{"id":1050,"date":"2022-09-23T22:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/?page_id=1050"},"modified":"2024-11-28T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:19:30","slug":"aac2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>MARK YOUR CALENDAR<\/strong>:\u00a0 <strong>The next edition of the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference will take place July 2-5, 2025, at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uoecollection.com\/conferences-events\/venue-hubs\/pollock-estate\/john-mcintyre-conference-centre\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">John McIntyre Conference Centre<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Visit the new Conference website for all information and call for submissions: <strong><span style=\"color: #339966\"><a style=\"color: #339966\" href=\"https:\/\/phair2025.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/phair2025.co.uk\/\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2023 Animal Advocacy Conference took place June 22-24, 2023, in <\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Keynes College at the University of Kent<\/span>, Canterbury, UK<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Animal Advocacy Conference brings together researchers from different fields in the social and behavioural sciences, and animal activists and advocates from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Learn about the latest ideas, findings and campaigns in the following domains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The psychological, social, and societal factors shaping how we perceive and think about animals, human-animal relations, and animal welfare and rights<\/li>\n<li>The impact of advocacy and activism strategies related to animal rights, veganism, meat reduction and reduction of other animal products (e.g., dairy, eggs)<\/li>\n<li>The social and behavioural science of animal cruelty, meat consumption (and other animal-product consumption), vegetarianism\/veganism, and speciesism<\/li>\n<li>The connections and intersections between human-animal relations and human intergroup relations as well as between animal ethics and other social justice domains including environmentalism, feminism, and anti-racism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This conference uniquely bridges the gap between academic researchers and activists\/professionals in the field of vegan and animal rights advocacy. The conference creates a stimulating environment where academics and activists\/advocates exchange relevant knowledge, engage in lively debates, share their ideas, and can start collaborations.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Format<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The conference program includes some of the world\u2019s leading scholars and advocates in the field with exciting public keynote presentations, several symposia and sessions with research talks, a poster session, panel discussions and workshops.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">Sponsors<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mercyforanimals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1176 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/files\/2022\/12\/MercyforAnimals_logo-1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/proveg.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1270\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/files\/2023\/04\/ProVeg_Logo-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkpriorities.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1180 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/files\/2022\/12\/rethink.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkpriorities.org\/\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bryantresearch.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1225 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/files\/2022\/12\/Bryant-research-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"89\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Questions about sponsoring should be directed to the Conference Chair, Kristof Dhont: K.Dhont@Kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARK YOUR CALENDAR:\u00a0 The next edition of the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference will take place July 2-5, 2025, at the&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53383,"featured_media":1139,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/animaladvocacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}