The SSEA is pleased to present a talk by Jasmine Gunkel, May 27, from noon to 1 PM EDT: "Intimacy, Vulnerability, and Our Relationships with Our Companion Animals". All talks are free and are conducted over zoom. For more info, use the zoom link on our events page: www.ethicsandanimals.org/events

My blog post about how disability affects well-being is now out at the APA Blog. blog.apaonline.org/2025/09/19/h...

The SSEA is excited to announce the first of our Fall 2025 Online Colloquium series. Matthew Perry (University of British Columbia), October 2, Noon Eastern: "The Desubjectification of Animals". For more information on how to attend, please visit our website, www.ethicandsanimals.org

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (SSEA) is hosting a mini-conference in Boulder, CO, on Weds., August 6. (This is the day before the RoME conference.) All are welcome! See www.ethicsandanimals.org for more info and for updates.

When Jay Odenbaugh, Yasha Rohwer, and I wrote our piece on owls, one of our main takeaways was that the Endangered Species Act is in need of supplementation. This excellent new piece by Emma Marris examines the case for that, with interviews with Jay and others. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The philosophy website Daily Nous just published (dailynous.com/2025/06/02/p...) several short pieces, including one I wrote, discussing the science and ethics of de-extinction efforts. My own piece is on the effects of de-extinction efforts on individual animal welfare.

I've been posting photos on Instagram, feel free to follow me there. www.instagram.com/av.hiller/?h...

Dayton Martindale, University of Colorado Boulder, is speaking this Thursday, April 10, at noon EDT: "Liberty for Animals: On Respect for Nonhuman Agency" The talk is online and free to all. Please see the SSEA website (www.ethicsandanimals.org/events) for more details.

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals is excited to announce a mini-conference, to be held on August 6, immediately prior to the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) at UC Boulder. Abstract submissions are due April 25. See www.ethicsandanimals.org/mini-confere... for more information.

I am excited to announce that Lucia Schwarz (Tulane) is speaking on Wednesday, March 5, 11 AM EST: "Voting with Your Dollars – a Binomial Model of Vegan Consumer Choice" All SSEA talks are free and are conducted over zoom. To attend, use this link: pdx.zoom.us/j/86949698825

Does anyone know what's going on with the Central APA? It is supposed to start in less than a month and from what I can see there is no program posted yet. www.apaonline.org/mpage/2025ce...

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals is hosting a talk by Harry Lloyd (Yale), this Thursday 1/9 at noon EST, titled "Animals, Just Distribution, and Cost Effectiveness". The talk is online and free to all. For more information about how to attend, please see the SSEA website. Thanks!

I’m on TV talking northern spotted owls. #KPTV www.kptv.com/2024/11/26/c...

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals is pleased to present a talk by Mattia Cecchinato (Oxford), "No Consciousness, No Welfare" on December 4 at 11AM Eastern (US) | 4PM GMT. The talk is online and free to all. To attend, please see our Events page at www.ethicsandanimals.org/upcoming

I will be speaking at this online mini-conference tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST/8:00 AM PST. Attendance is free! I will be talking about our climate responsibilities and about how much garam masala to put into your lentils (among other things). See info in link. philevents.org/event/show/1...