Video of Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2025 available on YouTube

Recordings of the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2025 (Dyreetikkonferansen 2025) are available on the YouTube channel of The Norwegian Veterinary Institute. The topic was "Når dyr dør. Perspektiver på livets slutt" (When animals die. Perspectives on the end of life). Note that this full-day event was all held in Norwegian.

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Panel discussion chaired at Animal Ethics Conference 2025 on animals´ death

Panel discussion chaired at Animal Ethics Conference 2025 on animals´ death

Today I have attended Norway´s Animal Ethics Conference (Dyreetikkonferansen) 2025, which had the theme "Når dyr dør. Perspektiver på livets slutt" (When animals die. Perspectives on the end of life) and was held at Litteraturhuset in Oslo. I chaired the panel discussion which took place at the end of the day. The panel included all the presenters, namely Espen Gamlund (UIB), Elisiv Tolo (Animalia), Helen Øvregaard (Vet-Talk), Steffen Tretvoll (Norsk Vegansamfunn), Jon M. Arnemo (Universitetet i Innlandet), Åsa Maria O. Espmark. More than 150 people were registered for the conference, which is organised by Norway´s Council for animal ethics.

Interview on animal awareness of death to appear on NRK P2's Verdibørsen

Yesterday I met with NRK P2s Aase Cathrine Myrtveit to be interviewed for this week's "Verdibørsen". The topic of the 15 minute long radio interview was animal awareness of death. I was interviewed in my capacity as Chair of Minding Animals Norway and Associate professor in philosophy at University of Stavanger.

The program will be sent this Saturday, and then again on Sunday.

Eco-existentialist talk on animal death scheduled for presentation September 5th in Oslo

My paper "Øko-eksistensialisme og dyrs dødelighet: Et forsvar for et mer inkluderende begrep om dødelighet" [Eco-existentialism and the mortality of animals: A defence of a more inclusive notion of mortality] (see full abstract in Norwegian) has been scheduled for presentation at the 4th research seminar of Minding Animals Norway, which will take place on the Blindern campus of University of Oslo on Friday September 5th. My presentation will take place at 10.00-10.45.

The theme of the research seminar, which also features an hour of open discussion, is "Dyrene og døden" (Animals and death).

Abstract on animal mortality for Minding Animals seminar

Today I have composed and submitted the abstract "Øko-eksistensialisme og dyrs dødelighet: Et forsvar for et mer inkluderende begrep om dødelighet" [Eco-existentialism and the mortality of animals: A defence of a more inclusive notion of mortality] for the 4th research seminar of Minding Animals Norway, which will take place on the Blindern campus of University of Oslo on Friday September 5th. The full abstract (in Norwegian) has been posted in my Norwegian language blog Utopisk Realisme.

Animals and death - 4th research seminar of Minding Animals Norway

The 4th annual research seminar of Minding Animals Norway will be arranged at Blindern, the main campus of the University of Oslo, on Friday September 5th (starting 10 am.). The call for papers (in Norwegian), with deadline for abstract submission August 25th, has been posted on the homepage of Minding Animals Norway and also in my Norwegian language blog Utopisk Realisme. This year's topic is "Dyrene og døden" [Animals and death].