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  Our October 2022 newsletter is out, full of information. We have updates on the extraordinary work of our grantees; Kat Poje’s article on researching the animal advocacy archives at NCSU; and a reminder to sign up for the Tom Regan Memorial Lecture on October 17 with Charlotte Blattner and Will Kymlicka.

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  Regan Fellow Kat Poje Reflects on Her Research in the Animal Rights Archives

  Organizing My Ignorance
  In the print version of her first Reith Lecture, the late Hilary Mantel wrote “history is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past.”[1] This line has been running through my mind as I’ve sat in coffee shops and libraries the last few weeks, trying to distill my experience of working in NCSU’s archives this August. Partly so I can write this report you are now reading, partly so I can understand for myself what precisely happened to my research project during the month I sat surrounded by so many archival boxes.

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  Charlotte Blattner to Give Tom Regan Memorial Lecture. Will Kymlicka to Respond.

  CAF is delighted to announce that Charlotte Blattner (left), Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Berne, Switzerland, will give the second 2022 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture on “Transitional Justice and Animal Rights” on Monday October 17, at 3:00 p.m (Swiss time) and 9:00 a.m. (Kingston, Ontario time). Her respondent will be Will Kymlicka (right), Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Click here to attend.

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  Episode 3 of Martin’s Act at 200 Audio Documentary Available

  Episode 3 of CAF’s ongoing audio documentary on two hundred years of animal advocacy following 1822’s “Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act,” sponsored by the Irishman Richard “Humanity Dick” Martin, is now available. (Listen to episodes 1 here and 2 here.)

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