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The View From the Bridge: A Recollection of a Friendship
Martin Rowe, CAF’s Executive Director, writes on his and CAF’s three-decades long connection with author Carol J. Adams. A video accompanying this article can be found at the jump.
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J. M. Coetzee is the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize Awardee
The Culture & Animals Foundation is pleased to announce that J. M. Coetzee, the South African-born novelist, multiple Booker Prize winner, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been awarded the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize in recognition of his contribution to animal rights.
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Meet the 2024 Regan Research Fellow Sarah Scott
In addition to Kaitlyn Kitchen, CAF and NSCU Libraries chose as a 2024 Research Fellow Sarah Scott, a professor of philosophy at Manhattan College who was writing a monograph on the moral philosophy of British philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904). In addition to her fellowship at the Libraries, Scott was also a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park in Fall 2024.
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Meet the 2024 Regan Research Fellow Kaitlyn Kitchen
In addition to Sarah Scott, CAF and NCSU chose Kaitlyn Kitchen as a 2024 Regan Research Fellow. Kaitlyn was then a rising senior at Appalachian State University, where they were majoring in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Philosophy. Their thesis project considered the potential limitations of animal rights organizations from feminist and anti-racist perspectives, with a strong consideration for the positive impacts of these groups. At the Archives at NCSU Kaitlyn focused on how animal rights organizations used gendered appeals as a form of advocacy, such as sentimental fiction in the nineteenth century and sexualized billboards of vegan celebrity women in the twentieth century.
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The 2024 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture with Dinesh Wadiwel and Lori Gruen
The seventh annual Tom Regan Lecture was delivered on April 15, 2024 by Dinesh Wadiwel (above left, with Lori Gruen), Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.
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CAF at the 2024 Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit
In May 2024, CAF hosted a panel on the arts and advocacy at the Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Meet CAF’s 2024 Grantees
CAF is pleased to announce our 2024 grantees. They are a composer, a singer, a performance artist, a photographer, an installation artist, a filmmaker, and a creator of immersive-experience VR games. In the research category, CAF’s grantees are an historian, three philosophers, a scholar of modern British literature, an environmental ethicist, and an anthrozoologist. Check out their individual pages for more information on their projects.
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Why Didn’t I Receive a Grant?
We thought it might be helpful to explain our process a little more to help grant applicants increase their chances of success.
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Flaco and Happy
CAF’s Executive Director Martin Rowe reflects on the death of Flaco the owl. Photo: Flaco Memorial in Central Park, February 2023. Courtesy of Amy Trakinski
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In Memory of Steven Wise
CAF’s Executive Director Martin Rowe remembers Steven Wise, the founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), who died on February 15, 2024. (You can read remembrances of Steven here.) Photo: Martin Rowe, Steven Wise, and Patricia Denys at a talk in Venice, California on June 30, 2018. (Mary Holmes/SynergyDogs Media)
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