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With a total
of 15 events, our Interdisciplinary Lectures on Animal Rights (ilar),
which ran from the 26th of April till the 19th of October 2006,
extended for more than a semester and comprised a range of disciplines
from the philosophy via theology, ethnology, law, veterinary medicine,
human medicine, politics to biology and animal protection. It therefore
covered all the relevant fields of the area.
The speakers were renowned scientists from all over the world and also
politicians and animal rights activists -- including Prof. Dr. Tom
Regan, the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement and the
famous social critic Dr. Eugen Drewermann.
We aimed at being accessible for those attending whilst maintaining
high academic standards, and we wanted to provide an insightful
overview of the field of animal rights and to lay out current problems
and attempts at solving them. We hoped to stimulate interdisciplinary
cooperation among the students and scientists of the University of
Heidelberg and to enhance more generally an awareness of animal rights
issues.
Lecture timetable:
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26th of April: "Animals in the
humanities and natural sciences"
Dr. Markus Wild, philosoper,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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3rd of May: "Biological foundations of
the ethical protection of animals"
Prof. Dr. Hanno Würbel, zoologist,
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
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10th of May: "Kabbala of the animals:
Animal rights within the Jewish religion and why they are collectively
rejected until now"
Dr. Hanna Rheinz, cultural scientist, Munich
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17th of May: "Animal Liberations --
Crimes or consequent ethics?"
Dr. Helmut F. Kaplan, author and philosopher,
Austria
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24th of May: "Animal Rights: An
Introduction"
Prof. Dr. Tom Regan, philosopher, North Carolina
State University, USA
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31st of May: "Animal Rights in Social
Context"
Prof. Dr. Peter S. Wenz, philosopher, University of
Illinois at Springfield, USA
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7th of June: "Do Animals Have Rights,
and Does It Matter if They Don't?"
Prof. Dr. Mylan Engel Jr., philosopher, Northern
Illinois University, USA
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14th of June: "Animals in law -- legal
policy posits"
Dr. Antoine F. Goetschel, lawyer, Foundation for
Animals in Law, Switzerland
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21st of June: "Animal Rights --
Ethical foundations and their reality from the perspective of a public
health veterinarian"
Prof. Dr. Jörg Luy, veterinarian, Free
University of Berlin
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28th of June: "Animal rights -- Its
dynamics and decisions on conflicts arising in practice"
Dr. Eisenhart von Loeper, lawyer, Menschen
für Tierrechte e.V.
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5th of July: "Between Apathy and
Empathy: Religious Teachings from an animal ethics perspective"
Prof. Dr. Kurt Remele, Christian theologist,
Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria
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12th of July: Discussion "Animal
testing: Is it scientific, is it necessary and is it ethically
appropriate?"
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Dieter Birnbacher (philosopher)
Participants: Prof. Dr. Axel W. Bauer (ethics of
medicine), Silke Bitz (biologist), PD Dr. Gábor
B. Szabó (heart surgeon),
Prof. Dr. Ursula Wolf (philosopher)
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19th of July: "The
metaphysics of apes: Negotiating the animal-human boundary"
Prof. Dr. Raymond Corbey, archaeologist and
philosopher, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
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19th of July: Discussion "Animal
rights in politics"
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Peter McLaughlin (philosopher)
External expert: Prof. Dr. Raymond Corbey
(archaeologist and philosopher)
Participants: Lothar Binding (SPD), Eva
Bulling-Schroeter (Die Linke.PDS),
Hans-Michael Goldmann (FDP), Dr. Peter
Jahr (CDU), Renate Rastätter
(Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
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26th of July: "Why
Animals Do Not Have Rights"
Prof. Dr. Carl Cohen, philosopher, University of
Michigan, USA
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19th of October: "'How
is now with thy animals, say' -- On the necessity of a new ethics"
Dr. Eugen Drewermann, Christian theologist,
Paderborn
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Further
information and videos of the individual talks can be found at
www.vorlesungen-tierrechte.de
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