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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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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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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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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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Kim Stallwood to Give the First 2022 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
On July 20, CAF Board member Kim Stallwood will present the first 2022 Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture—entitled The Martin Bicentenary: An Opportunity to Look Back and Imagine the…
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Sue Coe Is Awarded the 2022 Nancy Regan Arts Prize
The Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) is delighted to announce that artist and activist Sue Coe has been awarded the 2022 Nancy Regan Arts Prize for her…
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A Significant Bequest to the Tom Regan Archive
The historian Bernard Unti, until 2021 Senior Policy Advisor and Special Assistant to the President & CEO of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS),…
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A New President and Vice-President & Treasurer at CAF
The Culture & Animals Foundation is delighted to announce the election of Jill Howard Church (left) as CAF’s new President and Karen Regan as Vice-President & Treasurer.
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CAF Announces a New Executive Director
The board of the Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Rowe as its Executive Director. The creation of this position reflects the…
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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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First Annual Nancy Regan Arts Prize Winner
The Board of the Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) is delighted to announce that Hong Kong–based graphic artist Joan Chan Wing Yan has been awarded the first annual…
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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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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Carol J. Adams: Following the Thread
Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books on the intersections between meat eating and misogyny, including the pioneering and deeply influential The Sexual Politics of Meat: A…
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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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