Lectures of Interest on Monday & Tuesday, May 11 & 12

[Guest guest]

Sarah Johnson is leading a class on ethical issues regarding animals

this quarter at Stanford University, and there are two lectures next

week that should be particularly interesting.

 

On Monday May 11, Professor Paul Ehrlich (famous author of The

Population Bomb, and currently the president of the Center for

Conservation Biology at Stanford) will be speaking about the evolution

of human dominance over animals and the environment, and what we ought

to do now. This lecture will be in Building 110, room 111A, from

2:15-3:15 PM (possibly a bit longer).

 

On Tuesday May 12, from 3:15-4:45 PM, Professor Stephen Felt (Assistant

Professor of Comparative Medicine at the Stanford University Medical

Center) will be lecturing on pain in animals (which species can feel

pain, and clinical and behavioral signs of pain in different species).

This lecture might be of particular interest to those who are decided in

their thoughts about the ethics of eating pork, for example, but are

unsure about what to think of animals whose capacity to feel pain is

less obvious (silkworms, for example). This lecture will be in the

building named " Green Earth Sciences " , Room 134.

 

Feel free to come to either or both of these lectures, and invite your

friends as well!

 

Questions may be directed to Sarah at sarah09

 

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Links:

 

Wikipedia article on Professor Ehrlich:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich

 

Stanford's page on Professor Felt:

https://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/SWApp/lookup?search=Stephen%20Felt

 

Stanford maps:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/visitorinfo/plan/maps.html

 

Stanford parking:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/visitorinfo/plan/parking.html

 

-- Mike