19:00 - 21:00
Uni Witzenhausen
It's about the sausage. Gross excesses of some modern animal husbandry forms can not only calls for a reform of livestock, according to. They give rise, to investigate the ambivalent treatment of animals more closely and fundamentally to question.
What makes our relationship is marked for animals? we really than seeing animals, what they are or is our view through culture and tradition clouded? Why is the almost limitless violence against “livestock” socially and politically tolerated but over “pets” outlawed? If the handling of animals at all effectively regulated and controlled?
Human-animal relationships are characterized by seemingly intractable contradictions and problems in practice. For many, these ratios seem rigid and natural to be. In reality, they are historically grown and how our morals inferior exactly constant change. Accordingly, the modern research on animals and their role can not be limited to the study of their usefulness or their taxonomic classification for humans. To really understand it and change, has the human-animal relationship as culturally grown phenomenon together its social, historical and political dimensions are seen.
This series of lectures should an honest, offer unbiased view of the largest construction sites in the human-animal relationships. It provides explanations for our previous treatment of animals and shows perspectives for a different approach. Let yourself be upset and surprised by refreshing ideas from the animal ethics and human Animal Studies. the events are seasoned with insights from different disciplines, like psychology, history, sociology and philosophy.
PLACE: Uni Witzenhausen (small auditorium, Nordbahnhofstraße 1a)