MOTH Festival of Ideas 2025 - Concert x Cosmo Sheldrake

The living world is stitched together by a diversity of beings whose rich and complex interactions define its everyday drama. Humans—despite their disproportionate capacity to modify the living world—comprise only a small part of this vast web of relations. Yet, anthropocentrism—the systematic centering of human beings—has been a hallmark of much of academia, legal practice, and culture for decades.

That, however, is changing. Practitioners and scholars from a wide range of disciplines—from law and philosophy to anthropology to design and well beyond—are pursuing efforts to bring the more-than-human world into the ambit of moral, legal, and social concern.

The More-Than-Human Life MOTH 2025 Festival of Ideas is dedicated to exploring this rich and rapidly evolving terrain of practice. Unfolding over three days— March 12-14, 2025—at New York University School of Law, the MOTH Festival of Ideas will feature leading thinkers and doers working to advance the rights, interests, and well-being of nonhumans, humans, and the web of life that sustains us all.

With interdisciplinarity at its heart, the Festival will include keynote talks, interviews, book launches, and art performances of various kinds.

The Festival will conclude with a concert by musician and field recordist Cosmo Sheldrake.

Host or Publisher Center for Human Rights and Global Justice