Conference 2025
The Politics of not Eating Animals
22 & 23 May, 2025, University of Amsterdam
Organizer: Eva Meijer; co-org: Brenda de Groot
Program
21 May
Pre-Conference Event: PPA Colloquium
Danielle Celermajer presents the paper ‘The Command to Responsibility in a Burning World’.Respondent: Eva Meijer
16:00 - 17:30, Faculteitskamer, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143 Amsterdam.
If you want to attend, please register to receive the paper via y.jansen@uva.nlOnline Opening (open to all) 19.00-21:30 pm CET
https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81008595385
19:00 - 20:00 Sunaura Taylor: TBA
20:00 - 21:00 Claire Jean Kim: Fighting for Animals in an Anti-Black World
21:00 - 21:30 Discussion
22 May - Day 1
University Library (Spui, Amsterdam): Doelenzaal
08:45 - 09:15 Registration with Coffee and Tea
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome
09:15 - 10:15 Keynote 1 Danielle Celermajer: To Encounter, to Know, to Love and to Be Just
10.15 - 12:15 Session 1: Multispecies Justice and Eating Animals
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
12:45 - 13:15 Performance Lisia Leurdijk: If you could be any animal, who would you be?
University Library (Spui, Amsterdam): Belle van Zuylenzaal
13:15 - 14:15 Keynote 2 Stacy Banwell: An Intersectional Analysis of the Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Should we Introduce the Crime of Animal Ecocide?
14.15 - 15.45 Session 2: Animals in/and Industrial Farming I
15.45 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Session 2 continues: Animals in/and Industrial Farming II
17:00 - 18:00 Panel on Researching and Advocating for/with Farmed Animals: with Danielle Celermajer, Leonie Cornips, Jin Qian, Tim Reysoo
23 May - Day 2
University Library (Spui, Amsterdam): Belle van Zuylenzaal
08:45 - 9:00 Coffee and Tea
09:00 - 11:00 Session 3: Meat
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote Anat Pick: On Eating Animals in Andrea Arnold’s Cow (2021)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch with Drawing Workshop by G.C. Heemskerk
13:00 - 15.00 Session 4: Eating Animals in Literature, Art and Philosophy
15.00 - 15.10 Coffee/Tea Break
15.10 - 15.25 Musical intermezzo by Haru Lev
15.30 -16.30 Film Program:
- Lucas Rinzema & Jim van der Steege: When the ground falls silent, who do we look to
- Haru Lev: Planet A (excerpt)
- just wondering…: Title TBA
- Issy Clarke: Badger/Elder Art
16.30-18.00 Encountering Earth Beings as the Starting Point for Change. Speed Presentations by Alli S. Majid Abad, Irina Frasin, Matthias Kramm and Anna Lina Litz, Followed by Discussion
Nota bene
If you are ill, please do a covid-test. If you do not have covid but sneeze or cough, you are welcome, but please wear a proper mouth mask (FFP2 or FFP3).
Sessions
Session 1 Multispecies Justice and Eating Animals
Tobias Blase Non-Ideal Theories Wanted! Towards a Neo-Youngian Model of Multispecies Justice
Stuart Evans Dismantling Exploitation: Toward Multispecies Justice and the Future of Multispecies Work
Brenda de Groot Psychology for Multispecies Justice: A study on how cognitive and emotional factors shape our moral concern for animals.
Ted Hunter Multispecies Justice: Hope for the Future
Session 2 Animals in Industrial Farming
I
Paulina Siemieniec The politics of animal consumption through the lens of sexual and reproductive rights and health for animals
Chiara Stefanoni From Dis/Enhancement to Disability: Politicizing Genome Editing in “Farmed” Animals
Anna Aubert Phenomenological and ecofeminist perspectives for reconsidering farmed animals’ interests
II
Isabella Clarke The UK Badger Cull
Kerstin Weich From veterinary to multispecies medicine
Session 3 Meat
Thea Wiesli Factors Affecting Meat Consumption of Social Groups and Classes
Ariane Evertz Meat Fetishism: How Carnism reinforces Time-Space Appropriation in Capitalist Meat Production
Sune Borkfelt Teaching Meat: Making Slaughtered Animals Present through Critical Animal Pedagogies
Carolin Eirich Learning to be affected. Principles and strategies of (in-)visibility regarding the use of images in (critical) education on animal factories in Germany through the lens of media pedagogy, cultural and media theory
Session 4 Eating Animals in Literature, Art and Philosophy
Karmel Knipprath ‘Living and dying we feed the fire’: Queer Vegan Futures and the Gothic in Clive Barker’s Sacrament (1996)
Betlem Pallardo “I Am a Pig, and I Am Not': The Animal Standpoint in Spanish Literature and Documentary Film
Mariana Pereira Eating the Animal Within: thinking carnivore sacrifice and human fraternalism with Derrida
Poulomi Choudhury The Grotesque Mirror: Cannibalism as Carnist Critique in Tender is the Flesh
Speed Presentations: Encountering Earth Beings
Alli S. Majid Abad Dismantling power hierarchies in small-scale institutions for interspecies deliberation
Anna Lina Litz From Chicken Performance to Performance for Chickens: Challenging the dynamics of nonhuman labour through artistic practice with Anne Hofstra’s KIP
Matthias Kramm Multispecies Justice and Interspecies Deliberation
Irina Frasin Symbiotic healing. More-than-one health and One Medicine
