EurSafe 2016, Porto Portugal - Food Futures: Ethics, Science and Culture

PROGRAMME
Parallel Sessions I

 

THURSDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2016

     
11:00 – 12:30   PARALLEL SESSIONS I
     
A | Animal Ethics | MAIN AUDITORIUM
Chair: Herwig Grimm
     
11:00-11:25   Bernard E. Rollin, ‘gestalt shift’ and animal ethics
    J.L. Harfeld, Center for Applied Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark
     
11:30-11:55   How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments?
    K.K. Jensen, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
     
12:00-12:25   What is the problem of replaceability?
    R. Miguel, LanCog, Centro de Filosofia, Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
     
B | Food waste | AUDITORIUM 2
Chair: Nicolas Hurst
     
11:00-11:25   Combating food waste in Portugal: a case study of a civil society initiative
    D. Lorena, DARiACORDAR – Associação para a Recuperação do Desperdício, Portugal
     
11:30-11:55   Feeding cities sustainably: the contribution of a ‘zero-foodwastecity’ to sustainable development goal 2, ‘zero hunger’
    L. Bellina, Leuphana University, Germany
     
12:00-12:25   Policy design for food waste reduction: conflicting political and economic interests
    V. Sodano, Department of Agriculture, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
     
C | Animal perspectives | MEETING ROOM 2
Chair: Mickey Gjerris
     
11:00-11:25   Animal subjectivity: evolving ethics in animal studies
    F. de Giorgio, Learning Animals, Institute for Animal Ethics, Animals Studies and Zooanthropology, the Netherlands
     
11:30-11:55

  A philosophical and technical critique of zooanthropology as a moral and practical paradigm
    S. Aerts, Odisee University College, Ethology and Animal Welfare, Belgium
     
12:00-12:25   The kind of perception that humans and animals share
    U. Müller, International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), Department Ethics and Education, Germany
     
D | Food and literature | ROOM 201
Chair: Fátima Vieira
     
11:00-11:25   ‘Something a little bit ‘tasty’’ – George Orwell, food, politics, and empathy
    S. de Melo Araújo, CETAPS/CITCEM/ILC-ML/IF, FLUP/ESE-IPP, Portugal
     
11:30-11:55   The world is out of joint: extreme weather and food crises in early modern poetry
    S. Meisch, International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tuebingen, Germany
     
12:00-12:25   Soil as sacred religion: the spiritual dimensions of sustainable agriculture
    G. van Wieren, Michigan State University, Department of Religious Studies, USA
     
E | Veterinary Ethics | ROOM 203
Chair: Rui Nunes
     
11:00-11:25   Role of moral values in the trade-off between animal welfare and food safety risks in broiler husbandry
    M. van Asselt, CAH Vilentum, University of Applied Sciences, Department of Applied Research, the Netherlands
     
11:30-11:55   Justifying veterinary interventions: the normativity of health concepts
    M. Huth, Messerli Research Institute, Unit Ethics and Human-Animal-Studies, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna/University of Vienna/Meduni Vienna, Austria
     
     

 

 

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