The Edible and the Commonplace: New Paradigms Beyond the Human

Programme

Inauguration of the programme by La Casa Encendida, Cooking Sections and the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council.

With the following presentations:

• Relations between humans and non-humans (rights of non-humans to avoid fertiliser run-off).

  With María Teresa Vicente Giménez, Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the Chair in Human Rights and the Rights of Nature at the University of Murcia. After practising law between 1987 and 1994, her academic research and publications have focused on social justice and social rights, ecological justice and the rights of Nature, legal feminism and children’s rights. In 2019 she promoted the Popular Legislative Initiative to recognise the legal personality of the Mar Menor and its basin in the Region of Murcia, and thus endow the lagoon ecosystem with its own rights. This Initiative became Law 19/2022 of 30 September (published in the Official State Bulletin on 3 October 2022).

• Human – pig relations

  With Gabriel Rosenberg, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and History.

  Professor Rosenberg earned his PhD in History from Brown University. He researches the historical and contemporary links between gender, sexuality, and the global food system. In particular, he studies spaces of agricultural production as important sites for the constitution and governance of intimacy between humans, animals and plants. Although central to human knowledge of reproduction throughout history, agriculture has been peripheral to explanations of the governance of sexuality. At the same time, while historical accounts of American state power have productively challenged issues of governance through the lens of agriculture, they have largely overlooked sexuality as their own formative analysis. Professor Rosenberg’s research considers agriculture as a site of knowledge/power formation that inscribes and mobilises both human and non-human bodies and desires.

Moderators: Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual, from Cooking Sections