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History of the IAT
In June 2005, Rainer Ebert
founded the IAT. By putting up notices in the philosophical faculty and
similar institutions, he publicised his idea of having a forum where to
discuss animal ethics within the University of Heidelberg. As a
consequence, our study group was officially founded on the
23rd of June 2005. It consisted of students of different
subjects as well as of professionals which have a profound interest in
animal ethics.
Our main aim was to
establish animal ethics and animal rights as a scientific discipline
within the university and to help contribute giving these topics the
importance within society which is appropriate for such a field.
Therefore, we focused on organising lectures and talks
which were open to everybody interested in the field. In our interdisciplinary series of talks
during the summer term of 2006, we invited academics from a variety of
disciplines such as philosophy or natural sciences to Heidelberg. In
doing so, the audience got a grasp of current animal ethics in all its
breadth. Following on from that, we organised talks on different topics
within the field in regular intervals.
In addition to organising this lecture series, and in order to further
interest in this topic, we published a collection of essays and papers
which contains the contributions by the speakers and which
therefore exposes the reader to the breadth of the field. As editors of
this book, which is entitled "Tierrechte - Eine
interdisziplinäre Herausforderung", our work focusesed on
translating and proofreading the texts and on liaising both with the
authors and the publisher.
Finally, we maintained a blog where we published articles, essays and interviews on animal ethics
and where we discussed these issues. Both members of the IAT as well as
non-members contributed to it.
Chairpersons of the IAT
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28/12/2007-27/06/2010
Alexandra Breunig
Medicine
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19/10/2007-28/12/2007
Jürgen
Scheele
Biotechnology
Alexandra Breunig
Medicine
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1/8/2007- 19/10/2007
Katharina Blesch
Psychology
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11/5/2007 - 1/8/2007:
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Katharina
Blesch
Psychology
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Rainer Ebert
Theoretical Physics, Philosophy
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23/6/2005 - 11/5/2007:
Rainer Ebert
Theoretical Physics, Philosophy
(Founding chairman)
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