Humane Education: Increasing sensitivity to animals and humans
July 21-24 2019
St Stephen’s House
University of Oxford
Can education make people more humane?
Can empathy be taught?
Are humans “naturally” violent?
What the role of humane societies in combatting cruelty?
How important is humane education to both animal protection and human protection?
How effective is the existing provision of humane education in schools, colleges, and universities worldwide?
Should public money fund humane education?
What is the rationale behind humane education?
Where are the leading centres of humane education, and who are the leading humane educators?
Does humane education expose the link between animal abuse and human violence?
Should animal ethics be part of humane education?
These are some of the questions that will be addressed at our 2019 Summer School. We invite educationalists, ethicists, historians, lawyers, criminologists, philosophers, theologians, psychologists, social scientists, humane society representatives, and others from around the globe to participate and present. We aim to produce a pioneering book volume that breaks new ground.
Abstracts of proposed contributions (no more than 200 words) should be sent to the Director of the Summer School, Clair Linzey via email: depdirector@oxfordanimalethics.com. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 February, 2019.
All selected papers will be published in book form or in the Journal of Animal Ethics.
The Summer School is being arranged by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (www.oxfordanimalethics.com).
St Stephen’s House is an Anglican Theological College and a Hall of the University of Oxford (http://www.ssho.ox.ac.uk/).