Meeting the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

Scientific understanding of animal minds is expanding rapidly — but how humans relate to other animals remains shaped by deep historical assumptions and social structures. Rethinking these relationships requires not only new science, but also new ways of imagining coexistence with animals, especially wild animals, in a more-than-human world. Animals, Ethics, and JusticeBeyond the Human: Sharing the Planet with Nonhuman AnimalsSession: Meeting the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human WorldSpeaker: Brandon Keim About the SeriesAnimals, Ethics, and Justice: Beyond the Human is a webinar series organized and hosted by Dr. Kathrin Herrmann that explores what it means to live responsibly with other animals on a shared planet through the lens of animal ethics, multispecies justice, and planetary health. WebinarWe are living through a period of rapidly expanding scientific insight into the minds and lives of other animals. Increasingly, animals are recognized not as unthinking beings driven purely by instinct, but as complex individuals with intelligence, emotions, social relationships, and agency. Yet this growing scientific recognition is not simply a story of progress. In this talk, Brandon Keim explores recent developments in the science of animal intelligence alongside the longer history of how Western societies have understood — and often misunderstood — nonhuman life. The webinar will also examine new ways of thinking about our relationships with animals, especially wild animals, who have often been overlooked in ethical discourse and treated primarily as representatives of species rather than as fellow persons inhabiting a shared world. More information and free registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../meeting-the-neighbors...