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The New Sent(i)ence Published
Congratulations to CAF 2023 grantees Ashley Capps (left) and Allison Titus for the publication of The New Sent(i)ence: Revisioning the Animal in 21st-Century Poetry, a collection of poems about animals. The book, which features work by Wendell Berry, Lucille Clifton, E. E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, Ross Gay, and Margaret Atwood, among many others, has a foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, and is published by Trinity University Press. You can purchase it here.
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just wondering . . . and Animated Wor(l)ds
We love it when CAF grantees cross-pollinate their work. Such is the case with Maria Martelli of the just wondering . . . collective, whose poem “a world that might be a home” (a collaboration with musician and spoken word artist Teodora Retegan) will shortly be available on the website of Animated Wor(l)ds, a multimedia publication by fellow CAF Grantees Elizabeth Tavella and Eva Spiegelhofer, which is due to launch in June 2026. Maria presented her poem (which she animated herself) alongside Elizabeth and Eva in a webinar at the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence. Click here to watch (the poem begins at the 41-minute mark). You can follow the emergence of Animated Wor(l)ds on Instagram and sign up here to stay updated.
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Visa Kurki: The 2026 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
Visa Kurki, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki, will deliver the eighth annual 2026 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture on June 8th, 10:00 a.m. EDT.
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Two Talks at the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence
Friday April 10, 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET: Join 2023 CAF grantees Eva Spiegelhofer and Elizabeth Tavella for a talk about their project, Animated Wor(l)ds. Joiining them will be 2020 CAF grantee Maria Martelli of just wondering . . . and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd. To register, click here.
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Friday May 1, Time TBD: Join 2025 CAF grantee Rimona Afana for “Multispecies Domicide in Gaza: The Annihilation of Human Homes, Nonhuman Homes, and Homeland.” For more info and to register, click here.
The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence works “side by side with Earth and Animal kin, we offer teachings and practices which align human minds and lives in harmony with Nature’s ethics and values.” -
Moral Character and Meat Eating: A Lecture
Zachary Ferguson, the 2025 Regan Research Fellow at the Animal Rights & Animal Welfare Archives at North Carolina State University, will give a lecture on May 1, 12:00 pm on his research. To register, click here.
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Meet the 2026 CAF Grantees
This year’s 14 grantees represent a panoply of intellectual and creative work being produced on behalf of animals. There’s a theologian, a philosopher, a science policy expert, a cultural historian, an environmental scientist, and a professor of ethnic studies. There’s a filmmaker, an animator, a writer, a collagist, a curator, and a theater director. They advocate for orangutans, turtles, cats, rats, whales, and guinea fowl; they come from Argentina, Canada, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Ukraine, and the United States; and they provide a glimpse into the depth and range of the 658 people who applied this year. For more on them and their work, click here.
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Marina Baptista Rosa’s Citation
Legal scholar Marina Vitoria Baptista Rosa received a CAF grant in 2023 to study protecting animals in the Brazilian constitution. Her paper, entitled “Animals as Subjects of Rights: Brazil’s Constitutional Blueprint,” was published in the LEOH: Journal of Animal Law, Ethics, and One Health, in 2024.
In 2025, her paper was cited in a dissenting opinion by Justice Engin Yıldırım at the Constitutional Court of Turkey. Marina writes: “My paper was written during my PhD in Finland, and at a time when I was living in the UK. It is therefore particularly meaningful to see this piece of work resonate in a completely different context, now reaching the Constitutional Court of Turkey.” She continues, “I wanted to share this with CAF as an example of the impact made possible by the Foundation’s support. This project would not have come to fruition without your generosity.”
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Symposium: (Against) Animal Capitalism
This event has passed, but we have recordings—Day 1 and Day 2 are below!
On Saturday March 28th and Sunday March 29th, 2026, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, hosted a virtual and in-person two-day symposium entitled “(Against) Animal Capitalism.” The speakers included CAF grantees Jo-Anne McArthur, and Rimona Afana, and three Tom Regan lecturers: Syl Ko, Charlotte Blattner, and Dinesh Wadiwel. The symposium saw the launch of a book based on the ongoing groundbreaking “Why Look at Animals?” exhibition, curated by Katerina Gregos, who received the 2025 Nancy Regan Arts Prize. The book contains a preface by CAF ED, Martin Rowe, on arts and scholarship in animal advocacy. The symposium was organized by artist and scholar Terike Haapoja (whose art is featured above).
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Apply for the 2026 Regan Fellowship
You’re invited to apply for the annual Tom Regan Research Fellowship, a $5,000 stipend to conduct research in the Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Archives at North Carolina State University, where Tom Regan, CAF’s co-founder, taught philosophy for 34 years. The repository, which began with Tom’s own archive in 2003, is now one of the most extensive in the Western hemisphere. This year will be the eighth such fellowship that CAF has given. Previous researchers have been scholars in anthrozoology, history of science, gender studies, and philosophy. For more details on the fellowship, click here.
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Ongoing Tom Regan Translations
For those intimidated by the prospect of reading the 400+ pages of The Case for Animal Rights, Tom Regan’s magnum opus of 1983 (you can, of course, listen to it), his pamphlet The Philosophy of Animal Rights offers a quick digest of his principle ideas. This work is now available in different languages. Currently, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Rainer Ebert, the pamphlet is in Bengalli/Bangla, German, and Kiswahili. Of the Kiswahili version, Rainer writes: “This is the first time any of Regan’s work has been translated into Kiswahili, and possibly into any African language. Kiswahili is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa and an official language in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. The animal rights movement in East Africa is still in its infancy, and we hope this translation will help spark important conversations about animal rights. We plan to distribute copies to universities and colleges in East Africa, particularly to philosophy departments where animal ethics is taught. We have also partnered with the Tanzania Animal Welfare Society (TAWESO). They are excited to add a section on animal rights philosophy to their programs.” To contribute to the campaign to print copies in Kiswahil, send money via PayPal or Zelle to rainerebert@gmail.com, using the keywords “Regan in Kiswahili.”
And there’s more! Thanks to Dr. Christian Koeder, working collaboratively, Regan’s pamphlet along with four commentaries is now available in Spanish and Portuguese. More translations are planned in Romanian, Italian, Russian, Catalan, Dutch, Hebrew, and Swedish, along with printed versions available online. Watch this space!
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