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Online Workshop organized by Matthias Kramm, Eva Meijer, Lucia C. Neco | October 13 and 14, 9 am - 1 pm, CET, via zoom
Event details of More-Than-Human Deliberation: Moving towards Justice with Animals, Plants and Other Earth Beings
Start date
13 October 2025
End date
14 October 2025
Time
09:00

Humans are not the only beings who have interests they can express, yet our political institutions and practices do not take into account the views of other-than-human beings like animals and plants in decision-making. This omission is problematic from the perspective of democracy and justice. In this workshop we explore why and how Earth others can have a say in questions of common importance, with a particular focus on deliberation. We bring together scholars working on including more-than-human interests and insights in human decision-making, researchers who investigate how other-than-human beings express preferences or interests, and scholars working on multispecies deliberation. Together, we will explore how humans can take these preferences or interests into account in deliberative practices. The workshop also addresses (problems with) the normative structures that guide our views about deliberation, and the relation between more-than-human deliberation and other frameworks for including nonhuman preferences or interests, like rights of nature and multispecies justice.