Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka in Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy

The Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series is back with another exciting programme of distinguished speakers.

Join us for our first event in this season's programme, organised by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.

Sue Donaldson (Philosophy Research Associate at Queen's University at Kingston) and Will Kymlicka (Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston) will deliver a talk on their new book Animals and the Right to Politics on Tuesday, 27th January, 5-6.30pm (UK time) on Zoom.

Please note that the link to connect to this Zoom event will be sent 2 hours - 30 minutes before the start of the event.

This event is open to all and a recording will be made available on our website afterwards.

About Sue Donaldson: Sue Donaldson followed an unconventional path as teacher, writer and advocate before finding a home in political philosophy. Her research, situated in the ‘political turn’ in animal rights theory, explores the implications of recognizing animals as members of social, cultural, and political communities. What would it mean to live with other animals in relationships of mutual respect and flourishing instead of tyranny and exploitation? Sue’s work centres animals’ rights to collective self-determination, and to co-authorship of their relationships with humans through practices of citizenship, denizenship and treaty diplomacy. This work draws insights from citizenship theory, feminist and decolonial political theory, disability theory, children's rights theory, democratic theory, ethology, and ecological ethics; as well as practical "experiments in living" such as animal sanctuaries and intentional communities. Sue is the co-author (with Will Kymlicka) of Animals and the Right to Politics (Oxford UP 2025) and Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Oxford UP 2011). She has published more than 40 academic articles, as well as contributing dozens of essays, columns and interviews on animal-related topics for popular media. Sue is co-convenor of the Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics research group at Queen’s. APPLE sponsors animal studies talks, workshops, reading groups, public outreach, and the ‘Animal Turn’ podcast.

About Will Kymlicka: Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, where he has taught since 1998. He has published eight books and over 200 articles, which have been translated into 32 languages, and has received several awards. His books include Contemporary Political Philosophy(1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007), which was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy’s 2007 Book Award, and most recently Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011), co-authored with Sue Donaldson.

For more information, see https://animalrightslaw.org/talkinganimals