Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics First Annual Oxford Summer School on Animal Ethics 2014

Religion and Animal Protection

St Stephen’s House, Oxford The Ferrater Mora Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics The Fellows are working in all fields of About the Oxford Centre academic scholarship to advance perspectives for Animal Ethics on animal ethics.

We want to put ethical concern The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (www. for animals on the intellectual oxfordanimalethics.com) is the premier centre for animal ethics worldwide. Our Centre agenda, and contribute to an aims to break new ground for the animals by enlightened public debate about pioneering ethical perspectives on animals animals through academic research, teaching, and publication. We want to put ethical concern The Centre publishes the Journal of Animal for animals on the intellectual agenda, and Ethics in partnership with the University of contribute to an enlightened public debate Illinois Press, and has established a book series about animals. We believe that the rational on animal ethics with Palgrave Macmillan case for animals is frequently understated and twelve of the commissioned books have within academia and misrepresented in already appeared. the media.

The heart of the work of the Centre is our international Fellowship of over 80 academics drawn from the humanities and the sciences.

School will consider whether religious people A warm welcome to our and religious institutions benefit animals. Are first Annual Oxford Animal they more or less likely to be respectful to animals – either those kept as companions or Ethics Summer School those used for other human purposes?

This year, we are examining the role played by We are delighted to have speakers from every religion in animal protection. major religious tradition as well as sociologists, legal scholars, historians, and psychologists. This is the first international gathering of We hope the Summer School will inspire a academics on religion and animal protection dialogue on religion and animal protection. from multi-faith and multi-disciplinary perspectives. I look forward to personally welcoming you to this ground-breaking event. We will examine the ethical adequacy of religious attitudes to animals. Inspired by Baptist Preacher Charles Spurgeon’s claim that Clair Linzey a person cannot be a true Christian if his dog Director of the Annual Oxford Summer School or cat is not the better off for it, the Summer Woolcoombe, a Fellow of Balliol, and John About St Stephen’s Wordsworth, Chaplain of Brasenose College. House, Oxford Among the founding group was Henry Scott Holland, then senior fellow at Christ St Stephen’s House is an Anglican theological Church, and one of the leading figures in the college and a Permanent Private Hall of the development of the Christian social teaching. The institute consists of an University of Oxford. It offers formation, education and training for a variety of St Stephen’s House was founded in international fellowship of qualifications and ministries 1876 by members of the Tractarian academics drawn from both (https://www.ssho.ox.ac.uk/). movement and has stood, ever the humanities and the sciences St Stephen’s House was founded in 1876 by since, in the catholic tradition of the members of the Tractarian movement and has Church of England dedicated to pioneering ethical stood, ever since, in the catholic tradition of the Church of England. For the House’s first years, it was situated perspectives near the centre of Oxford, where the New The House’s principal founder was Edward Bodleian Library now stands. From 1919, the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics King, then Regius Professor of Pastoral House had a site in Norham Gardens, near to Theology in the University of Oxford, and the University Parks. In 1980 it moved to the later Bishop of Lincoln. Associated with King current site, formerly the mother-house of the were William Bright, Regius Professor of Society of St John the Evangelist (also known Ecclesiastical History, Edward Talbot, Warden as the Cowley Fathers), founded by Richard of Keble College and subsequently Bishop Meux Benson. of Winchester, Edwin Palmer, Professor of Latin and Archdeacon of Oxford, Edward Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School The Programme Religion and Animal Protection 21-23 July 2014 ------

Monday 21st July

7.30-8.30am: (Breakfast in the Dining Hall for those staying on Sunday 20th) 8.30-9.25am: Registration in the Summer School Office

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Chair: The Revd Jennifer Brown Chair: Dr Deborah Jones

9.25 Welcome by Professor Andrew Linzey 9.25 Welcome by Clair Linzey

9.30 -10.15 The Most Revd Metropolitan 9.30 -10.15 Dr Khayke Beruriah Wiegand Kallistos Ware of Diokleia and Woolf Corob Lector in Yiddish formerly Reader in Eastern Orthodox Studies, University of Oxford Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Compassion for animals in the Orthodox Church “Myriads of cows and fowls ... ready to take revenge” – Isaac Bashevis Singer’s vegetarianism and his treatment of animals and animal slaughter in his works

10.15 - 11.00 Professor Deborah Cao Professor, School of Languages 10.15 - 11.00 Dr Simon Pulleyn and Linguistics/ Law School Socio-Legal Research Centre Lecturer, University of Law, London

Griffith University, Australia Animals in Christian Canon Law Animals in Confucian and Daoist thought

11.00-11.30am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Dr Ryan McLaughlin Chair: Justin Begley

11.30-12.15 Professor Michael Barnes SJ 11.30-12.15 Dr Philip Sampson Professor of Interreligious Relations Independent Scholar, formerly Research Fellow Heythrop College, University of London University of Southampton

Invoking another world: Lord of creation or animal among animals? An interreligious reflection on Hindu mythology Dominion, Darwin and duty

12.15-1.00 The Rt Revd John Pritchard 12.15-1.00 Ryan Brand Bishop of Oxford Doctoral Candidate, Vanderbilt University leads a discussion on Encountering animals: Buber’s prelude to the animal question Anglicanism and animals 1.00-2.00pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall Tuesday 22nd July 7.30-8.30am: (Breakfast in the Dining Hall for residential delegates)

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Chair: Professor Deborah Cao Chair: Joseph Wolyniak Couratin Room Hope Room

2.00-2.45 Dr Kenneth Valpey 2.00-2.45 Dr Abbey Smith Chair: Dr Kay Peggs Chair: Dr Corinne Painter Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies University of Winchester University of Oxford Paul Tillich’s method of correlation and the 9.00-9.45 The Venerable Alex Bruce 9.00-9.45 Dr Margarita Carretero-González Animating Samadhi: Rethinking animal-human possibility of a Tillichian animal ethic Associate Professor Senior Lecturer relationships through yoga College of Law Faculty of Arts Australian National University University of Granada, Spain

2.45-3.30 Dr Jagbir Jhutti-Johal 2.45-3.30 Dr Corinne Painter Paradox and practice: The significance of morally relevant From excommunication to silence: Catholic attitudes to bullfighting Lecturer in Sikh Studies Faculty Member distinctions in Buddhist characterisations of animals Department of Theology and Religion Department of Humanities University of Birmingham Washtenaw Community College

If the Sikh Dharam is about tolerance and respect Christianity and non-human animal justice: Why don’t what value is placed on animals? most Christians practice what they preach? 9.45-10.30 Professor Chien-hui Li 9.45-10.30 Dr Ryan McLaughlin Assistant Professor Adjunct Faculty Department of History Theology Department 3.30-4.00pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Duquesne University

The Christian tradition and the animal defence Cosmic fallenness, evolution, and nonhuman death Chair: Professor Daniel Dombrowski Chair: Kelsi Nagy movement in nineteenth-century Britain

4.00-4.45 Dr Kay Peggs 4.00-4.45 Justin Begley 10.30-11.00am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room Reader in Sociology Doctoral Candidate, University of Oxford University of Portsmouth Margaret Cavendish’s animalistic observations: Petty Chair: Professor Kurt Remele Chair: The Revd Jennifer Brown Religion, ethics and vegetarianism gods and the hunt for natural knowledge

11.00-11.45 Professor Michael Gilmour 11.00-11.45 Professor Maria Jaoudi 4.45-5.30 Professor Kai Horsthemke 4.45-5.30 Dr Deborah Jones Associate Professor Professor, Department of Humanities & Religious Studies Associate Professor, Department of Education Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics New Testament and English Literature California State University Sacramento University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Providence University College, Canada Has the Roman Catholic Church been a blessing or a curse for animals? Hildegard of Bingen: The many realities of African religions and animal protection Rattlesnakes and religion in revolutionary-era America: consciousness: Intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic William Bartram’s Quaker-inspired animal advocacy

5.30-6.15 Professor Neal Robinson 5.30-6.15 Christine Nellist Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies Doctoral Candidate, University of Winchester Australian National University Ancient voices in modern theology: Orthodox teaching and practice in Ants, birds and other affable creatures in the Qur’an and Sufi tradition animal welfare. Transformative Research: Cyprus a Case Study.

6.30pm: Sherry in the Common Room

7pm: Dinner in the Dining Hall 5.00-5.45 Professor Neil Messer 5.00-5.45 Carl Tobias Frayne Couratin Room Hope Room Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Masters Candidate, University of Chicago Studies, University of Winchester Reverence as a way of life: Re-evaluating our Evolution, animal suffering and ethics: A response to Christopher Southgate relation to the more-than-human world 11.45-12.30 Professor Clifton P. Flynn 11.45-12.30 Akisha Townsend Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology, Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics University of South Carolina Upstate, and Rachel Austin, Adjunct 6.45pm: Summer School Official Photograph in Moberly Garden Instructor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Putting the “creature” into creation: The call for the inclusion of animals in the Christian creation care movement Traversing the gap between religion and animal rights: Framing and networks as a conceptual bridge 7.00pm: Champagne Reception in the Cloisters

7.30pm: Gala Dinner in St John the Evangelist Church

12.30-1.15 The Revd Canon Beaumont Stevenson 12.30-1.15 Dr John Chesworth Introduction of Special Guests of Honour Visiting Tutor Research Officer on Christian-Muslim Relations St Stephen’s House, Oxford University of Birmingham Special Gala Dinner speakers: Professor Joy Carter DL, Vice Chancellor of the University of Winchester Animal companions and bereavement Muslim and Christian perspectives on animal slaughter Sir David Madden, former British diplomat, and Senior Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

1.15-2.15pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Chair: Dr Lidia de Tienda Palop Chair: Rachel Wechsler Wednesday 23rd July

2.15-3.00 Rabbi Professor Tony Bayfield CBE 2.15-3.00 The Revd Feargus O’Connor 7.30-8.30am: (Breakfast for residential delegates) Professor of Jewish Theology and Thought Minister of Golders Green Unitarian Church Leo Baeck College, London Universal kinship: A Unitarian perspective on animals Couratin Room Hope Room Judaism: the human animal and all other animals – dominion or responsibility? Chair: Rachel Austin Chair: Joseph Tuminello

3.00-3.45 Professor Daniel Dombrowski 3.00-3.45 Professor Edward Sellner 9.00-9.45 Dr Margaret Adam 9.00-9.45 Joseph Wolyniak Professor of Philosophy Professor of Theology Honorary Academic Associate Visiting Scholar, Religious Studies Department Seattle University St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota St Stephen’s House, Oxford University of Denver

Process theology: From nonhuman animals to the environment The Celtic Saints and their kinship with animals and birds The difference bodily resurrection makes: Caring For dissections and trials: The religious roots of animal for animals whilst hoping for heaven experimentation in Bacon’s ‘New Science’

3.45-4.15pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room 9.45-10.30 The Revd Jennifer Brown 9.45-10.30 Sidney Blankenship Tutor, Cuddesdon School of Theology and Ministry Member of the Cherokee Tribe and Independent Scholar Chair: Dr Simon Pulleyn Chair: Maximilian Elder Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford Restoring species to the circle of life in Native America Can Christian worship influence attitudes and behaviour towards animals? 4.15-5.00 Professor Lisa Isherwood 4.15-5.00 Dr Sudhir Chopra Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies Fellow, Cambridge Central Asia Forum University of Winchester Animals in Buddha’s life and teachings Radical incarnation and animal protection 10.30-11.00am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room Couratin Room Hope Room

Couratin Room Hope Room Chair: Professor Clifton Flynn Chair: Akisha Townsend

Chair: Professor Michael Gilmour Chair: Robert Lazo 4.15-5.00 Dr Samantha Hurn 4.15-5.00 Robert Lazo Lecturer in Anthropology Visiting Student University of Exeter Mansfield College, Oxford 11.00-11.45 Professor Kurt Remele 11.00-11.45 Kelsi Nagy Associate Professor of Ethics and Catholic Social Thought Doctoral Candidate, University of Oxford Exposing the harm in euthanasia: Ahimsa and an alternative Lucretius on religion and animal protection University of Graz, Austria view on animal welfare as expressed in the beliefs and The invisible cow: The welfare of sacred and practices of the Skanda Vale ashram, west Wales A strange kind of kindness: On Catholicism’s mundane cattle in contemporary India moral ambiguity towards animals 5.00-5.45 Dr Alan Bates 5.00-5.45 Joseph Tuminello Honorary Senior Lecturer Doctoral Candidate Anatomical Pathology University of North Texas 11.45-12.30 Dr Tim Winter 11.45-12.30 Maximilian Elder University College, London Lecturer in Islamic Studies Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Reconciling orthodox and diaspora Jainism via agricultural ethics University of Cambridge A spark divine? Animal souls and animal Theism and the problem of animal suffering welfare in nineteenth-century Britain ‘Nations like yourselves’: the theological reception of koranic teaching on animals

5.45-6.30 Professor William Greenway 5.45-6.30 Rachel Wechsler 12.30-1.15 Professor Richard Gombrich 12.30-1.15 The Revd Lucy Gardner Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology U.S. Lawyer and Doctoral Candidate Boden Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus Tutor in Christian Doctrine Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary University of Oxford University of Oxford St Stephen’s House, Oxford Peter Singer, Emmanuel Levinas, Christian agape, When religious freedom and animal ethics intersect Animals in Buddhist ethics Animals and Christian doctrine - exploring some and the spiritual heart of animal liberation of the questions animals might pose

6.30 Closing Remarks by Professor Andrew Linzey 6.30 Closing Remarks by Clair Linzey 1.15-2.15pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Chair: Professor Kai Horsthemke Chair: Ryan Brand 6.35pm: Summer School Ends

2.15-3.00 Dr Sebastian Brock 2.15-3.00 Dr Deborah Rooke Formerly Reader in Syriac Studies Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford Regent’s Park College, Oxford

Animals and humans: Some perspectives from ‘”You shall not eat any abominable thing”: An examination of an Eastern Christian tradition the Old Testament food laws with animal ethics in mind

3.00-3.45 Natalie Edgoose 3.00-3.45 Dr Samantha Calvert Head of Humanities and teacher of Religious Researcher in residence Education, Plume School, Essex The Vegan Society

Teaching animals at GSCE and A Level Eden’s diet: Christianity and vegetarianism

3.45-4.15pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room Our concern is to establish We are the first in the world an unashamedly elite school dedicated to pioneering of academics able to make an ethical perspectives on animals effective ethical case for animals through academic research, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics teaching, and publication Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Special Guests at the Gala Dinner

Honoured Guests Distinguished Guests

• Sidney Blankenship • Professor Joy Carter DL, • Vanessa Clarke Vice Chancellor of the University of Winchester • Jo Kennedy and Dr Mark Hill • Christine Nellist • Sir David Madden and Lady Anthea Madden • Anne Rees • Frances Robinson • Deputy Lord Mayor Craig Simmons and Councillor Elise Benjamin

• The Most Revd Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia

• Councillor David Williams and Allison Williams Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

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