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ICAS Africa Conference 2014: Animal Liberation in Africa

20/09/14 - 21/09/14

UCT Upper Campus

The second Institute for Critical Animal Studies Conference in Africa will be held on the 20th and 21st of September at UCT in Cape Town. Registration from 08.45, starting 09.10

The broad aim of this conference is to bring together academics, activists and anyone else wishing to know more about Critical Animal Studies. Specifically, we are interested in exploring the tension – and providing a meaningful encounter between – animal rights/animal liberation and the broader African and South African context within which it is situated. An important question the conference aims to engage is whether, in the face of the endemic violence and stark inequalities that define South Africa in 2014, there is space for animal rights/animal liberation activism: how can we create an inclusionary space for AR/AL that accounts for broader social struggles?

The conference will take the form of presentations of research, special lectures and special interest presentations with discussion groups.

SCHEDULE:

SATURDAY

8:45 registration, tea and coffee

9:10: Colleen Mollentze - Welcome 

9:25 Les Mitchell - Using Critical Realism to Strategise Liberation

10:10 Aragorn Eloff - Mapping the Terrain

10:55 Robert Cairns - What is Human Privilege?

11:30 Q&A

11:45 Rohan Millson - Plant Eating – A Grand Unifying Theory

12:10 Les Mitchell - The Danger of Drawing Lines

12:55: Q&A

1:10 Lunch

2:00 Chris Mercer - The Hunting Industry: A Threat to our National Interests

2:45 Renelle Terblanche - Good fences make good neighbours

3:10 Arthur Van Coller - Gender Anchors, Meat and the Predicament of the ‘Real Man’ 

3:35 Q&A

4:00 Rohan Millson - Believing Absurdities: A critique of low-carb and paleo diets

SATURDAY EVENING

7:00 Vegan dinner at Deer Park Cafe, Vredehoek. If you haven't done so already, please let us know if you'd like to attend.

SUNDAY

9:00 Tea and coffee

9:15 Joanna Evans - Animals in 'The Last Human Venue". 

9:40 Nicolene C Swanepoel - Spirit Guardians: The representation of animals in ceramic art

10:15 Sarah Smith - The Art of Banksy and the Use of Animals in Art

10:35 Q&A

10:50 Tea and coffee

11:00 Toni Brockhoven - Vivisection and Animals in Scientific Research 

11:25 Davey Du Plessis - Changing Mentality or Changing Systems 

12:10 Q&A

Vegan Chocolate Mousse

This is one of my favourite vegan desserts to make, probably just because it's super easy.

Enough for 4 of these.

Modified recipe from Nom Yourself.

2 avocados

1/2 cup of cocoa powder

1/3 cup soy milk (Woolworths or Alpro work best for me)

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1/4 cup maple syrup

dash of cinnamon

pinch of salt

Rad interview with Andy Hurley on nomyourself.com.

My favourite spot to eat in Cape Town! Run by rad people with an ethical stance included in their food based veganism.

Plant: Pure Performance Fuel

Plant was established in 2013 to promote plant-based food choices and to provide a space in Cape Town where vegans and people with food allergies can find amazing food without sacrificing taste.

Our objective is to supply clean, healthy nutrition optimized for today’s fast paced life style.  We pride ourselves on exemplary service and customer satisfaction is our primary objective.

Education about the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle is a part of ongoing commitment to make this world a little better, a little kinder.  A percentage of our profits is donated to human-based or animal-based charities.