Join us on Thursday, March 25 at 6:00 pm EST for a lecture on Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal & Planetary Liberation with Brianne Donaldson. Brianne Donalson is the assistant professor in religious studies and philosophy and Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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In this talk, we’ll blur the line between the secular and religious by showing unquestioned anthropocentric assumptions within both. We will then rethink “religion” through the lens of Jainism and process-relational thought, not as assent to a dogmatic creed, but as an ethical practice of increasing awareness and response toward animals and planetary life.

About Brianne Donaldson

Brianne Donaldson explores how implicit metaphysical beliefs inform social inclusion and ethical action toward plants, animals, and marginalized people. She is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (2015), and the forthcoming Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (2021, co-authored with Ana Bajželj). She is the editor of Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (2014), The Future of Meat Without Animals (2016; co-edited with Christopher Carter), and Feeling Animal Death: Being Host to Ghosts (2019; co-edited with Ashley King). Brianne is assistant professor in religious studies and philosophy and Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies at University of California, Irvine.