Past Events
Explore our past events, many of which you can watch recordings of with closed captions
Lectures & Panels Corporate Strategies for Animal Welfare: New Ways to Improve Conditions for Animals 12-1PM
Leah Garces, USA Director for Compassion in World Farming, discusses progress in improving animal welfare by developing partnerships with food corporations to advance policies and practices that result in measurable improvements for farm animals.
Lectures & Panels Ending Animal Testing 12-1PM
Thea Capaldo, President and Executive Director of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS), discusses animal testing, and efforts and innovations to reduce unnecessary suffering of animals in labs.
Lectures & Panels Climate Change Beyond Environmentalism 12-1PM
Jonathan Lovvorn, Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel for Animal Protection Litigation, Humane Society of the United States, explores the intersectional threats of climate change on the economically disadvantaged, people of color, women, children, and animals; and the unique role animals play as both a cause of climate change emissions and some of its front-line victims.
Lectures & Panels Big Ag’s Dirty Secrets: Corporate Efforts to Criminalize Journalism, Whistleblowing, and Research as “Terrorism” 12-1PM
Will Potter, award-winning author, TED Senior Fellow, and internationally-recognized civil liberties advocate speaks about his work challenging government repression, and the labeling of protest as "terrorism."
