Academic readings 2024; most read authors

In 2024 I have logged that I have read some 6172,5 pages of academic texts. This is quite a bit more than the 4546 pages I logged in 2023, and a good step towards earlier highs. Apart from students I supervise at ph.d., MA or BA level, the authors I read the most of included Jakob von Uexkülll, Jason Hickel, Dag Hessen, Philip Goff, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen.

Alice Crary´s Steffens lecture now online

A recording of Alice Crary´s Henrik Steffens lecture 2024, "All Justice is Animal Justice", held at University of Stavanger November 21st, is now available for streaming at Viten-TV.

Alice Crary introduced at the occasion of the Steffens lecture 2024 at UIS; dinner

Yesterday evening I introduced Alice Crary when she gave the Steffens lecture 2024 at University of Stavanger, "All justice is animal justice". The event was well attended, with some 2-300 people attending in person. The lecture was also recorded and will later be made available online. 

Photo credit: University of Stavanger

After the lecture I joined Alice and some others, including University of Stavanger rector Klaus Mohn, for dinner at Bellies, a top-notch local vegan restaurant.

Interviewed in UIS news story about Alice Crary Steffens lecture 2024

I am interviewed in the University of Stavanger news story "Henrik Steffens-forelesningen 2024: Alice Crary om dyrs rettigheter og menneskets verdighet", which is composed by Karen Anne Okstad and also released as a press release.

Partaking in 4 events in Stavanger and Oslo next week

I have been scheduled to take place in three more events next week, in addition to Dyreetikkonferansen 2024 (Wednesday November 20, Oslo):

Langsikt-seminar: Hvordan få mest mulig velferd for pengene, med Morten Tønnessen (Oslo, Thursday November 21, 2024) - takes place at 12.00-13.30 at Mech, Nationaltheatret

Academic seminar: Ethics in a time of animal crisis (University of Stavanger, Friday November 22, 2024) - takes place at 10.00-13.00 at University of Stavanger  

Steffens-forelesningen 2024, by Alice Crary: "All justice is animal justice" (University of Stavanger, Thursday November 21, 2024) - takes place at University of Stavanger at 18.00-20.00; I have been asked to introduce her

Comments on Alice Crary´s "Inside ethics" given at book seminar

Today I offered "Comments on the book with an eye to animal ethics and Human-Animal Studies" - the book being Alice Crary´s Inside ethics: On the demands of moral thought, released this Spring, as part of a 4 hour seminar devoted to the book held at University of Stavanger today. Cato Wittusen and myself organized the seminar, which was attended by some 10 people.

Due to chicken pox in the family I attended from home, via Skype.

Program for seminar on Alice Crary´s Inside Ethics

On April 25th, Cato Wittusen and I organise a seminar at University of Stavanger, in the name of the research area (programområde) "Conditions of normativity", at the occasion of the publication of Alice Crary´s book Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought (Harvard University Press, 2016).

Program: 

12.00-12.15 Welcome - Cato Wittusen, Universitetet i Stavanger

12.15-12.30  ”On Human-Animal Studies/Anthrozoology” - Kristin Armstrong Oma, Universitetet i Stavanger/AMS

12.30-13.30 ”Inside Ethics - On the Demands of Moral Thought” - Alice Crary,  The New School for Social Research, New York

13.30-14.00 Break

14.00-14.45 ”Comments on chapter 3, ’More on Animal Minds: Dogs and Concepts’" - Kevin M. Cahill, Universitetet i Bergen

14.45-15.30 "Comments on the book with an eye to animal ethics and Human-Animal Studies" - Morten Tønnessen, Universitetet i Stavanger

15.30-16.00 Discussion