{"id":544,"date":"2020-11-24T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/cfhas\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:29:24","slug":"eacas-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/cfhas\/eacas-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EACAS 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"> <strong>The 9th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS), Berlin, Germany 2-4 May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;<em>Actioning Change Through Education: Transforming Human-Animal Relations in Times of Crisis\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>**Link to the recordings of talks coming soon**<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eacas.eu\">www.eacas.eu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference schedule:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, May 2, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1:30 PM \u2013 Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session<\/strong> <strong>1: Critical Thinking and Empathy<\/strong>&nbsp;(2:00 \u2013 4:00 PM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bruno \u0106urko<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Fostering Critical Thinking and Bioethical Sensibility Towards Animals in Children<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Benjamin Hunt<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Performing Change: The Role of Creative Practices in Cultivating Interspecies Empathy and Action<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dimitra Kountaki<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Fostering Empathy Beyond Anthropocentrism: The Role of Education in Transforming Human-Animal Relations<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Carlo Salzani<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Can a Book Make You Vegan?: The Literary Imagination and the Limits of Empathy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Coffee BreakSession<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2: Activism, Representation, Participation<\/strong>&nbsp;(4:30 \u2013 6:30 PM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Anne van Veen<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>De-mooo-cracy: Transformative Learning for Interspecies Democracy<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tim Reysoo<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>The Missing Piece: Building an Effective Political and Economic Strategy for the Animal Movement<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marie Leth-Espensen<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Forging Alliances While Crafting Alternative Food Futures: A Study of Activism and Civic Engagement Across the Animal, Environmental, and Rural Movements in Denmark<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Melvin Geib Caballero<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Ways Towards Effective Animal Representation<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>6:30 \u2013 9:30 PM | Social Gathering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, May 3, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Session 1: Media, Public Sphere, and the Arts<\/strong>&nbsp;(9:00 \u2013 11:00 AM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Laura Fern\u00e1ndez Aguilera, Tu\u011f\u00e7e Atac\u0131<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Towards Feminist Animal and Media Studies: A Digital Ethnographic Research of Female Hunters on Instagram<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Arshia Batra<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Becoming-inanimate, Becoming-human, Becoming-animal: The Objectification and (de)Familiarization of Captive Animals in Photography<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stefanie Aehnelt<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Can Theatre Change the World? 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Communitas<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>N\u00f3ra Ugron, Maria Martelli<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cA Communion of Worlds\u201d \u2013 Vegan Anarchist Visions in Speculative Fiction &amp; Queer Ecological Poetry from Romania<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Valerie Tollhopf<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em><em>Fostering Trans&nbsp;and Animal Solidarity: Enhancing Trans<\/em>*&nbsp;New Materialism via a Marxist Account of Animal Oppression<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Lunch BreakSession<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3: Sanctuary<\/strong>&nbsp;(3:00 \u2013 4:00 PM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Renata Mliczak<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>The Educational Role of Vegan Farmed Animal Sanctuaries in Nurturing Just Relationships Between Human and Non-Human Animals<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Simone Scampoli<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Animal Sanctuaries: The Future We 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