Josep Gasol

Upcoming talks & events

• Conference presentation "Nonhuman animals as epistemic agents".
  EurSafe 2026: Agriculture and Food Systems: The Role of AI and Digitalization.
  Cappadocia University, Turkey, 9-12/09/2026.

Recent research talks

• Conference presentation "Nonhuman animals as epistemic agents".
  Helsinki Animal Law Conference 2026: “Reimagining Justice Across Species”.
  University of Helsinki, Finland, 8-10/06/2026.

• Nonhuman animals as epistemic agents.
  PhD Seminar Spring 2026 - Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value.
  University of Pardubice & Online, Czech Republic, 12/05/2026.

• Conference presentation "Nonhuman animals as epistemic agents".
  Conference Embodied Cognition and Comparative Psychology.
  Universidad de Murcia, Spain, 5-7/05/2026.

• Animales silenciados: Injusticia epistémica hacia los animales no humanos.
  BioKoinos-METIS PhD Seminar.
  National Distance Education University (UNED, Madrid), Spain, 18/03/2026.

• Comment on the presentation: The emergence of interspecies pidgin between humans and animals as a form of pragmatic co-adaptation.
  BioKoinos-METIS PhD Seminar.
  National Distance Education University (UNED), 04/02/2026.

• Mentes propias: una teoría ética animal multidimensional con base científica.
  Workshop Mentes Animales 2025
  Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 13-15/11/2025.

• Minds of their own: A scientifically grounded animal ethics theory.
  PhD Seminar Autumn 2025 - Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value
  University of Pardubice & Online, 11/11/2025.

Events attended

• International Interdisciplinary ASAB Workshop: Agency Between Biology and Philosophy.
  University College London, London, UK.
  Online, 22-23/09/2026.

• Animals, Ethics, and Justice. Beyond the Human: Sharing the Planet with Nonhuman Animals.
  Webinar: Capitalism as an Animal Ethics Problem by Prof. Dinesh Wadiwel.
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  Online, 08/07/2026.

• Contested moral framings: Human and Animal Life.
  Second workshop between the University of Pardubice and the Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
  Vienna, Messerli Research Institute, 18-19/05/2026.

• Kinds of Agency.
  Interdisciplinary conference organized by the University of Connecticut.
  Online, 21/02/2026.

• More-Than-Human Deliberation: Moving towards Justice with Animals, Plants and Other Earth Beings.
  Workshop organized by Matthias Kramm, Eva Meijer, Lucia C. Neco.
  Online, 13-14/10/2025.

• Contested moral framings: Human and Animal Life.
  Workshop between the University of Pardubice and the Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
  Pardubice, Centre for Ethics, 1-2/10/2025.

• Expression, Communication, and Fiction. Topics Around Mitch Green’s work.
  Workshop in METIS Seminar.
  National Distance Education University (UNED), 15/10/2024.

Coordinator and organizer

• Coordinator along with Irene Adán of "Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS".
  UNED & Complutense University of Madrid, academic year 2026-2027.
• Co-organizador de la conferencia Perspectives on Thinking 2026.
  University of Pardubice, 10-12/09/2026.

Research projects involved

• AKTION Austria-CZ cooperation project 'Contested Moral Framings: Human and Animal Life'.
• CoRe Beyond Security:Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building - Research Work Package 7: Conflict and Technologies in the Anthropocene.

You can find me regularly at the following events

• The Colloquium Series at The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (SSEA).
• Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy at The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.
• The Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy.
• The Greater Toronto Area Animal Cognition Group.
• The Evolutionary Pragmatics Forum.
• The monthly Reserach Seminar at Animal Law Centre, University of Helsinki.
• The weekly METIS seminar.
• The PhD Seminar at University of Pardubice.
• The Research Seminar at University of Pardubice.
• The BioKoinos-METIS Doctoral Student Seminar.
• The Feminist philosophy of climate change: Climate Change Adaptation through the Feminist Kaleidoscope
• And a couple of reading groups.

Ongoing Projects

• A section in a paper on “frames”, with the AKTION project (UPCE & Messerli Research Institute).
• A paper on animal agency and epistemology.
• A paper on epistemic injustice.