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Read Our 2023 Report
It’s been a banner year at CAF. Read our 2023 Report on the achievements of our grantees and associates.
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In Memory of Karen Davis
CAF’s Executive Director Martin Rowe remembers Karen Davis, the founder of United Poultry Concerns, who died on November 4, 2023. (You can also read her obituary in the New York Times.)
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Abandon Every Hope: A Discussion with Hayley Singer
In Spring 2023, Australian Hayley Singer, a 2020 CAF grantee, published Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead (Upswell Publishing), a “thanatography” for the times we’re living in. She joined Dutch political activist and literary scholar Jesseka Batteau and Martin Rowe, executive director of the Culture & Animals Foundation, to talk about veganism, the COVID crisis, education, creativity, and confronting the daily suffering of animals.
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Listen to Singer reading fragments of her book.
A Thanatography
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Inferno
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The 2023 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture with Cheryl Abbate and Dale Jamieson
Cheryl Abbate, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, presented the 2023 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture on “The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?” at Harvard Law School on October 5, 2023.
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Her Blue Body
Kittie Mae Morris received a CAF grant for “BLUE.,” an interdisciplinary dance piece that brings awareness to dolphin endangerment. Tymesha-Elizabeth Kindell and Gauri Kasarla, 2023 CAF Navab Fellows, talked to Kittie Mae about “BLUE.,”—which she performed in August at the Anacostia Art Center’s Black Box Theatre in Washington, D.C.—as well as her interest in these endangered animals. The title of this piece, Her Blue Body, refers to the title of Alice Walker’s poem about Mother Earth, ‘Her Blue Body Everything We Know.’
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Archives and Counterarchives
Whitney Barlow Robles, the 2023 Tom Regan Research Fellow, reflects on her time in the Regan Archives at North Carolina State University Libraries.
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Dale Jamieson on His Friendship with Tom and Nancy Regan
In 2016, the CAF board invited friends, colleagues, and associates of Tom and Nancy Regan to reflect on the then thirty-year legacy of CAF’s work. Fellow philosopher and advisory board member Dale Jamieson submitted his thoughts on a friendship that went back to the mid-1970s.
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Picturing Pigs: Making the Invisible Visible
When photographers Mary Shannon Johnstone and Jane M Casteline received a grant for “Picturing Pigs,” they couldn’t have imagined the obstructions—both literal and metaphorical—they’d face. Martin Rowe explains.
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Sondra Jackson-Opoku: Manatees and Marginalized Communities
Sandra Jackson-Opoku received a grant from the Culture & Animals Foundation to research and write Ellie Mac, Please Come Back!—a children’s book on saving the manatees. Tymesha-Elizabeth Kindell, a 2023 Navab Fellow at CAF, talked to Sandra about her work and her interest in these endangered sea mammals.
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Entangled: Multispecies Lives, Justice, and Narratives
Gauri Kasarla, a 2023 Navab Fellow at Columbia University, interviews 2020 CAF grantee Nathaniel Otjen on his research project and book, Entangled Lives: Multispecies Selves, Justice, and Narratives.
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