Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 04 April
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. To coincide with the publication of the latest Quarterly Essay, Us and Them, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, activists to abattoirs, wilderness to science labs, Krien takes a clear-eyed look at how we do – and should – treat animals.
Robyn Davidson is unable to chair this event due to illness; Siobhan O'Sullivan will be appearing in her place.
Featuring
Siobhan O'Sullivan
Dr. Siobhan O’Sullivan is a research fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She specialises in animal protection issues including the structure and functionality of animal welfare laws.
Dr. O’Sullivan has published widely on animal issues, including articles in Environmental Politics and Environmental Values.
She is a member of the Knowing Animals Past and Present research team at the University of Melbourne. The team conducts interdisciplinary research into animal issues and hosts a monthly reading group.
Animals, Equality and Democracy is Dr. O’Sullivan’s first book. It describes inconsistencies in animal welfare laws and explores the relationship between the community seeing animal suffering and opposing it. She argues that the way we construct animal welfare laws is not consistent with liberal democratic values.
Siobhan O’Sullivan is a member of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Anna Krien
Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye, and a novel Act of Grace. Anna’s writing has been published in ...