey

6.30pm: Summer School Ends

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