In Conversations With Animals's first location visit, Juliana goes to Lincoln Center to chat with film historian and NYPL librarian Steve Massa to discuss early cinema animal stars and silent film comedy.

Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com

Film historian and NYPL librarian Steve Massa is the author of Rediscovering Roscoe, The Films of "Fatty" Arbuckle, Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy, Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and the Forgotten of Silent Comedy, and Marcel Perez: The International Mirth-Maker.

Juliana speaks with Maribeth Decker, an expert in intuitive animal communication, medical intuition, and energy healing, about using intuitive senses to form deeper bonds with other species.

Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com

⁠Maribeth Decker is considered an expert in intuitive animal communication, medical intuition, and energy healing. In her sessions, she offers more than just animal communication. Using these three methods, she leads pets – and their people – to a place of emotional, behavioral and physical healing. Based on her extensive experience with animal transitions, Maribeth wrote the Amazon bestseller,
Peace in Passing: Comfort for Loving Humans During Animal Transitions. To date, Maribeth has completed over 1,500 sessions with people and their pets. Her clients have come from Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, the French West Indies, Scotland, Switzerland and Thailand as well as the U.S. Maribeth has been teaching her UConnect animal communication class to scores of students for seven years. She shows them how to use animal communication to deepen the bond with their own animals. This skill allows graduates to communicate with animals outside the family, too.

Juliana speaks with lawyer Alisa White about how cities can collaborate with animals to create thriving environments for all.

Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com

Alisa White is a Legal Fellow at the Guarini Center. Alisa’s research focuses on climate justice, state and local environmental law, and land use policy. Alisa received a BA in Environmental Studies and Economics from Dartmouth College, an MESc from Yale School of the Environment, and a JD from Yale Law School. During law school, she was a law clerk at Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Our Children’s Trust, and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger. She also participated in the Rule of Law and Environmental Protection Clinics at Yale and co-founded Law Students for Climate Accountability. Her master’s thesis research focused on land management collaborations between Indigenous peoples and land trusts in the Northeastern United States and central Chile. Prior to graduate school, Alisa researched community-based forest management in Oaxaca, Mexico and worked as an environmental consultant at Industrial Economics, Inc.

Full report: https://guarinicenter.org/document/wild-animal-welfare-in-local-policies-on-land-use-and-the-built-environment/

Highlights document: https://guarinicenter.org/document/wild-animal-welfare-in-local-policies-on-land-use-and-the-built-environment-highlights/

Guarini Center: https://guarinicenter.org/

Juliana speaks with interdisciplinary writer/artist Cat Tyc about the many ways she communicates with her chihuahua, Agnes, and what it means to craft the voice of another species on the page.

Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com

Cat Tyc is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks, An Architectural Seance (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative) and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Her most recent writing has published in Maggot Brain The Recluse, Shock of the Femme, Touch the Donkey and FENCE. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest and the synthesis gallery in Berlin. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture and The Flaherty Seminar and has received support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. She teaches writing at the School of the Visual Arts in New York City and lives in Hudson, NY.

Take a creative tarot workshop with Cat by registering here: https://www.cattyc.com/workshops

Juliana speaks with sociologist Dr. Michael Briscoe about the true impact of adding plant-based meats to fast food menus, imagining a future for farmers to transition away from the animal agriculture industry.

Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com

Dr. Michael Briscoe is the author of "The Meatless Menu Paradox? Environmental Theory and Plant-Based Fast-Food Options." He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Utah State University with emphasis areas in environment and community and social inequality. His research focuses on relationships between society, the environment, and animals. Michael’s research is highly collaborative and often focuses on issues of sustainability and well-being. His research has been published in Environmental Sociology, Social Indicators Research, Energy Research and Social Science, and other journals. Michael is also interested in public sociology and has worked with different nonprofits to apply sociological research methods to answer questions about their organizational impact.

Juliana speaks with Dr. Thomas Aiello and Dr. Kris Hill, two authors of “Nonhuman Animals as Symbols in the #BlackLivesMatter Protests of 2020" about racialized animals, the ethics of using animals in protest, and the interspecies dynamics of police brutality.

Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com

Dr. Thomas Aiello is a professor of history, Africana studies, and anthrozoology. He received his first PhD from the University of Arkansas in 2007 and his second from the University of Exeter in 2021. The bulk of his courses relate to all measures of African American history, from early slavery to Black Power, and all aspects of animal studies. His research interests are broader, covering twentieth century United States cultural and intellectual history, twentieth century African American cultural and intellectual history in a variety of different settings, and animal studies, critical animal studies, and anthrozoology.

This month Juliana speaks with Dr. Erin Morrison, evolutionary biologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in Liberal Studies at NYU, about how colors are produced in birds and how we can re-think the ways we study and name birds.

This month Juliana speaks with Andrew Pershing, VP for Science at Climate Central (@climatecentraldotorg), for a special Earth Month episode on how to use science to create climate conversation, green technology, and coral reefs.

This month Juliana speaks with Myth Monsters podcast on big foot, the hero's journey, and getting curious about monsters.

Myth Monsters podcast is a bite sized look into the monsters of global folklore and mythology with Erin - a massive mythology nerd! Jump in and learn about your favourite monsters from Gorgons to Kelpies, to Wendigos to Bigfoot every Thursday. 1# Mythology Podcast on Goodpods since February 2023!

This month Juliana speaks with author Gina Chung on her new story collection, Green Frog, which explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival.