Workshops
In this section, you can find all the workshops that our Centre is organising or has organised in the past. Workshops are shorter events than conferences and are usually focused on a specific topic. Our Workshops are made possible through generous support by the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy.
Past workshops
“Rabbits and Robots: Debating the Rights of Animals and Artificial Intelligences”
On 2 June 2021, the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law brought into conversation leading international experts on the rights of non-human animals and the rights of robots and artificial intelligences.
The aim of this Workshop, for which more than 200 attendees registered, was to facilitate critical discussion of the questions that arise in these fast-growing fields, to build bridges between scholars, and to allow an international audience to engage in a discussion with these scholars.
The full video recording of the event is available here. Below is the Programme of the event, with time-stamps of each presentation.
Introduction (0:03)
Raffael Fasel (Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; London School of Economics)
Keynote address: Is it acceptable to kick a robot dog? A relational approach to moral standing (13:45)
Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Vienna)
Rights for nonhumans in the anthropocene: towards a unified framework (1:02:46)
Joshua Gellers (University of North Florida)
Five theses on similarities and dissimilarities of animal and AI rights (1:31:30)
Tomasz Pietrzykowski (University of Silesia)
Panel discussion and Q&A (2:01:10)
Please find below the event poster, which you can also download here.
“Ravens and Rivers: Debating the Rights of Animals and Nature”
On 26 September 2020, the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law hosted the online workshop “Ravens and Rivers: Debating the Rights of Animals and Nature”, with more than 130 registered attendees. This was the first in a series of online workshops that our Centre is organising in the academic year 2020/21.
The workshop brought into conversation scholars and practitioners working on issues relating to the rights of non-human animals and the rights of nature in order to facilitate critical discussion of the different issues that arise in these areas and to build bridges to enhance the rights of animals and nature.
The full video recording of the event is available here. Below is the Programme of the event, with time-stamps of each presentation.
Introduction (1:58 mins)
Raffael Fasel (Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; London School of Economics)
The Indivisibility of Ravens and Rivers: Exploring Relationships and Rights (keynote address) (12:52 mins)
Cormac Cullinan (Cullinan & Associates; Wild Law Institute)
Rights of Nature in the USA and the Western Tradition (52:16 mins)
Cameron La Follette (Independent researcher and writer)
Constitutionalism and Animal Rights (1:28:30 mins)
Benito Alaez Corral and Nuria Menéndez De Llano (University of Oviedo)
Who Represents the Rights of Nature? (1:56:24 mins)
Mihnea Tanasescu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Q&A and panel discussion (not recorded)
You can also download the workshop programme as a PDF file.