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J. M. Coetzee’s “The Lives of Animals”: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Its Publication
On the occasion of the awarding of novelist J. M. Coetzee with the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize, CAF convened a webinar with three leading scholars to discuss Coetzee’s…
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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…
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Meet the 2024 Regan Research Fellow Sarah Scott
In addition to Kaitlyn Kitchen, CAF and NSCU Libraries have chosen as a 2024 Research Fellow Sarah Scott, a professor of philosophy at Manhattan College who is…
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Meet the 2024 Regan Research Fellow Kaitlyn Kitchen
In addition to Sarah Scott, CAF and NCSU have chosen Kaitlyn Kitchen as a 2024 Regan Research Fellow. Kaitlyn is a rising senior at Appalachian State…
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Two Regan Research Fellows Announced for 2024
The Culture & Animals Foundation and NCSU Libraries have awarded 2024 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowships to Kaitlyn Kitchen (left), a rising senior at…
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The Sixth Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
The sixth annual Tom Regan Lecture will be delivered by Dinesh Wadiwel (left, with Lori Gruen), Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies in the School of Social and…
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The 2023 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
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…
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The Case for Animal Rights Audiobook Now Available
To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights, CAF has produced an audiobook version of the philosophical classic.
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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…
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Cheryl Abbate Is the 2023 Tom Regan Memorial Lecturer
On October 5, 2023 at Harvard Law School, Cheryl Abbate, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will present the sixth Annual Tom Regan…
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Whitney Barlow Robles Is the 2023 Tom Regan Research Fellow
CAF is delighted to announce that Whitney Barlow Robles has been chosen as the 2023 Tom Regan Research Fellow. Professor Robles has a Ph.D. in American…
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CAF Research Fellow Kat Poje to Speak on Her Study at NCSU
Harvard historian of science Kat Poje (left), a 2022 Regan Research Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries Animal Rights Archive, will lecture on “Humane Societies, Alternatives to Euthanasia, and Animal Experimentation…
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CAF Welcomes Mariana Arellano Corbello and Carol Kline to the Board
CAF is delighted to welcome Mariana Arellano Corbello (left) and Carol Kline to the Board of Directors, as we say a heartfelt “thank you” to Mylan Engel…
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My Grandfather’s Voice
CAF Associate Brooke Rucker reflects on listening to her grandfather, Tom Regan, in an interview from 2001, produced for the Recording Animal Advocacy Oral History Project.
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Both 2022 Regan Memorial Lectures Now Online
The second 2022 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture by Charlotte Blattner (left) on “Transitional Justice and Animal Rights“, with response from
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The Creative Lives of Animals: An Interview with Carol Gigliotti
The Creative Animal An Interview with Carol Gigliotti In 1988, artist and scholar Carol Gigliotti presented a body of work called “The Dante Series” to Tom and Nancy Regan of…
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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
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Nancy Regan Memorial Recording Available
On July 11, 2022, friends of Nancy Regan gathered online for a memorial to CAF’s co-founder, who died in 2021. You can listen to an audio recording of the…
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Syl Ko Delivers the 2021 Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture; Christopher Carter Responds
On November 18, independent scholar and philosopher Syl Ko delivered the 2021 Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, which was postponed from 2020.
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Nancy Regan: 1938–2021
The Culture & Animals Foundation mourns the passing of its co-founder, Nancy Regan, in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday October 20, aged 83. You can read her obituary in…
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The Year in Review: 2020
The year 2020 proved challenging for CAF, as it did for so many around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. We were forced to cancel the Regan Research…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Peter Singer: Giving Equal Consideration to All Beings
Peter Singer is a moral philosopher best known for his book Animal Liberation in which he argues for consideration of the interests of…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member: Dale Jamieson: Imagining a Better World
Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, an affiliated professor of law, director of the Animals Studies Initiative, and the founding director of the
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Linda Brant—Monument for the Unmourned
On May 18, 2019, artist Linda Brant, unveiled a monument dedicated to farmed animals at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale,…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni: Working with Nature
Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni is the owner and founder of Querciabella, a pioneering winery based in Tuscany, Italy. Querciabella first went organic in 1988, a decision that eventually led…
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Tom Regan Cited in Historic Court Ruling
In an historic ruling today, a judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a decision that all three intermediate appellate courts of New York that had ruled…
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The Year in Review: 2017
CAF’s year began sadly, with the death in February of Tom Regan, our co-founder, at the age of 78. The tributes were many and well-deserved. Among them, were Robert…
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