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Shaina Sadai on Multispecies Justice
Dr. Shaina Sadai (a 2022 CAF grantee) gave the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society Section‘s September webinar—the first one co-sponsored by CAF. The subject was “Sea Level Rise and Multispecies Climate Justice.” To watch the video, click below. To see other videos in the series, click here.
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The Animals’ Agenda Digitization Program Begins
Zoe Maready (left) and Lauren Sankey, both students in the School of Information and Library Science’s Master of Science degree program at North Carolina State University, are busy scanning every single page of all 157 issues of The Animals’ Agenda magazine, which, as part of the archives of the Animal Rights Network, is housed at the Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Archives at NCSU. Once the issues are scanned, they’ll be made available online. Our fundraiser to publicize the archives continues; to make a tax-deductible contribution, click here.
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Bridging Art and Science on a Changing Planet
On Thursday, September 25, at 6 pm, CAF board member and grantee Gal Nissim and 2022 Regan Research Fellow Kat Poje will join a panel of fellow experts to discuss climate change, animal studies, and art in conjunction with the exhibition Handle with Care: Robert Rauschenberg’s Ecological Conscience at the Grey Art Museum. The event will take place at 20 Cooper Square, Room 101, in New York City. A reception will follow the discussion. For more details, and to register, click here.
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Intersecting Lives: The Climate Crisis and the Rights of Nature and Animals
On Monday September 23rd, at 10 am at NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South (breakfast provided), CAF, Brighter Green, and the NYU Animal Studies Department present a panel on how the rights of nature interact with animal rights in the context of the climate crisis, with a focus on action. A short film (see above), which won first place in the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest, will be screened. The speakers are Emma Crowe from the More Than Human Life program at NYU Law School (see below), Mia MacDonald from Brighter Green, Lori Marino from the Whale Sanctuary Project, Natalia Green from Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (invited), and scientist David Gruber from Project CETI (invited). To register (room TBA), write to macdonald@brightergreen.org.
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Mook Lion Is Restoring the Roam
South African 2025 grantee Daniel “Mook Lion” Chapman has revealed the first mural for his “Restoring the Roam” project, which celebrates the reconnection of a wildlife corridor that has been fragmented for centuries in the Eastern Cape.
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The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity
CAF has TEN free tickets for the Earth Law Center’s production on September 24 during Climate Week in New York City of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity, which is partly sponsored by a CAF grant. Write to admin@cultureandanimals.org. Tickets can be bought here.
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CAF to Sponsor the ASI/ASA Colloquium Series
CAF is pleased to announce that, beginning this Fall, we’ll be co-sponsoring an annual colloquium series with the Animals & Society Institute and the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society Section.
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Listen to Keane Southard’s Requiem for Animals
Composer Keane Southard‘s 50-minute major choral-orchestral work (for which Keane received a CAF grant) is now available in a live recording. For interviews with Keane on Requiem for Animals and its effect on the performers, click here, and here.
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Remembering John Robbins and Paula Sparks
Martin Rowe reflects on the passing of John Robbins and Paula Sparks.
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The Naked Philosopher Encounters the Gaze of His Cat
“Before the cat that looks at me naked, would I be ashamed like a beast that no longer has the sense of its nudity? Or, on the contrary, like a man who retains the sense of his nudity? Who am I, therefore? Who is it that I am? Whom should this be asked of if not of the other? And perhaps of the cat herself?”—Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am
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