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Balzan Conference 2025

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Add to Calendar 2025-02-21 09:00:00 2025-02-23 14:00:00 Balzan Conference 2025 Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/balzan-conference-2025 - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public —
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the University community

The Balzan Conference will bring together leading scholars from law and philosophy to explore ethical approaches to animal rights and the connections between ethics and law. This two-day event features fourteen presentations, featuring contributions from various legal and philosophical scholars, including Professor Martha C. Nussbaum herself. Each session will focus on a paper, followed by in-depth critiques and collaborative analysis from attendees. By fostering critical engagement with cutting-edge scholarship, the conference aims to support the next generation of scholars and advance innovative approaches in the study of law, ethics, and animal rights.

This event is part of the research project carried out with half of the 2022 Balzan Prize to Martha C. Nussbaum.

Agenda

  • Friday, February 21, 2025
    • Breakfast
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      • Room VI
    • Welcome Remarks: Martha C. Nussbaum
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      • Room V
    • Session 1
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      • Room V

      • Rory Hanlon, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Program for Public Discourse, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Wonder in the Diversity and Kinship of Nature: Theophrastus, Ancient Animal Ethics, and the Capabilities Approach

    • Session 2
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      • Room V

      • Claudia Hogg-Blake, Independent Scholar: Living Together: Promoting Agency for Companion Animals Through the Co-Construction of Daily Life

    • Session 3
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      • Room V

      • Elena Comay del Junco, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut: Bad Animals: Wrongdoing, Capability, and Agency

    • Lunch
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      • Room VI
    • Session 4
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      • Room V

      • Amy Linch, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Political Science: Violence, Capabilities, and Interspecies Justice

    • Session 5
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      • Room V

      • Breena Holland, Associate Professor of Political Science and the Environmental Initiative, Lehigh University: The Ecological Conditions of Justice for Animals

    • Session 6
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      • Room V

      • Nicolás Thompson-Lleras, Staff Attorney, The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA): Inter-Species Moral Collaboration: Towards a Just Shared Society

    • Session 7
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      • Room V

      • Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University: The Spiral of Wonder and the Laws of Animals: Humankind's Geological History before the Sixth Extinction

    • Dinner (participants only)
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      • The Study
  • Saturday, February 22, 2025
    • Buffet Breakfast
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      • Room VI
    • Session 8
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      • Room V

      • Julian E. L. Gale, Associate, Jones Day: “Take Your Stinking Paws off Me, You Damn Dirty Ape”: Relitigating the Case for Standing for Animals and What it Might Look Like

    • Session 9
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      • Room V

      • Jared I. Mayer, Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow & Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School: Fiduciaries for Animals

    • Session 10
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      • Room V

      • Matt Guillod, Researcher at Harvey; Former associate at Sidley Austin LLP: A Defense of Cultivated Meat: The Capabilities Approach and Just Regulation

    • Lunch
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      • Room VI
    • Session 11
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      • Room V

      • Nethanel Lipshitz, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University: Kafka at the Aquarium: Reflections on the Moral Significance of Species Membership

    • Session 12
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      • Room V

      • Nicolas Delon, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Charleston: The Rats Problem for Capabilities: From Disgust to Wonder

    • Session 13
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      • Room V

      • Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics. Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago: Where the Orcas Swim: Whales, Capabilities, Hope

    • Session 14
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      • Room V

      • Benjamin Elmore, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Ohio University: Contractualism and Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach to Animal Rights

  • Sunday, February 23, 2025 (participants only)
    • Buffet Breakfast
    • Mid-Career Scholar Meeting
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    • Paper discussion with all scholars
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