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Program

Here you can find an overview of the complete IARC2024 program. Some of the presentations will have online speakers, but the speakers will be live in Luxembourg in most cases. All presentations and contributions in Room A will be available for both live and online participants.


P= presentation    D= discussion    W= workshop    M= movie       = meals       = other

Thursday, September 5th, 2024

09:00-13:00
Room B
WCommunication and interpersonal skills to increase the impact and resilience of vegan organizations and advocates
Melanie Joy
12:00-22:00     Registration & Infopoint open
12:00-22:00Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
12:00-13:30 Lunch
14:00-14:30
Room A
 Opening Plenary
15:00-15:40
Room A
PRewilding and animal freedom
Orla Coghlan, Rik Jansen
15:00-16:00
Room B
WBeyond the comfort zone - Music as activism
Martin Ahlquist
15:50-16:30
Room A
PWhat's going on in Asia?
Aim Ritkampee
16:40-17:20
Room A
PHow can we establish political representation of anymals in practice?
Alli S.M.Abad
16:40-17:20
Cinema
M286
Lena Ella
17:30-18:10
Room A
PUsing your business as activism
David Pannell
17:30-18:10
Cinema
MOpen rescue at slaughterhouse
Martin Smedjeback
18:20-19:00
Room A
PTaking stock: 25 years of reform campaigns in Austria
Martin Balluch
19:10-19:50
Room A
PLaunching medias: a powerful way of changing the culture and fighting against speciesism
Victor Duran-Le Peuch
19:10-20:40
Room B
DAnimal rights and societal collapse
Friederike Schmitz
20:00-21:00
Room A
MThe Heart Whisperer
Susan Hargreaves
21:00-22:00 Welcome Reception with free food

Friday, September 6th, 2024

08:00-09:20 Breakfast
08:15-08:55 Morning Stretching
note: bring your own yoga mat
08:30-23:00     Registration & Infopoint open
09:00-21:00Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
09:30-09:50
Room A
 Friday Morning Plenary
Sam Tucker
10:00-10:40
Room A
PThe right to live informed
Francesco De Giorgio
10:00-12:00
Room B
WHow vegans can prevent and recover from burnout
Melanie Joy
10:50-11:30
Room A
PLegal patients: Developing a legal framework for sentient non-persons
Sharisse Kanet
11:40-12:20
Room A
PAdvancing animal rights in the age of AI
Sam Tucker
12:30-13:10
Room A
PThe importance of international collaboration among antivivisection groups in the fight against animal testing
Sole Iriart
12:30-13:30
Room B
WSpeak up for animal liberation
Mich Dressel
13:20-14:00
Room A
PThe vegan blindspot: wild animal suffering
Jack Hancock-Fairs
13:30-15:30 Lunch
14:10-14:50
Room A
PAn analysis of the laws of cosmetic testing on animals
Aditi Pateriya
14:10-14:50
Cinema
MWhat we gain - Poem
Sarah Gloria Galina Maurer
15:00-15:40
Room A
PThe Chinese fur trade - What you don't know
Nikki Botha
15:00-16:30
Room B
DDiscussion - 25 years of reform campaigns in Austria
Martin Balluch
15:50-16:30
Room A
PGhana as a growing vegan hub in Africa
Doe Nyamadi (aka Tivai), Martin Stanley Adansi
16:40-17:20
Room A
PLessons from other movements
Martin Smedjeback
16:40-17:20
Room B
PArt as activism for social and political change
Helen Barker, Philip McCulloch-Downs
17:30-18:10
Room A
PHow politics is causing extinction: The story of the eel
Farištamo Eller, Martin Enn
17:30-18:40
Room B
WWe have a dream: effective rhetoric for animal liberation
Willem Vermaat
17:30-18:30
Cinema
MCamp Beagle's undercover
John Curtin
18:20-19:00
Room A
PUniting the climate justice and animal rights movement
Richard Twine
18:30-21:00 Dinner
19:00-21:00
Cinema
MSLAY
Rebecca Cappelli Loviconi
19:10-19:50
Room A
PThe sanctuary influence
Liz Wheeler
20:00-21:00
Room B
WBan de Jacht: How can we end hunting?
Susan Hartland
21:00-23:00 Concert (details will be provided soon)

Saturday, September 7th, 2024

08:00-09:40 Breakfast
08:15-08:55 Morning Stretching
note: bring your own yoga mat
08:30-23:00     Registration & Infopoint open
09:00-21:00Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
09:50-10:40
Room A
 Saturday Morning Plenary
Haru Lev, Olga Chevganiuk
10:50-11:30
Room B
WHow to talk to meat eaters
Martin Smedjeback
10:50-11:20
Cinema
MRubi & Aram
Eduard Nistru
11:10-11:50
Room A
P#StopEcocideUkraine: the influence of war on nature and animals
Olga Chevganiuk
12:00-12:40
Room A
PBearing witness and inspiring change
Gemunu de Silva
12:00-13:30
Room B
WFoundational questions: welfarism vs. abolitionism
Johannes Pichler, Kevin Xia, Laura Wenzel, Paul Sonnleitner
12:00-13:30
Cinema
MAnimal experiments in education
Nick Jukes
12:50-13:30
Room A
PInvestigation: Ireland's pig industry
Becky Jenkins, Laura Broxson
13:30-15:30 Lunch
13:40-14:20
Room A
PThe language we use to communicate veganism may stop us from achieving animal liberation
Delfina Toso
13:40-14:40
Room B
WForging international collaboration among antivivisection groups in the fight against animal testing
John Curtin, Sole Iriart
14:30-15:10
Room A
PPlant-Based Universities
Nathan McGovern, Sophie Wenzel
15:20-16:00
Room A
PA threat for human health - How animal agriculture causes pandemics and other health crises
Luisa Hilbrand
16:10-16:50
Room A
PThe case for wild animals: the wilderness contract
Martin Balluch
17:00-17:40
Room A
PThe #1 threat to vegan unity
David Ramms
17:00-18:30
Room B
WThe SHAC model: launching and winning effective pressure campaigns
Gerrah Selby, Tom Harris
17:50-18:30
Room A
PNavigating dominant culture: Crafting solutions for genuine liberation
Josue Cabrera
18:40-19:20
Room A
PSchool meals in Portugal - A vegan weekly lunch for all students
Carolina Mesquita
18:40-20:20
Cinema
MUtilizing our diversity and creativity in the movement: "Planet A"
Haru Lev
19:00-21:00 Dinner
19:30-20:10
Room A
PCoping with grief to avoid burnout and build resilience
Shawna Weaver
20:30-21:30 Open Mic
21:30-23:30 Karaoke

Sunday, September 8th, 2024

08:00-09:50 Breakfast
08:15-08:55 Morning Stretching
note: bring your own yoga mat
08:30-16:00     Registration & Infopoint open
09:00-15:30Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
10:00-10:40
Room A
 Sunday Morning Plenary
Farištamo Eller
10:50-11:30
Room A
PAnimal sanctuaries: the future we imagine
Simone Scampoli
10:50-12:20
Room B
WTransformative approaches to dominant culture conflict
Josue Cabrera
11:40-12:20
Room A
PDissection and ethically sourced animal cadavers in education
Nick Jukes
12:30-13:10
Room A
PFreeing the animal cause from the naturalist ideology
Raimon Sabater Ferrer
12:30-13:10
Room B
WEducating with stories
Susan Hargreaves
13:20-14:00
Room A
PHow to enter slaughterhouses and film on the kill floor around the world - and the different impacts it can entail
Lena Ella
14:10-14:50
Room A
PCampaigns to take down Goliath with Animal Rising
Rose Patterson
14:50-15:00 Closing Plenary
15:00-16:00 Closing Reception with free food

Some general information about the program

All presentations and workshops are scheduled to have a 10-minute break until the next session so that there is enough time to take a short break and switch to another room. Also, in that time, we will ventilate the rooms to ensure that now aerosole concentration builds up in the rooms.