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2025 AELA/AAPAE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE DETAILS

Thursday 1st May to Saturday 3rd May 2025
Griffith Ecocentre (Griffith University),
Building N68, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan (Brisbane) Qld 4111

AELA is pleased to be working in partnership with the AAPAE (Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics) to co-host an exciting national conference in May 2025 in Brisbane.

Call for Proposals

Submit your proposal to present and share at "Ethical Futures" in May 2025

Submissions are due by Friday 28 February, 2025

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

We live in a time of rapid social, economic and environmental change and disruption. Now more than ever we need to build creative visions for our future and apply principled and ethical decision making and action.

Over three days, AELA and the AAPAE will bring together people from diverse fields of research and practice, to explore how we can build ethical futures in a changing world. 

Who is this conference for? Everyone interested in exploring, discussing and sharing ideas about we can build a society that centres the health of the living world and our human communities.

Everyone is welcome!

** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN 'IN PERSON ONLY' CONFERENCE - presenters and attendees are invited to attend in person, as there will be no online presentations or attendance options.

** Please note that all accepted speakers will be required to pay for registration for the conference, in order to attend and present. As the conference is being organized by volunteers, all conference registrations will directly support the costs of hosting the conference.

CONFERENCE THEMES

The AELA/AAPAE Conference will explore themes including the following:

  • First Nations ethics, governance and decision making: de-colonised futures and representations.
  • Our ethical obligations to the non-human world: ecocentric governance, rights of nature, earth laws, bioregionalism and human-nature relationships.
  • Technologies of the future for environments of the future: ethical challenges and promises.
  • Caring for others while caring for the planet: the ethical challenges and potential harms of altruism.
  • Whose job is it anyway? Markets, grassroots movements, regulation and law: The role of the private sector, community and governments in building an ethical future.
  • Everyday ethics – changes to ethics and values to ensure, and adapt to, a safe, integrated and livable future.
  • General issues in applied and professional ethics.

The 2025 conference will focus on these and related questions.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT OUR CALL FOR PROPOSALS!
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL AND JOIN US IN MAY!

CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE

AELA Representatives - Dr Michelle Maloney & Sarah Bashforth

AAPAE Representatives - Dr Hugh Breakey, Griffith University; Dr Larelle Bossi, Griffith University and & Dr Jorge Piaia Mendonca, Curtin University

MORE INFORMATION

Email: aela@earthlaws.org.au

GUEST SPEAKERS CONFIRMED SO FAR