Call for Papers! More-Than-Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Earthly Flourishing Conference!

Call for Papers! More-Than-Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Earthly Flourishing Conference!

Join us for the conference More-Than-Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Earthly Flourishing, organized by the More Than Human Rights (MOTH) Project at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. The conference will be held on March 11th and 12th, 2025 at NYU Law in New York City.

Debates and initiatives on the rights of the more-than-human world are here to stay. Recent developments in the natural sciences, moral philosophy, and politics have fundamentally questioned the categorical distinction between human and non-human forms of life that is at the core of modern law and human rights thought and practice. However, legal thought and practice, including human rights, remain largely anthropocentric.

The conference will be organized around five main thematic areas:

1. More-than-human rights in theory: conceptual approaches to the more-than-human world, including philosophical frameworks, Indigenous thought, and spiritual approaches that emphasize ecological and holistic thinking.
2. More-than-human rights in practice: cases, campaigns, and sociolegal mobilizations for the recognition of the rights and interests of the more-than-human world.
3. MOTH rights innovations: social, legal, political, and technological innovations for engagement with the more-than-human world.
4. MOTH in the natural sciences: advances in botany, mycology, ethology, physics, and other fields that drive home the entanglement of the human and the more-than-human worlds.
5. Storytelling in the more-than-human rights field: literary journalism, fiction, and other narratives that engage with the well-being and rights of the more-than-human world.

To participate in the conference, please submit an application using the provided linkbefore August 31st, 2024. Your application should include a brief summary (250 words) of the original paper (up to 10,000 words) you intend to present at the conference. Papers may represent ongoing research or entirely new projects. Two months prior to the conference (mid-January 2025), all participants must submit their papers for review by fellow conference participants. After the conference, we will explore opportunities to publish the collection of essays that will come out of the Conference.

For more details, refer here