Event with Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell in Melbourne, Australia:
Is a river alive and a koala a person?
It’s time to take a radical look at our ethical relations to nature and nonhuman beings.
In this special event to kick off our 2026 season, we will meet on the banks of the Birrarung at Abbotsford Convent. Here we will converse about human beings and our obligations to our kin in the natural world. Should we think of rivers as legal persons with rights? And what about animals? How can non-Indigenous law and ethics learn from Indigenous knowledge? And will this make a difference to our planet’s future?
Thursday, March 12, 2026
This event is presented in partnership with Abbotsford Convent.
