Program

Here you can find an overview of the complete IARC 2026 program. Some of the presentations will have online speakers, but the speakers will be live in Luxembourg in most cases. All presentations and plenaries in Room A will be available for both live and online participants.

P

= presentation

D

= discussion

W

= workshop

M

= movie

= meals

= other

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Thursday, September 3rd, 2026

12:00-22:30		Registration & Infopoint open
12:00-21:00		Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
09:00-13:00 Room B	W	Open rescue and investigation workshop Zoe Rosenberg
12:00-13:30 Food Area		Lunch
14:00-14:30 Room A		Opening Plenary
15:00-15:40 Room A	P	Ethics in action: How moral frameworks shape success in animal advocacy Sharisse Kanet
15:50-16:30 Room A	P	Representing animals in politics Thomas Hecquet
15:50-17:20 Room B	W	Beyond the usual arguments Valerie Elsässer
16:40-17:20 Room A	P	From undercover footage to headlines: Using mainstream media to expose animal abuse Els Van Campenhout
17:30-18:10 Room A	P	Building a better tent: Quality over quantity in the vegan movement Jordi Casamitjana
18:20-19:00 Room A	P	From the ground up: Local activism as the path to animal liberation Penimah
19:10-19:50 Room A	P	Letting nature lead: The radical act of rewilding land, life, and ethics Emilia Leese
19:10-20:10 Room B	W	Full-time activism for animals Martin Smedjeback
20:30-21:10 Stalls Room 1		Why Only You? - A concert by Soya the Cow Soya the Cow
21:10-21:50 Food Area		Welcome Reception with free food
21:30-22:10 Stalls Room 1		Surprise Show

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Friday, September 4th, 2026

08:30-22:00		Registration & Infopoint open
09:00-21:00		Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
08:15-09:20 Food Area		Breakfast
08:15-08:55 Yoga Room		Morning Stretching note: bring your own yoga mat
09:30-09:50 Room A		Friday Morning Plenary
10:00-10:40 Room A	P	Standing up for animals in court Mika Jue Casper
10:00-11:00 Room B	W	From passion to power: Building stronger animal advocacy movements Katherine Hermans
10:50-11:30 Room A	P	From zoo captivity to the wild Itai Roffman
11:40-12:20 Room A	P	The ethical fork in the road: A carnivore and a vegan write a book Martin Smedjeback
12:30-13:10 Room A	P	Animal advocacy in universities Sarah Wilson
12:30-13:30 Cinema	M	Queer Animals: two short films with vegan drag cow and activist Soya the Cow Soya the Cow
13:00-14:30 Food Area		Lunch
14:20-15:10 Cinema	M	I'm Trying Raymond Cruzzola
14:30-15:10 Room A	P	The science they want us to believe Kat Herrmann
15:20-16:00 Room A	P	Picturing animals - Shifting cultural speciesism through art Helen Barker, Philip McCulloch-Downs
15:20-16:50 Room B	W	Learning, sharing, acting Hannah Engelmann-Gith, Luca Eirich
16:10-16:50 Room A	P	The American mink in Italy after the 2022 ban Amanda Fincatti
17:00-17:40 Room A	P	The power of outreach: Why it should not be under-estimated Martin Whybrow
17:00-18:30 Room B	W	Multi-species survival: Rethinking climate action through animal rights Stacy Banwell
17:50-18:30 Room A	P	Exposing the slaughter industry Frederic Markert, Julia Hackländer
18:40-19:20 Room A	P	Rights of nature: a pathway forward to rights for animals Patricia Welty
18:40-20:10 Cinema	M	Into the '90s: The ALF "Manchester Conspiracy" and the legacy of Keith Mann Max Watson
19:00-20:30 Food Area		Dinner
21:00-22:30 Room A		Animal Rights Quiz Night everyone

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Saturday, September 5th, 2026

08:30-23:30		Registration & Infopoint open
09:00-21:00		Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
08:15-09:30 Food Area		Breakfast
08:15-08:55 Yoga Room		Morning Stretching note: bring your own yoga mat
09:40-10:30 Room A		Saturday Morning Plenary
10:40-11:20 Room A	P	From care to conformity to change Victoria Simpson
10:40-12:10 Room B	W	From burnout to brilliance Amy Brink-Peterson
11:30-12:10 Room A	P	Learning with animals: Sanctuary education for social change Simone Scampoli
12:20-13:00 Room A	P	Humane washing: the big lie Poorva Joshipura
12:20-13:20 Room B	D	Building bridges, not silos: Connecting research, sanctuaries, and advocacy Simone Scampoli, Victoria Simpson
13:10-13:50 Room A	P	The vegan trap: are we making animal advocacy harder than it needs to be? Tobias Leenaert
14:00-15:30 Food Area		Lunch
15:40-16:20 Room A	P	The radical cultural change of the French animal rights movement - a 269 story Jesper EK
15:40-17:10 Cinema	M	FUTURE SCIENCE - The End of Animal Testing? Marc Pierschel
16:30-17:10 Room A	P	Four key arguments against animal testing Savita Nutan, Sole Iriart
17:20-18:00 Room A	P	Navigating veganism in your personal life Autumn Hopkins
17:20-18:50 Room B	W	Împunge - horn crafting workshop Patrick Mahr
18:10-18:50 Room A	P	From law on paper to animal suffering in practice Sabina Bravo
19:00-19:40 Room A	P	From deathbeds to dinner plates - What dying people and animals ask of us Trudy Cuijpers
19:00-20:35 Cinema	M	Cuori Liberi Alessio Schiazza
19:30-21:00 Food Area		Dinner
19:50-20:30 Room A	P	What humanity owes wild animals in the face of climate change Philip Kratz
21:30-23:30 Room A		Karaoke everyone

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Sunday, September 6th, 2026

08:30-16:00		Registration & Infopoint open
09:00-15:30		Exhibit/Stalls Rooms open
08:15-09:40 Food Area		Breakfast
09:50-10:40 Room A		Sunday Morning Plenary
10:50-11:30 Room A	P	Animals need a mass movement Klaas Temmerman, Lucas Temmerman
11:40-12:20 Room A	P	From story to action: Turning public attention into real-world wins for animals Dan McKernan
12:30-13:10 Room A	P	Building a national coalition for farm animals in Mexico: The CODAM model Samantha Mora
13:20-14:00 Room A	P	Beyond the rescue: the importance of lifelong, individualized care for farmed animals Evelien Devriese
14:10-14:50 Room A	P	15 years International Animal Rights Conference
14:50-15:00 Room A		Closing Plenary
15:00-16:00 Food Area		Closing Reception with free food