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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 2: Steve Baker: After the Ark
Steve Baker is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central Lancashire in England. Since the 1990s, he’s worked as an artist and academic at the intersection of animals and or in art. His books, among which the latest is Artist/Animal, have been translated into several languages.
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Announcing the 2019 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship
CAF is collaborating with the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the NC State University Libraries to establish a fellowship in memory of Tom Regan to promote scholarly research in animal rights.
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 1: 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 Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, as well as The Pornography of Meat, and Neither Man Nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals.
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Spreading the Culture of Animals and Animal Culture
Patricia Denys and Mary Holmes talk about their new online magazine
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Grantee Isa Leshko has New Book
2016 grantee Isa Leshko is working on a book to be published this spring called Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries.
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Kim Stallwood and Radhika Subramaniam Have Chapters in New Book
Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives edited by André Krebber and Mieke Roscher is now out.
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Watch the 2018 Highlights from CAF and Our Grantees
CAF remains unique in championing scholarship and the arts to further understanding of, inspire advocacy for, and deepen our connection with, non-human animals.
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Second Issue of Animal Culture Magazine Out Now
Patricia Denys, a 2018 CAF grantee, along with Mary Holmes, and Karlie Kawa, have joined together to create a beautiful magazine for animals. Patricia is an artist and photographer and is one of the publishers, creative director, and a writer for this magazine, called Animal Culture.
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Tree Time: An Interview with Interdisciplinary Artist Lisa Hirmer
Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph, Ontario, whose practice spans visual media, social practice, performance, art-based research and occasionally writing. She is primarily concerned with collective relationships, in communities and public spaces as well as within more-than-human ecologies.
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Vegan Hip-Hop Album by CAF Grantee Mr. Hip Out Now
Culture and Animals Foundation 2018 grantee Donald Vincent aka Mr. Hip is a spoken word poet and hip-hop musician based in Los Angeles. He began recording his latest project, entitled “Vegan Paradise” this year, which was funded partially by his CAF grant.
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Grantee Michael Harren has New Book
2016 grantee Michael Harren has a book out called The Animal Book.
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Book Launch for the Bangla Edition of The Philosophy of Animal Rights
Pradhikar, an animal advocacy group based in the city of Sylhet in northeastern Bangladesh, held a book launch for the Bangla edition of Tom Regan’s pamphlet, The Philosophy of Animal Rights.
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Linda Brant’s Monument To Animals We Do Not Mourn to be Unveiled in the Spring
2015 and 2016 grantee, Linda Brant, has been working on her project, To Animals We Do Not Mourn.
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About the Tom Regan Lecture 2018
You can now watch the first a short video about the Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, with reflections from CAF board members, audience members, and the speaker, Carol J. Adams.
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2019 Grant Application Period Now Open
We are now accepting applications for our 2019 grants until January 31st.
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Read about the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
You can now read more about the firstAnnual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, given by Carol J. Adams on September 21st, 2018 at North Carolina State University on the website of the NCSU Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Adams is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books.
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Watch the First Annual Tom Regan Lecture
You can now watch the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, given by Carol J. Adams on September 21st, 2018. She is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books.
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Successful First Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
On September 21st, 2018, Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, gave the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at North Carolina State University.
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Translation of Tom Regan’s The Philosophy of Animal Rights
Rainer Ebert has overseen a translation of Tom Regan’s pamphlet, The Philosophy of Animal Rights, into Bangla.
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Syl Ko to Sign Books at the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
We are excited to announce that Syl Ko, co-author of Aphro-ism, will be at the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture. She will join Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, in the book-signing after the lecture. Carol wrote the foreward to Aphro-ism, and both often write about veganism and feminism.
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First Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture Happening this Month
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, will give the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at North Carolina State University. This event commemorates the work of CAF co-founder Tom Regan, who was on the philosophy faculty at NC State for over 34 years.
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CAF 2017 Grantees Showcase Their Latest Project
Martin Rowe, CAF co-vice president, writes:
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Looming clouds and threats of a thunderstorm didn’t deter the dozen or so enthusiasts who arrived at the south-east corner of Central Park in New York City on a Friday evening in August to experience the latest installment of the Synanthrope Preserve, a project of interdisciplinary artist Gal Nissim and experience designer Jessica Scott-Dutcher. -
Meet CAF’s New Social Media Intern
CAF is pleased to announce that we’ve hired Karen Bowman as our social media intern. Karen will be connecting on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with past, present, and future grantees and other creatives engaged in exploring the human–animal bond. Our aim is to provide a hub for artists to share their work with others, collaborate, and learn about other opportunities (such as scholarships, grants, competitions, and exhibitions) for their work.
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2017 CAF Grantee Gal Nissim Presents The Synanthrope Preserve
2017 CAF grantee Gal Nissim, along with Jessica Scott-Dutcher, invite visitors to discover the urban wildlife of Central Park in their project, The Synanthrope Preserve: The Washing Bear.
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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 against the Nonhuman Rights Project, had decided wrongly. The NhRP, led by Steven M. Wise, has for years argued that chimpanzees (and other Great Apes, as well as pachyderms and cetaceans), deserve legal standing as nonhuman persons.
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New Issue of Between the Species about Tom Regan
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Between the Species, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to the philosophical examination of the relationship between human beings and other animals, just released an issue on CAF co-founder Tom Regan. Board member Mylan Engel Jr. and CAF grantee Nathan Nobis both have pieces in the issue. You can read the issue here. -
Board Member Named NIU Presidential Teaching Professor
Congratulations to board member, Mylan Engel Jr., who was just honored as the 2018 Northern Illinois University (NIU) Presidential Teaching Professor. Mylan teaches in the department of philosophy.
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The First Ever Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture Happening This Fall
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, will give the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at North Carolina State University on Friday, September 21, 2018. This event commemorates the work of CAF co-founder Tom Regan, who was on the philosophy faculty at NC State for over 34 years. The event is jointly sponsored by the Culture & Animals Foundation and by the NC State Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Further details will be shared soon.
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Watch the Tom Regan Memorial Panel from MAC4
CAF board member Kim Stallwood organized and spoke on the Tom Regan Memorial Panel, which took place at the Minding Animals Conference (MAC4) in Mexico City in January 2018. The panel covered the life and work of Tom Regan. The panelists included Peter Singer, Lori Gruen, Dale Jamieson, J. Baird Callicott, Mylan Engel Jr., Margo DeMello, and Alejandro Herrera. You can watch it here. (Transcripts of the event will be posted in the next few weeks.)
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CAF Board Member and Grantee is Voted Wildlife Photographer of the Year
We’re very excited that multiple CAF grantee and board member Jo-Anne McArthur was voted Wildlife Photographer of the Year, People’s Choice Winner with her photograph of Pikin and Appolinaire. Pikin was going to be sold for bushmeat but was rescued by Ape Action Africa. She was being moved to a larger sanctuary and awoke from being sedated right before Jo-Anne took the photograph. You can learn more about the photo and see the runners-up here. The photograph will be displayed at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, until the end of May.
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Animal Welfare Materials being Digitized including Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive
The NCSU Libraries and the ASPCA have received a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for a three-year project “‘The Animal Turn’: Digitizing Animal Protection and Human-Animal Studies Collections.”
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Upcoming Minding Animals Conference in Mexico from January 17th-24th
The fourth Minding Animals Conference is happening this January in Ciudad de México from the 17th-24th.
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End of Year Newsletter
Check out our latest newsletter to hear about what CAF has been up to this year. And thank you to everyone who has supported us in this year of transition.
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Support Artists and Scholars Working for Animals this #GivingTuesday
For three decades, CAF has provided artists and scholars with grants to help them advocate for animals and deepen our understanding of them. Grantees have painted, sung, sculpted, photographed, and performed plays about animals; they’ve researched, studied, and demonstrated for them. Please consider donating to CAF this #GivingTuesday to help us support these unique voices and our unique mission of appealing to individual intellect, creativity, and compassion, and building greater respect for animals.
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Highlights from the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival
The first Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival took place on October 21–22, 2017 in New York City. The Culture & Animals Foundation joined with Compassion Arts to put on this amazing event. The video above is a collection of photos from that weekend.
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Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival a Success
The Culture & Animals Foundation joined with Compassion Arts for the first Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space in New York City on October 21–22, 2017. The Festival was preceded and accompanied by a pop-up art show entitled “Beasts of Burden,” curated by CAF grantee Jane O’Hara. Other CAF grantees who performed or presented at the Festival included: Ayten Alkan, Michael Harren, Jo-Anne McArthur, Ellie Sarty, Jasmin Singer, and Mariann Sullivan. CAF vice-presidents Martin Rowe and Mia MacDonald, and CAF grantee Marisa Miller Wolfson, were the em-cees. CAF co-founder and board member Nancy Regan was also in attendance. Cyrus Mejia, whose image was used for the program cover, is also a CAF grantee.
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One More Week Until the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival!
We are excited that there is one week to go until the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival that we are putting on with Compassion Arts. The festival is taking place in New York City on October 21 and 22.
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In Memory of Tom Regan by Ana Cristina Ramirez
Ana Cristina Ramirez, Minding Animals’ International‘s partner in organizing the fourth conference in Mexico, in January 2018, has published a reflection (in Spanish) on Tom Regan: In Memoriam Tom Regan.
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Join us at the Compassion Arts Festival
We are excited to announce the Festival that we are putting on in collaboration with Compassion Arts. Watch the video below of co-vice president Martin Rowe describing the Festival and visit compassionartsfestival.com for more details and to purchase tickets.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi and Tom Regan: Advocates for Animal Rights
Rainer Ebert wrote a piece about Mohandas Gandhi and Tom Regan. He wrote about Gandhi’s influence on Regan’s work advocating for animal rights. You can read more here.
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Tom Regan “In His Own Words” video
Robert Leonard made this video about Tom Regan that contains many of Tom’s words and writings. It’s a good way to either familiarize yourself with some of Tom’s work or to help you remember the scope of his work. You can watch it here.
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