Congressos e Conferências

Challenging Anthropocentrism in Multi-Species Governance, Law and Policy

O seminário internacional Challenging Anthropocentrism in Multi-Species Governance, Law and Policy terá lugar no dia 16 de outubro, às 11h00. Dinesh Wadiwel, da University of Sydney, e Kimberley Graham serão os oradores convidados neste evento online.

Nesta conversa online, Kimberley Graham e Dinesh Wadiwel vão explorar o problema da governança multiespécies e a superação de visões antropocêntricas do direito e das políticas públicas.

O evento é coorganizado pelo Human-animal Studies Hub (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da ULisboa), no âmbito do projeto ERC ABIDE (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da ULisboa), e pela Universidade de Oulu.

Dinesh Wadiwel is Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies at University of Sydney. He is author of Animals and Capital (Edinburgh UP, 2023), The War against Animals (Brill, 2015) and is co-editor, with Matthew Chrulew of Foucault and Animals (Brill 2016). Dinesh is also a disability rights researcher and was part of a team of researchers who have produced two reports for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. Dinesh is currently developing a book manuscript tentatively titled ‘Animals and the State.’

Kimberley Graham is an interdisciplinary scientist interested in less-anthropocentric and collaborative ways to work in partnership with animals and nature. Her legal research is published in Environmental Rights Review, The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, The Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, and a chapter in Rights of Nature in Europe: Encounters and Visions (Routledge 2024). Kimberley was a member of the research teams who prepared reports on behalf of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to the United Nations (UN) International Law Commission, and the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment to the Special Rapporteur on Climate Change: both informed the UN General Assembly, and she was an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report. Kimberley is also an artist: inviting water bodies as living beings into co-creativity, as featured in Cycles of Hope: Voices of Regeneration and Confluence: Weaving Rivers.