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“Thinking About Animals” at Brock University

Saturday, April 2, 2011

The “Thinking About Animals” conference, held at Brock University in Saint Catharines, ended yesterday. It was very well-attended, ranging from teenagers to senior citizens, although the skin-tone was overwhelmingly white. (This issue came up in the last panel I attended when Jason Nord tried to argue that all social justice struggles are animal rights struggles. [...]

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OSPCA and Euthanasia

Monday, March 28, 2011

I’ve been reviewing my files from the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) take-over of the Toronto Humane Society (THS) in preparation for a talk on Thursday. Paragraph 6 of Appendix “D” Grounds for Belief, which constitutes OSPCA investigator Kevin Strooband’s (and also the Executive Director of the Lincoln County Humane [...]

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Wolves

Thursday, February 24, 2011

It’s reading week and I have no duties to attend to on campus, so we’ve been at the cottage for the past few days. Upon getting home from picking up groceries tonight, we heard wolves calling. Low quality iPhone recording, but neat all the same. Wolves at Big Rideau Lake (February 24, 2011)

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Bioethics and Biopolitics

Saturday, February 19, 2011

I’m putting together the final sections on my dissertation. The main chapters dealt with seventeenth century theorists on the distinction between the human and animal and how this relates to their general theoretical apparatus. The final chapter, on the advice on my supervisor, is to make those chapters relevant to contemporary debates. The advice seems [...]

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New Book Series on Animal Ethics

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

From Palgrave Macmillan: The publisher Palgrave Macmillan in partnership with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics is delighted to announce the publication of the first two books in its pioneering new book series on animal ethics. The Palgrave Macmillan book series is jointly edited by the internationally known theologian the Reverend Professor Andrew Linzey, Director [...]

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Remembering Igge (February 1, 2010)

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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Remembering Calvin (January 25, 2009)

Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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Ottawa Animal Defence League versus Winterlude and the Ottawa Humane Society

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Ottawa Animal Defence League (I was unable to find a website for the group: their Twitter seems dead and their Facebook has zero content) has been rather successful lately in getting itself into the newspapers. Their protest against serving foie gras at some Winterlude event is a case in point: it garnered national coverage [...]

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Abstracts for “Thinking With Animals” Conference

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Some abstracts for the “Thinking With Animals” conference at Brock University on March 31 and April 1. The first abstract is for a pre-constituted panel with Eric and James. The second is from a project I’ve been passively working on regarding the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals investigation/raid/take-over of the Toronto [...]

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Remembering Mickey (December 9, 2006)

Thursday, December 9, 2010
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