The NeuroPsyche Research Club is pleased to invite all interested parties to a lecture on the "Role of architecture and human structures as hindering our ability to recognize the personhood of animals" by Dr. Thomas Aiello, Professor of Anthrozoology at Valdosta State University.
Lecture on vegan ethics
Dr. Thomas Aiello is a Professor of history, Africana studies and anthrozoology at Valdosta State University in Georgia, USA. He authored several articles and a book on animal studies.
The Tyranny of Architecture defends the practice of vegan ethics in a way fundamentally unique among such arguments. It makes the case that in a human society built on artificial constructs, the only demonstrable ethics not part of an imagined community is that of respecting the right to life and contentment, construed for farmed animals as adequate food, space, and other basic amenities, along with the right not to be tortured and killed for the unnecessary whims of humans existing mentally within a subset of artificial constructs that do not include those nonhuman animals.
Professor Aiello argues that the development of such an apologetics is important, as though veganism is not a religion, its adherents are devoted to the core principles of veganism in much the same way that religious people are (even creating within the movement legitimate schisms like abolitionism versus welfarism). That being the case, apologetics and comprehensive philosophical defenses of veganism demonstrating its particular necessity in a postmodern age are inordinately relevant.
The lecture will be held in English.
Lecturer
Thomas Aiello
Ph.D.
Is a Professor of history, Africana studies, and anthrozoology at Valdosta State University in Georgia, USA. He is an author of more than twenty books and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles. His work helped amend the Louisiana constitution to make nonunanimous juries illegal and was cited in the United States Supreme Court as part of its decision ruling them unconstitutional. His most recent books are The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity (Duke, 2021), The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century (LSU, 2021), and The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath (Mississippi, 2021). He holds Ph.D. degrees in history and anthrozoology, and he also writes about the relationship between humans and animals, in particular the role of speciesism and human supremacy in creating vulnerabilities for nonhuman animals. He is a member of the board of the Animals and Society Institute. Learn more at www.thomasaiellobooks.com.
Organizer
NeuroPsyche Research Club
Date and Location
December 16, 2022, 16:00–17:30
SWPS University, Chodakowska 19/31, Warsaw, room S201
Contact
Dorota Bednarek, Ph.D. / Assistant Professor
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