Fwd: from Somatechnics Administrator <[email protected]> date Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:27 AM subject Event: 03/12/10 - Public Lecture: Animals, People & Earth: Compassion and the Ethics of Inclusion by Prof Marc Bekof Animals, People & Earth: Compassion and the Ethics of Inclusion
A public lecture by Professor Marc Bekoff This public lecture by Professor Marc Bekoff is sponsored by the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion to launch the Macquarie Animals and Society Working Group. 'Animals, People and Earth: Compassion and the Ethics of Inclusion' Date: 3 December 2010 Time: 6.00pm for 6.45pm Place: Building Y3A, Theatre 1, Macquarie University Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is a Fellow of the Animal Behaviour Society and a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2000 he was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behaviour Society for major long-term contributions to the field of animal behaviour. Marc is also an ambassador for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program, in which he works with students of all ages, senior citizens, and prisoners, and also is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Jane Goodall Institute. He and Jane co-founded the organisation Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: Citizens for Responsible Animal Behaviour Studies in 2000. His numerous books include Animal Matters: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect (2007, Shambhala Publications), Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (with Jessica Pierce, 2010, University of Chicago Press), and recently published The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons For Expanding Our Compassion Footprint was published in February 2010 (New World Library). This lecture is a Minding Animal International Pre-conference Event and Professor Bekoff's Australian trip is sponsored by Voiceless: the animal protection institute. RSVP appreciated, please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] -- Professor John Sutton Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Email: [email protected] http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/ Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 ASCS09: Proceedings of 9th conference, Australasian Society for Cognitive Science http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ascs09 Memory Studies (Sage journal): http://mss.sagepub.com/ _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list: http://sydphil.info 945 subscribers now served. To UNSUBSCRIBE, change your MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS, find ANSWERS TO COMMON PROBLEMS, or visit our ONLINE ARCHIVES, please go to the LIST INFORMATION PAGE: http://sydphil.info
