20 February 2026, 9:30am - 5:30pm

Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1

Anyone interested in joining without giving a presentation is warmly welcome to do so; in that case, registration is kindly requested here by 15 February 2026.

This workshop examines how practices of care might help address the persistent oppression of animals in contemporary societies. Care is often proposed as a way to illuminate vulnerability and shape relationships, yet its capacity to address animal oppression - both in everyday life and within political structures - remains insufficiently understood.

The workshop therefore asks what care can contribute to interspecies justice. Possible questions include, but are not limited to:

• How might caring attitudes draw attention to the lived experience of animals?
• How can care practices shift norms that have shaped human–animal relations?
• Can care serve as a form of repair for interspecies injustice?
• How might care inform political transformation and decision-making processes?

Programme

09:45–10:00
Registration & Welcome

10:00–11:00
Opening Talk: Alfonso Donoso, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
"Confronting Interspecies Oppression: Care, Solidarity, and Their Limits"
• 30-minute presentation
• 30-minute discussion (pre-read format)

11:00–11:15
Coffee Break

Session I: Care & Responsibility
11:15–11:45
Will Salkeld, The Australian National University
"Caring for Introduced Species"

11:45–12:15
Tobias Blase, TU Dortmund
"Avoidable Structural Injustice and City Pigeons: Why Should We Care?
Towards an Interspecies Role-Ideal Model of Political Responsibility"

12:15–12:45
Julita Skotarska, Charles University
"Presentation of the Philosophy in the Wild – Finding Hope in Mixed Communities Public Philosophy Project"

12:45–13:45 Lunch Break (on-site)

Session II: Translation & Cohabitation
13:45–14:15
Alexander Damianos, Kent Law School
"Ecological Translation"

14:15–14:45
Lisa Hall, Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice
"Towards an Enacted Ethic of Ecosociality: Enactive Ethics, Phenomenology, and Multispecies Cohabitation"

14:45–15:00 Coffee Break

Session III: Care & Profession
15:00–15:30
Rebecca Swan, University of Brighton
Title: TBD (Topic: Care at the Veterinary Encounter)
15:30–16:00
Nina Collin, Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice
"If Not You, Who? The (Un)Caring Animal Ethics Teacher"
16:00–16:15
Joint Reflection on Workshop Outcomes

After the Workshop
Philosophy in the Wild outdoor activity to see nutrias at the Vltava River
(approx. 90 minutes; optional)
From ~18:30: Dinner (self-paid)
Location TBD

Anyone interested in joining without giving a presentation is warmly welcome to do so; in that case, registration is kindly requested here by 15 February 2026.

The workshop forms part of a two-day program built around a visit from Alfonso Donoso (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) to Prague. Alfonso will give a public lecture on 19 February, to which all workshop participants are warmly invited, and he will also give a talk at the workshop.