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Conference Location: House of Democracy and Human Rights – Greifswalder Straße 4, 10405 Berlin

For conference information please contact: kherrma1@jhu.edu

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Conference schedule:

Friday, May 2, 2025

1:30 PM – Welcome

Session 1: Critical Thinking and Empathy (2:00 – 4:00 PM)

• Bruno Ćurko – Fostering Critical Thinking and Bioethical Sensibility Towards Animals in Children
• Benjamin Hunt – Performing Change: The Role of Creative Practices in Cultivating Interspecies Empathy and Action
• Dimitra Kountaki – Fostering Empathy Beyond Anthropocentrism: The Role of Education in Transforming Human-Animal Relations
• Carlo Salzani – Can a Book Make You Vegan?: The Literary Imagination and the Limits of Empathy

☕ Coffee BreakSession

2: Activism, Representation, Participation (4:30 – 6:30 PM)

• Anne van Veen – De-mooo-cracy: Transformative Learning for Interspecies Democracy
• Tim Reysoo – The Missing Piece: Building an Effective Political and Economic Strategy for the Animal Movement
• Marie Leth-Espensen – Forging Alliances While Crafting Alternative Food Futures: A Study of Activism and Civic Engagement Across the Animal, Environmental, and Rural Movements in Denmark
• Melvin Geib Caballero – Ways Towards Effective Animal Representation

🎉 6:30 – 9:30 PM | Social Gathering

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Session 1: Media, Public Sphere, and the Arts (9:00 – 11:00 AM)

• Laura Fernández Aguilera, Tuğçe Atacı – Towards Feminist Animal and Media Studies: A Digital Ethnographic Research of Female Hunters on Instagram
• Arshia Batra – Becoming-inanimate, Becoming-human, Becoming-animal: The Objectification and (de)Familiarization of Captive Animals in Photography
• Stefanie Aehnelt – Can Theatre Change the World? What Impact Can Theatre and Art Events Have on Social Change?
• Maria Martelli – The School of Earth and Water: A Multispecies Speculation About Education

☕ Coffee BreakSession

2: Teaching Tools and Education Methods (11:30 AM – 1:30 PM)

• Monique Janssens – Developing a Global Education Hub for Animal-Free Methods
• Claudia Alonso-Recarte – A Case Study on Animal Advocacy Documentary Films as Educational Tools
• Zipporah Weisberg – Exposing Students to Graphic Images of Violence against Animals: A Helpful or Harmful Pedagogical Strategy?
• Judith Benz-Schwarzburg – Animal Ethics in Picture Books

🍽️ Lunch BreakSession

3: Critical Animal Rights Education I (2:30 – 4:30 PM)

• Iana Fishova – Educating Beyond Speciesism: Thinking-Doing Creative-Relational Inquiry in Critical Animal Pedagogies and Vegan Education
• Josip Guć – Appreciating Non-Human Animals by Becoming a Child
• Patricia Born – “He’s Coming to Say Hello to You!” – Does Teacher Discourse Impact Children’s Relationships with Animals?
• Carolin Eirich – Learning to Be Affected: Principles and Strategies of (In-)Visibility Regarding the Use of Pictures in (Critical) Education on Animal Factories in Germany

☕ Coffee BreakSession

4: Critical Animal Rights Education II (5:00 – 6:00 PM)

• Jonna Kallaste Håkansson – Addressing Animal Production in Schools Through the Perspective of Interspecies Sustainability and Justice
• Sarah Wilson – Promoting Non-Human Animal Advocacy in UK Universities in Times of Crisis: Perspectives on the Role of Law Schools in Creating Narratives of ‘Animal Justice’ as ‘Social Justice’

🍽️ 7:00 PM | Group Dinner

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Session 1: Contesting Education (10.00 – 11:30 AM)

• Tereza Vandrovcová, Zdeněk Joukl – Unpacking Bias Against Meat Alternatives
• Richard Twine – A Child’s Right to Contest Meat Culture – Generational Universalism as a Multiple Injustice
• Kadri Aavik – Vegan Parents Contesting the Anthropocentric Education System: Experiences, Coping Strategies, and Visions of Change

☕ Coffee BreakSession

2: Intersections (12:00 PM – 2:00 PM)

• Cameron Dunnett – Vegan Ecomasculinities & Animal Advocacy: The Role of Education in Transforming (Hu)Man-Animal Relationships
• Özlem Güçlü – Feminist Pedagogy for a Non-Anthropocentric Course, Class, and Communitas
• Nóra Ugron, Maria Martelli – “A Communion of Worlds” – Vegan Anarchist Visions in Speculative Fiction & Queer Ecological Poetry from Romania
• Valerie Tollhopf – Fostering Trans and Animal Solidarity: Enhancing Trans* New Materialism via a Marxist Account of Animal Oppression

🍽️ Lunch BreakSession

3: Sanctuary (3:00 – 4:00 PM)

• Renata Mliczak – The Educational Role of Vegan Farmed Animal Sanctuaries in Nurturing Just Relationships Between Human and Non-Human Animals
• Simone Scampoli – Animal Sanctuaries: The Future We Imagine

📩 Questions?

Contact us at kherrma1@jhu.edu