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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · 20d

¡Buenas noticias!

Nuestro libro Especismo y Lenguaje ya en Open Access.

Descárgalo gratis en la web de @plazayvaldes.bsky.social (menú: “Para descargar > Open Access”): www.plazayvaldes.es/libro/especi...

¡Si te parece importante, compártelo!

ESPECISMO Y LENGUAJE

www.plazayvaldes.es

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Jun 2

Compassionate Futures International Conference in Barcelona. See you all there!

UPF-Center for Animal Ethics @upf-cae.bsky.social · May 29

Two days left for the general registration for the Compassionate Futures International Conference!

🎫 This registration includes 100% vegan lunches and coffee breaks.

🗓️17-18-19, June
📍Barcelona

Compassionate Futures
Dismantling the Dynamics of Power
and Violence in Human-Animal Relationships
June 17–19, 2025
"TUESDAY 17 June - Auditorium
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9.00 – 10.15 Registration & Coffee
10.15 – 11.30 "Welcome & Opening Keynote (Kadri Aavi)
"
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 1: Human/Nonhuman Animal Relations in (post)Western & Fantastic Literatures
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 "Panel 2: Animal Ethics, Justice & Law"
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 Panel 3: Film & Literature Studies
17.45 – 19.30 Roundtable 1: Reflexiones desde el activismo antiespecista de base (in Spanish)
"WEDNESDAY 18 June – Auditorium & Sala Aranyó
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9.00 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 10.45 "Panel 4: Ethics, Intersectionality & Cities"
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 5: Challenging Animal Experimentation
12.30 – 13.30 "Keynote (Corey Wrenn)
"
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00 Panel 6: News Media Representation
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 Panel 7: Moral Dynamics & Communication practices
18.00 – 19.00 "Film introduction & Screening
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19.00 – 20.00 Roundtable 2: Screening “Sí als bous” & Roundtable with the director of the film
"THURSDAY 19 June - Auditorium
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9.15 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 10.30 "Panel 8: Lobbying & Compassion. Interest groups, Discourse and Nonhuman Animals (COMPASS)"
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 9: Animal Advocacy across Contexts
12.45 – 14.00 "Closing Keynote (Vasile Stănescu)
"

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UPF-Center for Animal Ethics @upf-cae.bsky.social · Apr 30

Catia Faria, member of the UPF-CAE board, has published the article "Creating Life, Creating Strife? Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Extinction, and Wild Animal Welfare" in the Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research.

A wolf
PICTURE: David Tostado on Unsplash

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · May 10

"Y, sin embargo, aquí, como en otras áreas donde los sectores progresistas esperaban cambios más prácticos, vemos a un hombre bien intencionado que a menudo dijo las cosas correctas, pero que no utilizó su posición para impulsar las reformas necesarias"

El Caballo de Nietzsche @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social · May 10

⛪ “Claramente, en la Biblia no hay lugar para un antropocentrismo despótico que no se preocupe por las demás criaturas”, decía el Papa Francisco en su encíclica Laudato Si'. Un artículo de @petersinger.info. Traducción @ccfaria.bsky.social @eldiario.es

Francisco, sobre los animales

Cuando el cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio fue elegido papa en 2013, muchas personas progresistas albergaron grandes expectativas. ¿Se permitiría a los sacerdotes casarse? ¿O, más radical aún, abriría q...

www.eldiario.es

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

Accidentally more to the point: www.kxan.com/news/nationa...

Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Apr 10

Doesn’t cover *everything* that’s wrong with de-extinction, but still worth a read. More on this soon.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

These fluffy white wolves explain everything wrong with bringing back extinct animals

Don’t buy the hype about “de-extinction.”

www.vox.com

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Apr 2

Manosphere pressures stem largely from intra-masculine competition—Adolescence misattributes them to female peers.

Sharp points on 'Adolescence' by @katemanne.bsky.social

Full article: katemanne.substack.com/p/adolescenc...

"Adolescence" Has a Missing Victim Problem

Netflix’s hit mini-series continues an important conversation about boys under the influence of misogyny—but erases their female victims

katemanne.substack.com

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Mar 27

Hoy, en @laraposapoblesec.bsky.social

@plazayvaldes.bsky.social

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Mar 24

Mañana! Bienvenides todes!

Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Mar 17

¡Próximamente un evento imperdible sobre Ética Animal en la UCM! 🐾✨

Contaremos con la participación de:
Julius Kapembwa (Univ. de Zambia)
Kristian Cantens (Univ. Texas State)

📅 Fecha: 25 de marzo
⏰ Hora: 13:00 - 15:00
📍 Lugar: Facultad de Filosofía, UCM

¡Entrada libre y abierta a todes!

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Mar 19

TODAY!!! Is Wild Animal Welfare Mostly Positive or Negative?
with Heather Browning and Oscar Horta

March 19, 2025 | 12:00pm-1:15pm ET

sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wild...

Events

Spring 2025

sites.google.com

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Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social · Mar 4

The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is thrilled to be hosting an online panel with Heather Browning and Oscar Horta on March 19 at 12pm ET! This event will settle once and for all the question whether wild animal welfare is net positive or negative. RSVP below :)

sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wild...

Events

Spring 2025

sites.google.com

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Catia Faria @ccfaria.bsky.social · Mar 17

¡Próximamente un evento imperdible sobre Ética Animal en la UCM! 🐾✨

Contaremos con la participación de:
Julius Kapembwa (Univ. de Zambia)
Kristian Cantens (Univ. Texas State)

📅 Fecha: 25 de marzo
⏰ Hora: 13:00 - 15:00
📍 Lugar: Facultad de Filosofía, UCM

¡Entrada libre y abierta a todes!

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