International Interdisciplinary Conference

Call for papers

“ANIMAL LIBERATION, 1975-2025 AND BEYOND”

4-5 June 2025, Rennes (France)

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This International Interdisciplinary Conference marks the publication of a new, definitive edition of the classic Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. It aims to gather scholars from around the world to discuss progress made since the original publication (1975), as well as remaining challenges to be faced on related topics. We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

• The ideas developed in Animal Liberation: speciesism, the principle of equal consideration of interests, etc.

• Peter Singer’s intellectual journey: modifications in the latest edition of Animal Liberation, his contribution to effective altruism, the influence of Animal Liberation on contemporary animal studies, etc.

• The animal rights movement: the history and sociology of the movement, progress made so far, the contribution of effective altruism to the contemporary animal liberation movement, prospects for future animal emancipation, etc.

• Scientific insights into animal rights and welfare: research on animal sentience and the evolution of categorizations determining who “counts” and who “does not count” ethically, animal welfare measurement and cross-species comparisons, psychological determinants of speciesist attitudes and other discriminatory attitudes, animal welfare economics, etc.

Our goal is to stimulate interdisciplinary discussions from fields that might have tackled these questions in isolation and with distinct approaches. We thus welcome submissions from all disciplines, including, but not limited to the following: behavioral ecology, biology, cultural studies, economics, law, literature, moral and political philosophy, political science, psychology.

Submission

We invite you to submit an abstract (in French or English) for this conference. This proposal of no more than one page will be downloaded on sciencesconf before January 8, 2025.

The conference will be held in France (Rennes, Brittany) on June 4-5, 2025.

Selected papers may be subjected to subsequent publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Travel and accommodation costs for participants cannot be covered.

Registration fee for presenters: €70.

Keynote Speakers

Bob Fischer, Texas State University

Peter Singer, Princeton University

Matti Wilks, University of Edinburgh

Scientific Committee

Laurent Bègue-Shankland, Université Grenoble Alpes

Jonathan Birch, London School of Economics and Political Science

Antonin Broi, Wuhan University

Heather Browning, University of Southampton

Mark Budolfson, University of Texas at Austin

Émilie Dardenne, Université Rennes 2, Institut universitaire de France

Alice Di Concetto, The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy, SciencesPo

Sam Ducourant, Université de Liège

Julien Dugnoille, University of Exeter

Romain Espinosa, CIRED, CNRS

François Jaquet, Université de Strasbourg

Marine Lercier, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Eze Paez, Pompeu Fabra University

François-Xavier Roux-Demare, Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Réjane Sénac, SciencesPo

Cédric Sueur, Université de Strasbourg, Institut universitaire de France

Nicolas Treich, Toulouse School of Economics

Richard Twine, Edge Hill University

Enrique Utria, independent researcher

Local organizing committee

Antonin Broi, Wuhan University

Émilie Dardenne, Université Rennes 2, Institut universitaire de France

Romain Espinosa, CIRED, CNRS

Timeline

Deadline for abstracts (400-word summary): January 8, 2025

Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2025

Registration deadline: May 1, 2025

Conference date: June 4-5, 2025

Partners

Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Institut Universitaire de France

Région Bretagne

Rennes Métropole

Research Team Anglophonie : Communautés, Écritures, Université Rennes 2

Location

Université Rennes 2