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Conference 2025, 22 & 23 May, 2025, University of Amsterdam. Organizer: Eva Meijer.
Event details of The Politics of not Eating Animals
Start date
21 May 2025
End date
23 May 2025

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.nl

Online Opening (open to all) 19.00-21:30 pm CET

https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/81008595385

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: A field can be a wall
  • Haru Lev: Planet A (excerpt)
  • just wondering…: We fly, we crawl, we swim
  • 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, and Matthias Kramm, 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).