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The Animals and Society Institute and the Culture and Animals Foundation are pleased to announce that we will again collaborate to produce the 24th annual International Compassionate Living Festival.

Historian and author Hilda Kean and animal advocate Kim Stallwood will teach the course, Animal Rights: past and present, at Ruskin College, Oxford on March 16 - 20, 2009.

Dr Hilda Kean is a tutor in History, Humanities co-ordinator and acting dean at Ruskin College. She runs Ruskin's pioneering MA in Public History and organises public history conferences and the Ruskin public history discussion group. She researches and publishes in public and cultural history and the cultural position of animals. She is the author of Animal Rights. The Times Literary Supplement said Animal Rights is "Lively, impressively researched, and well-written . . . a book that is timely and valuable."

Kim Stallwood a veteran animal advocate who has held leadership positions for some of the world's foremost animal welfare organizations in the United Kingdom and United States (e.g., CIWF, BUAV, PETA). He is an independent author, scholar and advisor on animal welfare and related matters. He became a vegetarian in 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. He has been a vegan since 1976. He is European Director of the Animals and Society Institute.

Ruskin College is an independent college based in Oxford that specializes in providing educational opportunities for adults with few or no qualifications. Interested persons, including animal activists, students and scholars from a variety of backgrounds are welcomed at Ruskin. Click here to download the booking form which must be submitted to the college. Please direct all inquires about registration to the college (enquiries@ruskin.ac.uk) or call Beryl Stewart at [+44] (0)1865 517807.

For information about the course, please contact Hilda Kean or Kim Stallwood.

Pre-conference lecture for the Minding Animals conference in Australia July 2009. The speakers include Richard D. Ryder, Hilda Kean, Erica Fudge, Robert Garner, Rod Bennison, Andrea Gavinelli, Donald Broom and myself.

An exhibition of new paintings by Sue Coe about elephants. Sue Coe and Kim Stallwood are collaborating on a book about Topsy, the elephant electrocuted by Edison in 1903. They will speak at the opening on Tuesday, October 14.

Please join Kim Stallwood in North Carolina on October 3-5,2008, for the 23rd annual International Compassionate Living Festival. Founded in 1985 by Tom and Nancy Regan of the Culture and Animals Foundation, the ICLF brings together renowned scholars, authors, activists and artists who work for nonviolence social change on behalf of animals worldwide. These individuals represent a wide range of backgrounds, interests, experiences and perspectives.

This event is meant to provide novice and veteran animal advocates with information, inspiration and a means for respectful discussion of important, timely issues of many kinds. It complements rather than duplicates other animal rights conferences, and offers a unique forum for “thinking activists” and “activist thinkers.”

The Twenty-second Annual International Compassionate Living Festival

The Lewis & Clark Student Animal Legal Defence Fund and National Center for Animal Law are to be commended for organzing their 15th annual conference!

The Twenty-first Annual International Compassionate Living Festival

This is the leading national conference for animal advocates. The Animals and Society Institute is a sponsor. I will be speaking.

I will discuss The Animals' Platform, a national plan of action to advance animal protection as a public policy issue.

Additional speakers include Eric Markus, author of "Meat Market," and Karen Iacobbo and Michael Iacobbo, authors of "Vegetarian America: A History."