Knowing Animals

This of Knowing Animals features Dr Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Roger Williams University in the US. We discuss her book chapter 'Trading Horses in the Eighteenth Century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic World' which will appear in the book Equine Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity, 1700-Present, which was co-edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld and which will be published by University of Chicago Press in 2017.

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This episode of Knowing Animals features C. Scott Taylor. from the University of Sunshine Coast. We discuss his paper "The Agency of Dolphins: Towards Inter-species Embassies as Sites of Engagement with 'Significant Otherness'" It appeared in Geographical Research in 2013.

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This episode of Knowing Animals features Dr. Andrew Knight, Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics, & Director, Centre for Animal Welfare, University of Winchester. We discuss Andrew's latest publication 'Was Jack the Ripper a Slaughterman? Human-Animal Violence and the World's Most Infamous Serial Killer' which appeared in journal 'Animals' in 2017. The article was co-authored by Katherine D. Watson.

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This episode of Knowing Animals features Associate Professor Philip Armstrong. Philip is based on the Department of English, at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Philip is also a co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. In this episode we discuss Philips latest book 'Sheep'. It is part of the 'Animal' series edited by Jonathan Bart. It was published by Reaktion Books in 2016.

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This episode of Knowing Animals features Associate Professor Tania Signal from the School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences at Central Queensland University. We discuss her paper 'Double Jeopardy: Insurance, animal harm & domestic violence' which appeared in the journal Violence Against Women in 2017. That paper was co-authored by Nik Taylor, Karena Burke and Luke Branlow.

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This episode of Knowing Animals features Prof. Rachel Ankeny from the Department of History at the University of Adelaide. It is focused on her journal article co-authored with Heather Bray. The article is titled 'Happy Chickens Lay Tastier Eggs: Motivations for Buying Free-range Eggs in Australia'. It was published in the journal Anthrozoos in May 2017.

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This episode of Knowing Animals features Associate Professor Nik Taylor. Nik is from the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University. Nik is a prolific Animal Studies scholar. In this episode we discuss Nik's new book 'Ethnography after Humanism' which she has co-authored with Lindsay Hamilton and which is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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This episode of Knowing Animals features Prof. James Serpell. James is Marie A. Moore Professor of Ethics & Animal Welfare, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He is also Director, Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society. We discuss his recently updated and re-issued book 'The Domestic Dog'. It is an edited collection, published by Cambridge University Press.

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In this episode of Knowing Animals we are joined by a very special guest, Dr. Hayley Singer from the University of Melbourne. Hayley has a PhD in creative writing and is interested in ecological and feminist theories of flesh, fiction, avant-garde writing practices and philosophy. Today we will consider Hayley's piece 'Writing the Fleischgeist' which appears in the Animal Studies Journal in 2016.

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In this episode of Knowing Animals we are joined by a very special guest, Dr. Susan Pyke from the University of Melbourne. Sue has a PhD from the School of Culture and Communications. Her interests are centred around literature and the nonhuman. Today we will consider Sue's piece 'Divine Wings: Literary Flights between the Cyclic Avian in Emily Brontë's Poems and Oblivia's Swan Song in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book' which appeared in the journal 'Otherness' in 2016.

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