Annette Lanjouw, Arcus Foundation Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Great Apes Program, was director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme for 15 years before joining Arcus. Prior to that, she served as scientific advisor to wildlife filmmaker Alan Root, as Central Africa program officer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and as project manager and field director for the Frankfurt Zoological Society's Chimpanzee Conservation Project in eastern DRC. She was also the international program officer for the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. A native of the Netherlands, Annette holds a BSc in zoology and psychology from Victoria University in New Zealand and doctorandus degree in behavioral ecology from the Rijks Universiteit in the Netherlands.
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The Personhood Beyond the Human conference was organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, Yale's Animal Ethics Group and Yale's Technology and Ethics Group.
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Abstract: The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimizes treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, The Politics of Species -- released this fall in the United States by Cambridge University Press -- identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals. Annette Lanjouw who co-edited the volume with Raymond Corbey, will share with the conference the questions, themes and possibilities that are central to this important book.
On December 7, 2013 Annette Lanjouw spoke on "The Politics of Species" at the Personhood Beyond the Human conference at Yale University.
Annette Lanjouw, Arcus Foundation Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Great Apes Program, was director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme for 15 years before joining Arcus. Prior to that, she served as scientific advisor to wildlife filmmaker Alan Root, as Central Africa program officer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and as project manager and field director for the Frankfurt Zoological Society's Chimpanzee Conservation Project in eastern DRC. She was also the international program officer for the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. A native of the Netherlands, Annette holds a BSc in zoology and psychology from Victoria University in New Zealand and doctorandus degree in behavioral ecology from the Rijks Universiteit in the Netherlands.
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The Personhood Beyond the Human conference was organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, Yale's Animal Ethics Group and Yale's Technology and Ethics Group.
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Abstract: The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimizes treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, The Politics of Species -- released this fall in the United States by Cambridge University Press -- identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals. Annette Lanjouw who co-edited the volume with Raymond Corbey, will share with the conference the questions, themes and possibilities that are central to this important book.
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