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Publications 

Van den Brandeler, E.L. (forthcoming). The epistemic obstacles of fairly including animals in One-Health decision-making. In EurSafe2026 Proceedings. Wageningen Academic Publishers.

van den Brandeler, E. L. (2024). Institutional epistemic barriers to anti-speciesist knowledge. In EurSafe2024 Proceedings (pp. 167-172). Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://brill.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9789004715509/BP000028.xml   

van den Brandeler, E.L. (2024). Towards an Epistemology of ‘Speciesist Ignorance’. Res Publica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-024-09656-0  

van den Brandeler, E. (2023). [Review of the book Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders – Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization, by C. Blattner]. Studia Philosophica, 83. 

van den Brandeler, E. (2021). The political turn of the animal ethical discourse–the need for a virtue ethical approach. In Justice and food security in a changing climate (p. 9). Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2_26

  

Awards 

The Vonne Lund junior researcher prize 2021 – for the oral presentation and paper: “The political turn of the animal ethical discourse – the need for a virtue ethical approach” https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2  

International conference talks 

Upcoming: The epistemic obstacles of fairly including animals in One-Health decision-making (conference talk). EurSafe Congress on Agriculture and Food systems: The Role of AI and Digitalization. (9-12 September 2026)

Upcoming: The epistemic obstacles of fairly including animals in One-Health decision-making (conference talk). 16^th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy. Braga, Portugal, Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS) at the University of Minho. (29 June – 1 Juli 2026)

Cultivating Epistemic Virtues for Fruitful Animal Politics (conference talk). Political Theory, Applied Ethics, and Animals. Sheffield, England, the United Kingdom. (16-17 Jan 2025) 

Institutional Epistemic Barriers to Anti-Speciesist Knowledge (conference talk). EurSafe 25^th Congress on sustainable innovations for ethical food production and consumption, Ede (11-14 Sep 2024) 

Epistemic Responsibilities of Public Institutions in the Human-Animal Relationship (conference talk). MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory. Animals, Equality, and Democracy: Works in memory of Siobhan O’Sullivan. (4-6 Sep 2024) 

Institutional Epistemic Obligations and Interspecies Justice: Analyzing Decision-Making in Zoonotic Outbreaks and Climate Policies (conference talk). International Society for Environmental Ethics 21^st Annual Summer Meeting on Environmental Change and Democracy. (24-26 June 2024) 

Institutional Epistemic Obligations and Accountability for Democratic Deliberation (conference talk). 6^th Topoi Conference on Social Epistemology and Argumentation. Free University Amsterdam. (29 April-05 May 2024) 

Epistemic Barriers of Public Institutions in the Human-Animal Relationship (workshop talk). Rethinking Institutions for Nonhuman Animals. University of Basel (7-8 March 2024).  

Institutional Epistemic Duties and Epistemic Violations in Public Health Decision-Making (conference talk). Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics Annual Winter Seminar. (18-20 Jan 2024) 

Ignorance as an individual and institutional strategy to avoid responsibility (conference session). 16^th World Congress of Bioethics in Basel. University of Basel, Switzerland (20-22 July 2022) 

Speciesist Ignorance as an Obstacle to Animal Justice (conference talk). Society for Applied Philosophy, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (29-30 June 2022) 

The Political Turn of the Animal Ethical Discourse: The need for a virtue ethical approach. 16^th Eursafe Congress. On Justice and food security in a changing climate (24-26 June 2021). https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2  

Organizing events 

Two-Day Workshop “Rethinking Institutions for Nonhuman Animals”, co-organized with Prof. Dr. Angela Martin. 7-8 March 2024. University of Basel.  

Departmental Academic Writing Retreat. Co-organized with Prof. Dr. Angela Martin and Christian Rodriguez-Perez. 12-14 February 2024. University of Basel.  

Graphic design “Philosophische Gesellschaft Basel” for philosophy seminar series (spring semester 2023, autumn semester 2024, and spring semester 2025). 

Academic outreach 

Expert interview in Swiss Online Magazine “Peeps” on animal research committees in Switzerland (2023). 

Expert interview in Dutch popular scientific magazine “Quest” on animal ethics (2020).