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Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen.s University

Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen.s University - The William H. Timbers '37 Lecture: Animals and the Frontiers of Citizenship

2/5/2013
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Rockefeller 3
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars
Citizenship has been at the core of struggles by historically excluded groups for respect and inclusion. Can citizenship be extended even further to animals? Prof. Kymlicka will address three challenges: 1. Why does justice require the extension of citizenship to animals, above and beyond compassionate care, stewardship, or universal basic rights? 2. Are animals capable of enacting citizenship? Are animals the kinds of beings with whom we can establish fair terms of cooperative citizenship? 3. Would extending citizenship to "unruly beasts" erode the highest forms of human flourishing and justice embodied in the idea of citizenship?

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His work, translated into 34 languages, has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. From 2004-2006, he was the President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). His most recent book, co-authored with Sue Donaldson, is Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011).
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