Religious Studies Professor Anna Peterson will speak at the College of Charleston about the relationship between animal rights and environmental ethics in an event open to the public at 7 p.m. November 11, 2013 in the Robert Scott Small building (175 Calhoun St.) room 235.
[Related: Learn more about Anna Peterson]
The College’s Department of Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy and First Year Experience program present Peterson’s speech, called “Are Animals Nature?”
Peterson will discuss both the fields of environmental ethics and animal rights to illustrate that the two do not inherently conflict.
[Related: Read Anna Peterson’s book, Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics]
“This event puts into dialogue two perspectives that have historically been in tension, and gives our community a chance to hear a leading scholar speak about how humans conceive of animals and nature,” Religious studies instructor Todd LeVasseur said. “These are important issues in both religious studies and environmental philosophy, but they also relate to myriad other disciplines at the College, so it’s valuable to hear an expert’s opinion on both.”
This event ties to both the religious studies and philosophy departments, and directly relates to a first year seminar course called Religion, Animals and Animal Ethics that focuses on how religions have conceived of, used, taught and interacted with non-human animals through ethics, rituals, myths, sacred texts and narratives, and diet.
[Related: Discover First Year Experience courses]
For more information, contact Todd LeVasseur at levasseurt@cofc.edu.
