Between May 15-16, at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, an international and interdisciplinary research project named “Contested Moral Framings: Human and Animal Life”, funded by AKTION, hosted a workshop titled “Toward an Understanding of Framing in Animal Ethics.” The project investigates the framings of animals—how animal ethics texts themselves shape or attempt to shape our perceptions of animals, and what kinds of conceptual or narrative framings are employed, albeit only implicitly, in such texts. This was the second workshop organized by this team; a third will take place in Pardubice in October 2025.
You can learn more about this event here: https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/post/what-or-who-is-an-animal-asking-an-old-question-in-a-new-way