We kindly invite you to a conference, called Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI. The conference will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 12 to 14 October 2026 and will be hosted by the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics–Prague (CETE-P). The full program will be published soon here. 

Keynote speakers for the conference:

Maneesha Deckha (University of Victoria, Canada)
"From Reason to Relation: The Legal Promise of a Caring Family Framing for Animals"

Christine Hentschel (University of Hamburg, Germany)
"Caring for the 'not yet' after the 'too late'"

Patrick Butlin (Eleos AI, UK)
Caring for Claude: LLM Personas as Potential Moral Patients

Registration

Registration is required for conference participants who wish to use the catering provided during the event.
Those who would only like to attend the talks and will not use the conference catering are welcome to join us without registering or paying a fee. Please select the registration category that applies to you:

Standard early-bird registration: €150
Deadline: 30 August 2026
https://eshopflu.eis.cas.cz/kopla/publics/kopla/payment/126545

Student early-bird registration: €75
Deadline: 30 August 2026
https://eshopflu.eis.cas.cz/kopla/publics/kopla/payment/126549

Standard regular registration: €180
Deadline: 1 October 2026
https://eshopflu.eis.cas.cz/kopla/publics/kopla/payment/126673

Student regular registration: €90
Deadline: 1 October 2026
https://eshopflu.eis.cas.cz/kopla/publics/kopla/payment/126571

Please address any questions to caringconferenceprague@gmail.com.

Organising team: Friderike Spang (CETE-P), John Dorsch (CETE-P)