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Between May 15-16, at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, an international and interdisciplinary research project named “Contested Moral Framings: Human and Animal Life”, funded by AKTION, hosted a workshop titled “Toward an Understanding of Framing in Animal Ethics.”

We are proud to announce that Vienna Animal Studies member Dr Doris Schneeberger has been shortlisted in the inaugural Siobhan O'Sullivan Book prize for her manuscript titled Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. A guest at a recent lecture takes a look at "Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals" (Photo Credit: Oliver Hirtenfelder)  We interviewed Schneeberger after she discussed Envisioning a Better Future for

On the evening of May 14th, the Vienna Animal Studies (VAS) group hosted a lecture by Dr. Samuel Camenzind of the University of Vienna. His talk, titled “Genetic Pain Surgery with Molecular Scissors,” presented the questions of ethics and science of genetic pain disenhancement in animals.

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) verändert unsere gesellschaftlichen und unsere alltäglichen Praktiken – das ist nichts Neues. Doch was passiert, wenn wir den Nutzen und die Risiken dieser Technologie nicht nur in ihrer Anwendung auf Menschen, sondern auch auf nichtmenschliche Tiere bewerten? Denn auch für diese kann die Technologie disruptive Wirkungen entfalten, die mit zahlreichen ethischen Herausforderungen, aber auch Chancen, einhergehen.

The 2025 European Society for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS) meeting in Berlin was filled with inspiring, sober, and imaginative interventions into the world of animal studies,

Dr Claudia Hirtenfelder answers some questions about urban animal studies and the connections between animals and cities.

On the 12th of March 2025 Dr Doris Schneeberger discussed her recently published book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals.

We are proud to announce our inaugural Summer Lecture Series including lectures by scholars based in Vienna who are working in the field of animal studies. 12 March 2025, “Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals” by Dr Doris Schneeberger (WU, 18:00-20:00). 8 April 2025, “Animals as Urban Problems and Solutions” by Dr Claudia Hirtenfelder (WU, 18:00-20:00). 14 May 2025, “Genetic Pain Surgery with Molecular Scissors?” by Dr Samuel Camenzind (Univeristy of Vienna, 17:00

We are now accepting chapter proposals for the edited handbook “Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations

Receipt of works in the form of scientific articles, essays, reviews, interviews, literary texts, images or other formats that reflect on the theme, with a deadline of June 30, 2025 . Two and a half millennia ago, Aristotle provided Western political philosophy with a model that would establish the coordinates that define and organize politics and subjectivity in the West: in Book I of his Politics , he defined "man" (the masculine in the English translation, absent in the Gr

Check out this upcoming event in Vienna part of the Sniffing Series hosted by the Interspecies Art Hub

On the 30th and 31st of January 2025, running in tandem with the " Hello Nature " exhibition in Nuremburg, scholars and activists will come together to ask the question "How do we want to live together?" Among the list of speaker's is VAS member Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, a Senior Researcher at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna who works at the intersection of animal cognition and animal ethics At this all-German-speaking event, Judith will be in the session " Rights in

Season 7 of the The Animal Turn podcast has an overt focus on dogs and is explicitly concerned with questions related to multispecies health

Join the reading group discussions of Jonathan Birch's The Edge of Sentience which will take place every last Friday of the month from 10:00

We are proud to launch The Vienna Animal Studies group which comprises of scholars and activists with interests in animals, the ways in whic