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The Schweitzer Institute Lecture Archive

On 22 November 2024, the Schweitzer Institute partnered with the Centre for Animals & Social Justice (CASJ) to organise a groundbreaking conference at Cambridge that explored the ethical and political advances necessary to start providing animals and nature with effective protection. These lectures, together with other lectures and presentations from our archive, can be viewed below.

Prof John Nolt (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

2024 Schweitzer Fellowship Lecture: 

'The Centreless Teleology of Life on Earth'


This talk was originally delivered as the 2024 Schweitzer Fellowship Lecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge

Director's Welcome

The 2024 Schweitzer/CASJ Conference

Dr Dan Lyons (CASJ)

'The Political Representation on Non-Human Animals'

Dr Penny Hawkins (RSPCA Science Group)

'Institutionalising Animal Welfare Protection'

Prof Jane Holder (UCL)

'The working of the Animal Sentience Committee: A View from Environmental Law'

Prof Emeritus Robin Attfield (Cardiff University)

'Expounding the Ethics of the Climate Crisis'

Dr Jan Deckers (Newcastle University)

'Is Veganism Morally Required to Protect Global Health?'

Dr Jonathan M Hoffmann (Witten/Herdecke University)

'Institutional means to enhance the consideration of animals and other affected entities' (1 of 2)

Prof Ulrich Körtner (University of Vienna)

‘The intellectual and cultural context of Schweitzer’s Work Decay and Restoration of Civilization’

Prof Christoph Chalamet (University of Geneva)

'‘'Früher war es anders" (In earlier times it was different): Schweitzer between nostalgia and hope for regeneration'

Prof Predrag Cicovacki (College of the Holy Cross)

‘Forging the broken sword of idealism anew’

Prof Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)

‘Schweitzer and British moral philosophy’

Percy Mark (Ambassador for Reverence for Life UK)

‘Issues surrounding the non-completion of volumes III  &  IV’

Prof Mark Edwards (University of Oxford)

'Writing and Amnesia: Some Quests for Jesus that Schweitzer Forgot'

Dr James Carleton Paget (University of Cambridge)

'Albert Schweitzer and Cambridge University'

Dr Michael J Thate (Princeton University)

'A Pauline Sensual Spell? Albert Schweitzer’s Eco-mysticism and the Present'

Prof Predrag Cicovacki (College of the Holy Cross)

'Albert Schweitzer as an Intellectual'

Dr Sean Duffy (Quinnipiac University)

'Schweitzer's Legacy, Climate Change and Food Security on a U.S University Campus'

Prof Augustin Emane (University of Nantes)

'Albert Schweitzer from the African Perspective'

Archive: Prof Christopher Rowland (Oxford)

'Why Albert Schweitzer's Writing is Crucial to New Testament Studies'

Archive: Dr James Carleton Paget (Cambridge)

'Why Bother With Albert Schweitzer?'

Archive: Percy Mark

'Our Need for the Guiding Principle of Reverence for Life'

Archive: Vreni Mark

'Personal Recollections of Dr Schweitzer and Lambaréné'

Archive: Rt Hon Norman Baker

'What can the government do to introduce a more compassionate approach to animal welfare?'

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