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UPF-CAE is a think-tank based at Pompeu Fabra University which focuses on animal ethics from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives https://www.upf.edu/web/cae-center-for-animal-ethics

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¡Últimos días para enviar propuesta al congreso "Geu ere animalia II"!

📅20-22 de abril
📍Facultad de Letras, Vitoria-Gasteiz

21.11.2025 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Laura Fernández, miembro del UPF-CAE, participará en el evento solidario para Sulala Animal Rescue (refugio de animales en Gaza) en Málaga. Su charla tratará sobre "Transfeminismos y liberación animal".

📍Espacio la Jábega
🗓️7 de diciembre
🕓12h

21.11.2025 11:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
AI, Animals, and the Future: Aligning AI Trajectories with Nonhuman Welfare The ethical implications of AI have received increasing attention in recent years, yet a crucial blind spot remains: the impact of AI on nonhuman animals. As ...

Once accepted, the full paper submission deadline is 22 March 2026.

🔗Call for Papers – link.springer.com/collections/...

Submissions are now open.

21.11.2025 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This Special Issue has been highly anticipated due to the moral urgency of the topic, combined with the quality of the journal. Scholars interested in these issues are warmly encouraged to submit an abstract by 22 December 2025.

21.11.2025 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dr Catia Faria, board member of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, is co-editing with Yip Fai Tse a Special Issue for The Journal of Ethics titled:

“AI, Animals, and the Future: Aligning AI Trajectories with Nonhuman Welfare.”

21.11.2025 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
ANIMALISMOS DECOLONIALES, INDÍGENAS Y RAIZALES: 
miradas críticas desde el Sur
Seminario CAE
Presenta: Juan Jo Ponce León
Jueves, 20 de noviembre
18.00-20.00h CET
ZOOM
ID de reunión: 972 7535 8003
Código de acceso: 897078

ANIMALISMOS DECOLONIALES, INDÍGENAS Y RAIZALES: miradas críticas desde el Sur Seminario CAE Presenta: Juan Jo Ponce León Jueves, 20 de noviembre 18.00-20.00h CET ZOOM ID de reunión: 972 7535 8003 Código de acceso: 897078

🔴 | Seminario UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics

Juan Jo Ponce León presentará "ANIMALISMOS DECOLONIALES, INDÍGENAS Y RAIZALES: miradas críticas desde el Sur" este jueves, 20 de noviembre.

🕓18.00-20.00h CET
💻Via Zoom

17.11.2025 10:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🐶 V Congreso de Derechos de los Animales [22 de octubre - Ernest Lluch] YouTube video by Ministerio de Derechos Sociales, Consumo y A2030

📍Sede del Ministerio de Derechos Sociales, Consumo y Agenda 2030, Madrid

📽️Información adicional y vídeo del acto (ponencia a partir del minuto 2:50:40)

www.youtube.com/live/BEHM4lC...

14.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

El 22 de octubre de 2025, Eze Paez (miembro del UPF-CAE) participó en el V Congreso de Derechos de los Animales, organizado por el Ministerio de Derechos Sociales, Consumo y Agenda 2030, con su ponencia “Los animales como sujetos de justicia: fundamentos y políticas públicas”.

14.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
ANIMALISMOS DECOLONIALES, INDÍGENAS Y RACIALES: 
miradas críticas desde el Sur
Seminario CAE
Presenta: Juan Jo Ponce León
Jueves, 20 de noviembre
18.00-20.00h CET
ZOOM
ID de reunión: 972 7535 8003
Código de acceso: 897078

ANIMALISMOS DECOLONIALES, INDÍGENAS Y RACIALES: miradas críticas desde el Sur Seminario CAE Presenta: Juan Jo Ponce León Jueves, 20 de noviembre 18.00-20.00h CET ZOOM ID de reunión: 972 7535 8003 Código de acceso: 897078

🔴 | Seminario UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics

Juan Jo Ponce León presentará "ANIMALISMOS DECOLONIALES, INDÍGENAS Y RACIALES: miradas críticas desde el Sur" el próximo jueves, 20 de noviembre.

🕓18.00-20.00h CET
💻Via Zoom

14.11.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Animal Suffering and Public Relations | The Ethics of Persuasion in th Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of

Open access means worldwide accessibility. Whether you are working in communication, animal studies, advocacy, or policy, you can now access all the chapters of the book for free.

Download and read the full book here:

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

04.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
 ICAS's 25th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies!
Friday, November 14, 2025
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Mountain Time
They are accepting presentation proposals now through November 9, 2025.
Want to present or just attend and connect? Learn more here: https://criticalanimalstudies.org/2025/10/24/naconference/

ICAS's 25th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies! Friday, November 14, 2025 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Mountain Time They are accepting presentation proposals now through November 9, 2025. Want to present or just attend and connect? Learn more here: https://criticalanimalstudies.org/2025/10/24/naconference/

12.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The closure of Marineland in January 2025 did not mean safety or dignity for the remaining animals. Abandonment, even without public shows, is still a form of cruelty.

Their deaths are not isolated incidents but symptoms of a system that values profit and spectacle over ethics and animal welfare.

12.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Orcas’ biology demands freedom of movement, deep social interaction, and vast, dynamic environments — none of which can ever be met in concrete tanks.

12.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This devastating news is yet another reminder that we cannot continue to accept a world where beings capable of loving and suffering are treated as exhibits or property.

12.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

After months trapped in deteriorating pools, covered with algae and without proper care or stimulation, these magnificent beings have tragically lost their lives.

12.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Two orcas appear dead in filthy tank - when they see drone it's even more tragic Concerns are growing for orcas Wikie and Keijo, a mother and son duo left abandoned in a grimy them park tank, with haunting footage of their lonely fate reducing animal lovers to tears

Wikie and Keijo, a mother and son who have been left abandoned in a grimy theme park tank, have been found dead.
The two orcas were abandoned and left to suffer at the closed Marineland Antibes park in France.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

12.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Núria Almiron, co-founder and co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, is editing a Special Issue for Animals MDPI
titled:

🪶“Species Framed as Invasive or Pests: Influence, Governance, and Storylines in Conservation Biology.”

11.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Seantience | A Documentary about the sentience of aquatic animals
YouTube video by Animal Ethics Seantience | A Documentary about the sentience of aquatic animals

Daniela R. Waldhorn shared her knowledge of shrimp sentience and farmed shrimp welfare.

Other experts include Eva Read, Jonathan Birch, Mart R. Gross, and Oscar Horta.

𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 was produced by Animal Ethics and directed by Xiana Castro.

youtu.be/DfpuhKMN9Vs

11.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Director of Animal Welfare (Rethink Priorities) and member of the UPF-CAE board Daniela R. Waldhorn was featured in a recently released documentary: 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦! Alongside fellow sentience and aquatic animal experts.

11.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Filmar L'endemà 29.10.2025 – Jornada de cinema i pensament

Com pot el cinema contribuir a aquesta transformació? Com pot la pràctica cinematogràfica generar un canvi social en matèria ecològica i d’acció climàtica?"

Més informació a: www.filmarlendema.com

28.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Pel·lícules i literatura de ficció especulativa fa temps que ens alerten d’un futur distòpic i apocalíptic a causa de l’esgotament dels recursos i la crisi climàtica. És necessari construir una nova manera de relacionar-nos amb el planeta i amb els altres éssers que hi conviuen.

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Cinema i acció climàtica. Educar la mirada per relacionar-nos amb el món.

Participants:
Marta Tafalla, filòsofa
Anna Cornudella, cineasta
Emilio Fonseca, cineasta i dibuixant

28.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

El proper 29 d'octubre de 2025, la membre del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics Marta Tafalla participarà en una taula a la Jornada de Pensament i Cinema.

📍Casa Montjuïc (Barcelona)
🗓️29 d'octubre de 2025 – 18:15–19:45 h / Taula 5

28.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Forum 2024: 3Rs - Progress or a Fig Leaf? Our 14th Forum on the 3Rs principles will take place on 11th November 2024 at the Volkshaus Zurich. Register now!

📍Zurich, Switzerland
🗓️Monday, 10 November

Registrations for the event are open until November 5th

animalfree-research.org/en/forum/?fb...

28.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next 10th November 2025, Núria Almiron will participate as a special guest at the Forum 2025: Perception and Power – Barriers to Animal-Free Research, organized by Animal Free Research.

🗣️Prof. Almiron will deliver a talk titled “Exposing Propaganda in Animal Experimentation.”

28.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Laura Fernández, miembro del comité científico del UPF-CAE, escribe sobre el #1N en @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social 👇

22.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Tots els participants van expressar el seu agraïment al ministre Bustinduy, que va abordar aquesta qüestió amb una gran sensibilitat ètica, reconeixent que impulsar aquesta llei és, “com sabia fer-nos veure Jane Goodall, una qüestió de sentit comú”.

20.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paula Casal va assenyalar que, des del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, i en particular des del seu equip jurídic, “ens alegra poder contribuir al fet que aquesta llei, que el Projecte Gran Simio impulsa des de 1998, esdevingui finalment una realitat”.

20.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

la Fundació Animal Guardians, els santuaris Rainfer i Mona, el Projecte Gran Simio i l’Associació Ibèrica de Zoos i Aquaris (AIZA).

20.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

que atorgui protecció legal als grans simis —ximpanzés, bonobos, goril·les i orangutans.

A la trobada hi van participar, a més del ministre i la seva cap de gabinet, Nagua Alba Goveli, el director general de Drets dels Animals, José Ramón Becerra, representants de la Fundació Jane Goodall, (...)

20.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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