What is the meaning of care in more-than-human worlds? How should we care for non-humans? How do non-humans care for each other and how do they care for humans? These questions stand at the heart of the conference Caring for Non-Humans, hosted by the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P).

Care has long been an important concept in moral and political philosophy and has shaped debates in animal ethics, environmental thought, and science and technology studies. Yet discussions of care in relation to animals, ecosystems, and artificial intelligence tend to remain fragmented across disciplines. At the same time, growing ecological pressures, changing human–animal relations, and rapid technological development raise new practical and normative questions about how care should be understood and organized in increasingly entangled human, environmental, and technological contexts. This conference aims to provide a forum for addressing these questions in a systematic and interdisciplinary way. Concretely, the conference will examine what it means to think and practice care in relation to animals, the environment, and artificial intelligence. We will explore how caring relations are conceptualized and enacted across these domains, and how limited care resources might be allocated among diverse beings and systems.

•• Format & Keynotes

3-day conference
Maneesha Deckha
(University of Victoria, Canada)
Christine Hentschel
(University of Hamburg, Germany)
Patrick Butlin
(Eleos AI, UK)

•• When & Where

12 – 14 October 2026
Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Prague 1, Czech Republic, Hall 206

•• Organizing institutions

Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague (CETE-P),
Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences

•• Registration

Registration is required for conference participants who wish to use the catering provided during the event.
Please select the registration category that applies to you:

Standard regular registration: €180
Deadline: 1 October 2026

Standard Registration here

Student regular registration: €90
Deadline: 1 October 2026

Student Registration here

Those who would only like to attend the talks and will not use the conference catering are welcome to join us without paying a fee. Registration is also required, please use a registration form here.

•• Organizers and contact

Organisers and contact
Friderike Spang (CETE-P), John Dorsch (CETE-P)
caringconferenceprague@gmail.com