Previous Terms
Trinity Term 2023
Meetings are held at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
91 Iffley Road, Oxford (opposite the University Sports Centre)
Week 2: Monday 1 May: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Mattia Cecchinato (Jesus College) on The Mind that Matters: Degrees of Sentience and Moral Status
Week 4: Monday 15 May: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Caius Gibeily (Oriel College) on Beyond the Backbone: Decoding Invertebrate Pain and Suffering
Week 8: Monday 12 June: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Yusef Atta (Wycliffe Hall) on What Can Intelligent Machines do to Advance the Cause of Non-Human Animal Welfare?
Week 8: Friday 16 June: 7.30pm
End of Term Social
Gardeners’ Arms
Hilary Term 2023
Meetings are held at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
91 Iffley Road, Oxford (opposite the University Sports Centre)
Week 2: Monday 23 January: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Teresa Habib Meriggi (Treasurer) on Animal Rights as a Feminist Issue
Week 4: Monday 6 February: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Jonathan Howes (Vice President) on The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Moving Away from Anthropocentrism
Week 6: Monday 20 February: 8pm
Meeting and AGM
Presentation by Anna Wotherspoon (Wadham College) on Challenging the Legal Classification of Animals as Chattels
Week 8: Thursday 9 March: 7pm
End of Term Potluck
Bring and Share Meal
Michaelmas Term 2022
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Thursday 6 – Friday 7 October in University Parks
For more information about the Society please see our Frequently Asked Questions.
Week 2: Monday 17 October: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Professor Andrew Linzey (Emeritus Senior Member) on A Critical Introduction to Animal Rights
Week 4: Monday 31 October: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Kajuli Claeys (President) on Animality and Unkindness in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hopfrog” and Other Stories
Week 6: Monday 14 November: 8pm
Meeting Cancelled
Week 8: 28 November 2022: 7pm
End of Term Dinner at St Anne’s College
RSVP Required
Trinity Term 2022
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
Meetings are held at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
91 Iffley Road, Oxford (opposite the University Sports Centre), if circumstances change they will be over zoom.
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Week 2: Monday 2 May: 8pm
No Meeting
Week 4: Monday 16 May: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Chrishen Gomez (Zoology Department) on Alleviating Ecosystem Level Suffering
Week 6: Monday 30 May: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Fionn Kennedy (Vice President) on Are there Good Dogs? The Moral Capacities of Animals
Week 8: Monday 13 June: 7pm
End of Year Potluck
Bring and share meal – cancelled due to covid
Hilary Term 2022
Forthcoming Meetings:
Week 2: Monday 24 January: 8pm
Meeting
Cancelled due to covid
Week 4: Monday 7 February: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Mary Whittingdale (President) on Animal Ethics in Conversation with Eco-Feminist Theology
Week 6: Monday 21 February: 8pm
Meeting and AGM
Presentation by Saumya Varma (Christ Church College) on Animal Ethics in J. M. Coetzee’s Work
Week 7: Monday 28 February: 7pm
End of term potluck
Bring and share meal
Michaelmas Term 2021
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 6 – Thursday 7 October in University Parks
For more information about the Society please see our Frequently Asked Questions.
Week 2: Monday 18 October: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Professor Andrew Linzey (Emeritus Senior Member) and Dr Clair Linzey (Organising Member) on Bringing Animal Ethics into Any Discipline
Week 4: Monday 1 November: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Jacob Brandler (Vice President) on Do “Animals” Have Histor(ies) and Can/Should Humans Interpret Them?
Week 6: Monday 15 November: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Mary Whittingdale (President) on Animal Ethics in Conversation with Eco-Feminist Theology
Week 8: Monday 29 November: 7pm
End of term potluck
Bring and share meal
Trinity Term 2021
Forthcoming Meetings on Zoom:
Links will be provided ahead of time through the mailing list.
Email depdirector@oxfordanimalethics.com to join the mailing list.
Week 2: Monday 3 May: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
Presentation by Anne Merrill (Brasenose College) on Nonhumans and Meat-Eating in Horror Films
Week 4: Monday 17 May: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
Presentation by Kajuli Claeys (Balliol College) on Cripple Crow, Mad Dog: Animal Ethics in Conversation with Disability Studies
Week 5: Saturday 29 May: 3pm
In Person Social
Meeting in outdoor space. Limited numbers, RSVP essential.
Week 8: Sunday 13 June: 3pm
In Person Social
Meeting in outdoor space. Limited numbers, RSVP essential.
Hilary Term 2021
Forthcoming Meetings on Zoom:
Links will be provided ahead of time through the mailing list.
Email depdirector@oxfordanimalethics.com to join the mailing list.
Week 2: Monday 25 January: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
Presentation by Jonathan Howes (Merton College) on Animal Paradoxes: Our Contradictory Attitudes About Animals
Week 4: Monday 8 February: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
Presentation by Bella Forristal (Magdalen College) on Against ‘Humane Meat’: Why Longtermist Consequentialists Should Reject the ‘Logic of the Larder’
Week 6: Monday 22 February: 8pm
Zoom Meeting and AGM
Presentation by Noah Wescombe (St Catherine’s College) on Current Social and Political Obstacles to Communicating Veganism
Week 8: Monday 8 March: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
Presentation by Jacob Brandler (Linacre College) on Frederick Douglass on Dred Scott: How a Critique of a Slave Case Might Inform Discussions of Animal Rights
Michaelmas Term 2020
Forthcoming Meetings on Zoom:
Links will be provided ahead of time through the mailing list.
Email depdirector@oxfordanimalethics.com to join the mailing list.
Freshers’ Week: Saturday 10 October: 2pm
Meet the Committee and Freshers’ Q and A
Join us on Zoom to find out more about the Society: https://zoom.us/j/95738458303
For more information about the Society please see our Frequently Asked Questions.
Week 2: Monday 19 October: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
A Discussion between Dr Clair Linzey (Organising Member) and Katarzyna Jaroszewicz (Vice President) on What is Animal Ethics?
Week 4: Monday 2 November: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
Presentation by Vincent Jordan (President) on Animals in Ancient Egypt: Diachronic Morality?
Week 6: Monday 16 November: 8pm
Zoom Meeting and Film Screening
Film Screening on The Ethics of Human and Animal Experiments
Giacomo Vagni (Nuffield College) will introduce his film Longing for the Light followed by a Q&A
Week 8: Monday 30 November: 8pm
Zoom Meeting
Presentation by David Holroyd (Vice President) on Too Cute to Eat? The Ethics of Alpaca Farming in the UK
Due to the coronavirus pandemic there were no meetings in Trinity 2020.
Hilary Term 2020
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
Meetings are held at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
91 Iffley Road, Oxford (opposite the University Sports Centre)
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Week 2: Monday 27 January: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Katie Jaroszewicz (Merton College) on Killing Animals in a Man’s World: Is there a Link Between Hunting and Toxic Masculinity?
Week 4: Monday 10 February: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Felix Taylor (President) on The Case for Not Eating Cephalopods
Week 6: Monday 24 February: 8pm
Meeting and AGM
Presentation by Giacomo Vagni (Nuffield College) on Plant-based diets and veganism: Long-term alliance or future schism?
Week 8: Wednesday 11 March:
End of Term Formal
Dinner at Exeter College
Michaelmas Term 2019
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 9th – Thursday 10th October (0th Week) in the Exam Schools
Week 2: Sunday 20th October: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Professor Andrew Linzey (Emeritus Senior Member) on Ethical vegetarianism and veganism
Week 4: Monday 4th November: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Robyn Trigg (Magdalen College) on Meet your meat: Time for a review of animal product labelling in the UK?
Week 6: Monday 18th November: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Natalie Hill (Vice President) on The cliché of American Indians in harmony with nature: Multidimensional stories and experiences
Week 8: Thursday 5th December
End of term Formal
Dinner at Kellogg College
Trinity Term 2019
Week 2: Monday 6 May: 8pm
Meeting
Debate between Katie Javanaud (Keble College) and Clair Linzey (Organising Member) on Is Religion Good News for Animals?
Week 4: Monday 20 May: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Robyn Trigg (Magdalen College) on Patents, Animal Experiments, and Animal Sentience: Where do we Currently Stand in English law?
Week 6: Monday 18 February: 8pm
No Meeting
Week 8: Monday 17 June: 7pm
End of Year Party
Potluck Dinner at the Centre
Hilary Term 2019
Week 2: Monday 21 January: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Adam Bridgen (Linacre College) on Thomas Tryon (1634-1701) and the Unusual Beginnings of Anti-Fur Thinking
Week 4: Monday 4 February: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Falk Hemsing (St Hilda’s College) on Clean Meat
Week 6: Monday 18 February: 8pm
Meeting and AGM
Presentation by Natalie Hill (Balliol College) on Human-Horse Interactions in the American West; Icons, from Mounted Indians to Cowboys and Wild Mustangs
Week 8: Tue 5 March:
End of Term Formal
Dinner at Balliol College
Michaelmas Term 2018
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 3rd – Thursday 4th October (0th Week) in the Exam Schools
Week 2: Monday 15 October: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Professor Andrew Linzey (Emeritus Senior Member) on The Ethics of Animal Experimentation
Week 4: Monday 29 October: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Isabel Barber (President) on Free School Milk: Natural, Normal, and Necessary?
Week 6: Monday 12 November: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Felix Taylor (Secretary) on John Cowper Powys and Vivisection
Week 7: Monday 19th November
End of Term Formal
Dinner at Oriel College
Trinity Term 2018
Week 2: Monday 30th April: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Daniel Evans (Vice President), Felix Taylor (Secretary), and Kaitlyn Abrams (Vice President) on Saving the Bees (an IBECC presentation)
Week 4: Monday 14th May: 8pm
Meeting
Daniel Evans (Vice President) and Andrew Linzey (Emeritus Senior Member) in conversation about Is Capitalism bad for animals?
Week 6: Monday 28th May: 8pm
Meeting
Presentation by Ben Card (Brasenose College) on Chicken Farming in the American South
Week 8: Monday 11th June
End of Year Potluck
Potluck dinner at the Centre
Hilary Term 2018
Monday 22nd January: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Jack Beckwith (Merton College) on Ecosystem Services: Can we Reduce Nature to Numbers?
Monday 5th February: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Jade Cormack (Treasurer) on Shakespeare and Animal Ethics
Monday 19th February: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting and AGM
Presentation by Tobias Thornes (Secretary) on Difficult Questions in Animal Ethics
Monday 5th – March: (8th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal Dinner at Merton College
Michaelmas Term 2017
Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 4th – Thursday 5th October (0th Week) in the Exam Schools
Monday 16th October 2017: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Professor Andrew Linzey (Senior Member) on Global Animal Protection
Monday 30th October 2017: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by William Gildea (Keble College) on Do Animals Really Have Rights?
Monday 13th November 2017: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Mirjam von Bechtolsheim (Worcester College) on The Archaeology of Animal Sacrifice in Roman Britain
Monday 27th November: 7pm: (8th week)
End of Term Potluck
Potluck dinner at the Centre
Trinity Term 2017
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
Monday 1st May 2017: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting and AGM
Presentation by Dr Violette Pouillard (St Antony’s College) on The Gorilla Perspective: A history from below of zoos in the second half of the twentieth century
Monday 14th May 2017: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Bianca Gillam (Queen’s College) on Feminism and Veganism
Monday 29th May 2017: 8pm: (6th week)
NO MEETING
Monday 11th – 17th June 2017: (8th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal Dinner in College. Details to be confirmed
Hilary Term 2017
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
Monday 23rd January 2017: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Rivers Gambrell (Secretary) on From Guard Dogs to Guide Dogs: The Untold Story of Canines and the Holocaust
Monday 6th February 2017: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Katie Javanaud (Treasurer) on Aśoka the Great
Monday 20th February 2017: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Emily Neil (Worcester College) on the Ethics of Invasive Species Management
Monday 27th February 2017: (7th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal Dinner at Oriel College.
Michaelmas Term 2016
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 5th – Friday 7th October (0th Week) in the Exam Schools
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
Monday 17th October 2016: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Katie Javanaud (Treasurer), Harshmeena Sanghani (New College), and Grace Young (Somerville College) on The Future of Seaworld
Monday 31st October 2016: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Adam Bridgen (Linacre College) on Humphry Primatt and Animal Rights
Monday 14th November 2016: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Tobias Thornes (Oriel College and President) on Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
Monday 28th November: (8th week)
End of Term Potluck Dinner
Potluck dinner at the Centre at 7pm.
Trinity Term 2016
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Monday 2nd May 2016: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Jennifer Clements (President) on Posthumanism
Monday 16th May 2016: (4th week)
No Meeting
Monday 30th May 2016: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Violette Pouillard (St. Antony’s College) on A Historical Perspective of Zoos and Ethics
Monday 13th June 2016: (8th week)
AGM and End of Year Vegan Potluck
With a Q&A on Vegan Nutrition from Chloe Wakelin and George Myer’s (Queen’s College)
Hilary Term 2016
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Monday 25th January 2016: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Katie Javanaud (Keble) on Animals in Buddhism
Monday 15th February 2016: 8pm: (5th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Harshmeena Sanghani (Vice-President) on Can Cell Models Replace Animal Models in Bipolar Disorder Research?
Monday 22nd February 2016: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Geraldine Porter (Corpus Christi) on Writing Animals (Back) into History: The Domestic Dog in Elite Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture
Monday 7th – Friday 11th March 2016: (8th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal Dinner at The Queen’s College.
Michaelmas Term 2015
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th October (0th Week) in the Exam Schools
Monday 19th October 2015: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Professor Andrew Linzey (Senior Member) on The Challenge of Animal Ethics
Monday 2nd November 2015: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Grace Young (Treasurer) on Are they reefs or hazards? When industry can leave equipment in the ocean
Monday 16th November 2015: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Adam Bridgen (Former President) on Free to Range: James Woodhouse’s Animal Environmentalism in The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus (1896)
Monday 30th November – Friday 4th December 2015: (8th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal Dinner at Oriel College.
Trinity Term 2015
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Monday 4th May 2015: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Grace Young (Somerville College) on Noise Pollution in the Ocean
Monday 18th May 2015: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Clair Linzey (Organising Member) on Towards a Liberation Theology for Animals
Tuesday 16th June 2015: (8th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal Dinner in Worcester College.
Hilary Term 2015
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Monday 26th January 2015: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Tobias Thornes (Oriel College) on Animals and Climate Change
Monday 9th February 2015: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Clementine McAteer (Christ Church College) on Attitudes Towards Wolves – What Should Ours Be?
Monday 9th March 2015: (8th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Jennifer Clements (Treasurer) on The Classification of Animals
Michaelmas Term 2014
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 8th – Friday 10th October (0th Week) in the Exam Schools
Monday 20th October 2014: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Presentation by Adam Bridgen (President) on Fatal Food: Thomas Tryon, Animals, and Slavery
Monday 3rd November 2014: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Juliane Beck (Secretary) on Animals and the Plastic in our Oceans
Monday 17th November 2014: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Professor Tom White (Centre Fellow) on SeaWorld: Ethics, Dolphins and Business
Professor White is the Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Business Ethics and Director of the Centre for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He is author of In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier published by Blackwell in 2007.
Wednesday 3rd December 2014: (8th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal dinner in St John’s College.
Trinity Term 2014
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Thursday 1st May 2014: 8pm: (1st week)
Meeting
Presentation by Oxford Team for the International Business Ethics Case Competition
Monday 19th May 2014: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
AGM
Thursday 5th June 2014: (6th week)
End of Term Dinner
Formal Dinner in Worcester College.
Hilary Term 2014
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Monday 27th January 2014: 8pm: (2nd week)
Meeting
Book Launch Party: Alastair Harden, Animals in the Classical World
Monday 10th February 2014: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Rachel Wechsler on Animal Law and Ethics
Monday 24th February 2014: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Kelsi Nagy (Vice President) on Animal Ethics, “Pest” Species, and “Trash Animals”
Monday 10th March 2014: 8pm: (8th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Jennifer Clements on Animals in Science Fiction
Michaelmas Term 2013
Forthcoming Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Join us at Freshers’ Fair
Wednesday 9th – Friday 11th October (0th Week) in the Exam Schools
Monday 21st October 2013: 8pm: (2nd week)
AGM and Meeting
Drinks party and AGM
Monday 4th November 2013: 8pm: (4th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Justin Begley (President) on Early Modern Animal Ethics
Monday 18th November 2013: 8pm: (6th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Robert Lazo (Treasurer) on Lucretius and Animal Ethics
Monday 2nd December 2013: 8pm: (8th week)
Meeting
Presentation by Ash Bond on Yoga and Animal Ethics
Trinity Term 2013
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Monday 29th April 2013: 8pm: (2nd week)
AGM and Meeting
Trinity Term 2010
AGM of the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society
The Annual General Meeting of the Society will take place on Monday 14th June at 8pm at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, 91 Iffley Road (opposite the University Sports Centre). Wine and nibbles will follow the meeting.
Agenda
- Annual report, including accounts for previous year
- Society’s compliance with paragraph 6 of constitution (as required by the Proctors)
- Election of Committee (see below)
- Any other motion of which due notice has been given, and any other relevant business.
The following have been proposed and agreed by the outgoing committee as
officers of the Society for 2010-2011:
Emeritus President: Sarah Harden (ex officio)
President: Joseph Wolyniak
Vice-Presidents: Alastair Harden (ex officio), Alan Lecras (ex officio) and Martin Henig (ex officio)
Secretary: Kelly Dhru
Treasurer: Jonas-Sebastien Beaudry
Senior Member: Andrew Linzey
As required by the Constitution, the official committee is constituted by the President, Secretary, Treasurer and Senior Member, with other officers as ex officio.
Any other nominations must be proposed and seconded, and must be received in writing by the Secretary not less than seven days before the date of the AGM.
Andrew Linzey
Senior Member (for Joseph Wolyniak, Secretary, currently travelling in Europe).
Hilary Term 2010
Tuesday 9th March 2010 at 8pm
Animals in Catholic Theology
Dr Deborah Jones
Bayne Room at Christ Church
Wine/drinks and snacks will be served.
Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 5.30pm
Are dolphins “persons”?
A Public Lecture by Professor Thomas I. White
Mansfield College, Oxford
Garden Building Seminar Room East
This lecture is held under the auspices of the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society and VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford).
For more information contact:
Alastair Harden at alastair.harden@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Michaelmas Term 2009
Thursday, 29th October (3rd week)
Wine and Food Tasting
Vaults and Garden Café, High Street, 8pm
Open to new and returning members. Please RSVP Alastair Harden at alastair.harden@chch.ox.ac.uk if you would like to come.
Thursday, 12th November (5th week)
Discussion: The Ethics of Vegetarianism,
Bayne Room at Christ Church, 8pm
This student-led discussion will begin with a brief exploration on being a vegetarian in Oxford followed by a discussion on the ethical dimensions of vegetarianism.
Thursday, 26th November (7th week)
Discussion: The Ethics of Animal Testing
Bayne Room at Christ Church, 8pm
For nearly a decade, students in Oxford have lived under the spectre of fierce debate over animal testing: this student-led discussion will situate the new labs in their context in relation to the wider debate on animal testing.
Officers of the Animal Ethics Society, 2008-2009
President: Sarah Harden (DPhil student at University College)
Secretary: Alastair Harden (MSt student at Christ Church)
Treasurer: Hannah Thompson (Classics, St Hilda’s College)
Senior Member: The Revd Professor Andrew Linzey
(Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics)
Trinity Term 2009
Meetings at the Centre:
These are informal meetings with drinks and nibbles.
Tuesday 5 May 2009: 7.30pm:
Members’ meeting
to discuss Vegetarian Week in Oxford (4th week)
and vegetarian provision in colleges.
Monday 18 May to Sunday 24 (4th week):
Vegetarian Week in Oxford
Look out for events.
Tuesday 26 May, 7.30pm:
AGM and Members’ Meeting
to elect new officers and plan events for next year.
The meetings will take place at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, 91 Iffley Road, Oxford OX4 1EG.
Hilary Term 2009
Tuesday 17 February: 7.30pm onwards: Party at the Centre
for all students, and Fellows of the Centre.
Seminars at the Centre:
These are small, informal meetings lasting for one hour (a presentation for 20 minutes, and 40 minutes discussion) followed by drinks and nibbles.
Tuesday 27 January, 7.30pm:
Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare
Sir David Madden
Former Ambassador to Greece, and currently Consultant to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).
Tuesday 10 February, 7.30pm:
Human Rights and Animal Rights
Peter Tatchell
Internationally known human rights advocate and Green Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Oxford East.
Tuesday 3 March, 7.30pm:
Member’s meeting
The seminars and the party will take place at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, 91 Iffley Road, Oxford OX4 1EG.
Michaelmas Term 2008
Tuesday 28 October: 7.30pm onwards: Party at the Centre for new and returning students, and Fellows of the Centre.
Seminars at the Centre:
These are small, informal meetings lasting for one hour (a presentation for 20 minutes, and 40 minutes discussion) followed by drinks and nibbles.
Tuesday 11 November, 7.30pm:
Professor Martin Henig
Animals in Antiquity
Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology at University College, London. He was recently Visiting Lecturer in Roman Art at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
Tuesday 18 November, 7.30pm:
The Making of Animals Count
Jasmijn de Boo
Chair of Animals Count, a new political party that aims to help create a better world for people and animals.
Tuesday 2 December, 7.30pm:
Replacing Animal Experiments
Dr Gill Langley
Science Director of the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research and the most knowledgeable person in the UK on alternatives. She was previously a member of the Animal Procedures Committee of the Home Office.
The seminars and the party will take place at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, 91 Iffley Road, Oxford OX4 1EG.
Membership is free and open to all members of the University. For more information, please contact Clair Linzey at depdirector@