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.
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
The 2024 Schweitzer/CASJ Conference
'The Political Representation on Non-Human Animals'
'Institutionalising Animal Welfare Protection'
'The working of the Animal Sentience Committee: A View from Environmental Law'
'Expounding the Ethics of the Climate Crisis'
'Is Veganism Morally Required to Protect Global Health?'
'Institutional means to enhance the consideration of animals and other affected entities' (1 of 2)
‘The intellectual and cultural context of Schweitzer’s Work Decay and Restoration of Civilization’
'‘'Früher war es anders" (In earlier times it was different): Schweitzer between nostalgia and hope for regeneration'
‘Forging the broken sword of idealism anew’
‘Schweitzer and British moral philosophy’
‘Issues surrounding the non-completion of volumes III & IV’
'Writing and Amnesia: Some Quests for Jesus that Schweitzer Forgot'
'Albert Schweitzer and Cambridge University'
'A Pauline Sensual Spell? Albert Schweitzer’s Eco-mysticism and the Present'
'Albert Schweitzer as an Intellectual'
'Schweitzer's Legacy, Climate Change and Food Security on a U.S University Campus'
'Albert Schweitzer from the African Perspective'
'Why Albert Schweitzer's Writing is Crucial to New Testament Studies'
'Why Bother With Albert Schweitzer?'
'Our Need for the Guiding Principle of Reverence for Life'
'Personal Recollections of Dr Schweitzer and Lambaréné'
'What can the government do to introduce a more compassionate approach to animal welfare?'