ONLINE LECTURE: Núria Almiron (Universitat Pompeu Fabra - UPF Center for Animal Ethics)
Details
The talk is part of the monthly Online Lecture Series framed within the CIAICO/2023/046 Research Project: "The Ethics and Aesthetics of Animal Advocacy Documentary Film in Twenty-first-century Western Cultures."
We strongly recommend that attendants watch Alex Lockwood's short documentary Test Subjects (2019) prior to the lecture. The film can be watched for free at: https://lockwoodfilm.com/test-subjects
Date: 23 jun 2025 12:00 p. m. Madrid
Zoom link:
https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/93938213207?pwd=7KjMhF0MZtk44TDIevm1mAaU1kW7af.1
ID: 939 3821 3207
Access code: 148499
Núria Almiron is co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics and a full professor of ethics and political economy of communication the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Her main areas of research include and combine the ethics and political economy of communication – particularly interest groups and persuasive communication – with critical animal studies, climate change, animal advocacy and interspecies ethics. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Climatic Change, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Environmental Politics, Journalism Studies, Environmental Communication, International Journal of Communication or European Journal of Communication. She is the author and editor of several books in various languages, including ‘Like an animal’. Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering (coedited with Natalie Khazaal, Brill 2021). She has been a visiting researcher at various universities, such as the University of Amsterdam, Université Paris 8, London School of Economics and Political Science, Lund University and Simon Fraser University. She is currently the director of the MA in International Studies on Media, Power and Difference and coordinator of the research project COMPASS (Lobbying and Compassion: Interest groups, Discourse and Nonhuman Animals in Spain).