Study visit at CHS: Animal Ethics and Law

• Full Title: Study visit at CHS Greece of the Interinstitutional MA Program "Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law"
• Dates: June 13-14, 2025 
• Location: CHS Greece, Nafplio
• Organized by: MA Program "Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law" of the Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, & the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, CHS Greece
• Open to: Students of the MA on Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law
• Language: Greek & English
• Invited speakers: Pablo Perez Castello (Research Fellow, Animal Law & Policy Program, Harvard Law School, Associate Editor of the section Political Animals in the journal Society and Animals), Macarena Montes Franceschini (Rights of Nature Fellow at the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School), George Papadimitriou (Lawyer, Environmental Policy Officer at the Hellenic Ornithological Society, Graduate of the Interinstitutional MA Program "Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law")
• Contact person for CHS Greece: Evan Katsarelis

Overview

CHS Greece continues to support Greek Universities by hosting their programs at the Center's facilities in Nafplio, and by creating bridges of communication between them and colleagues from Harvard, while contributing to their administrative, logistical, and other needs.

Following the successful synergy initiated in 2023 and further expanded in 2024, the interinstitutional MA program "Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law" will once again return to CHS Greece in 2025. Building on last year's expanded collaboration between CHS Greece, NKUA's Animal Ethics Program, and the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, the program is set to welcome over 40 students for an intensive academic visit in Nafplio. Apart from sessions that students will have with faculty from NKUA and Harvard, they will also have the opportunity to learn about the Center's mission, history, and activities.

Faculty members and administrators, Pablo Perez Castello, Macarena Montes Franceschini, and George Papapadimitriou, will contribute with their presentations during this study weekend. Pablo Perez Castello will speak on "Why Seeing Is Not Believing and Why Believing Is Seeing." Macarena Montes Franceschini will speak on "Animal Personhood: The Quest for Recognition." George Papadimitriou will give a talk on questions and dilemmas about legal hunting and poaching, entitled "Νόμιμο Κυνήγι και Λαθροθηρία: μία Σύνθετη Ανάλυση." Learn more about the MA Program "Animal Welfare, Ethics and the Law" on its website.

Download the full program in PDF below (in Greek).