Call for Abstracts | SENTIENCE: Science, Ethics, Law

Bees playing with balls, flies riding carousels, cleaner fish recognizing themselves in the mirror, spiders plotting elaborate routes to their prey… recent years have seen stunning results in the science of animal minds, leading to vigorous debate about what we can legitimately infer from behavioural and neural evidence about the inner lives of other beings.

The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is hosting their first conference to bring together the emerging community of animal sentience researchers.

Interested in sharing your work? The team are now inviting abstract submissions on the scientific, philosophical, ethical, policy-relevant and legal aspects of animal sentience.

⏳Abstract submission deadline: 11 December 2026
📆 Conference dates: 17–18 May 2027
📍 Conference location: Senate House, University of London

🔗 Full details and submission form: https://www.lse.ac.uk/asset-library/Call-for-abstracts.pdf