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  • Episode 188: Ape ethics with Gregory Tague

    On this episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Professor Gregory Tague, who is Professor in the Department of Literature, Writing and Publishing and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at St. Francis College, New York. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, as well as the editor of both Literary Veganism: An Online Journal and ASEBL Journal. We talk about his monograph An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood, which was published by Lexington Books in 2020.

    You can learn more about Gregory at https://sites.google.com/site/gftague/, and you can explore the Animals, Climate Change and Global Health webinar series mentioned in the episode at https://animalsclimatehealth.com/.

    This episode is brought to you by the Australasian Animal Studies Assocation, which you can join today, and the Animal Publics book series from Sydney University Press. You can learn more about AASA at https://animalstudies.org.au/, and about Animal Publics at https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics.

    31 min
  • Episode 187: Margo DeMello on human-animal studies

    On this episode, we speak to Dr Margo DeMello. Margo is an Assistant Professor of Anthrozoology at Carroll College in Montana. She is the author or editor of over a dozen books. We discuss her textbook Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies, from Columbia University Press. The first edition was published in 2012, but an updated second edition was published in 2021.

    This episode is brought to you by AASA (https://animalstudies.org.au/) and Animal Publics (https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics).

    34 min
  • Episode 186: Spectral-poetic moments with animals with Matthew Leep

    On this episode, we speak to Dr Matthew Leep. Matthew is a scholar of international relations, a poet, and a senior instructor in Politics at Western Governors University in the United States. Much of his recent work has been about new ways of writing in international relations, looking at how – for example – poetry, text fragments, sounds, and images can help us explore interspecies relations. Today, we talk about his book Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War: Animals, Loss, and Spectral-Poetic Moments. This was published by SUNY University Press in 2021.

    This episode is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association, which you should join today!

    It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press, which offers a range of fascinating books in animal studies.

    27 min
  • Episode 185: The Monstrous Vegan with Emelia Quinn

    On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Emelia Quinn, an Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. We discuss her book Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present, which has just been published by Oxford University Press.

    This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association, and the Animal Publics series at Sydney Unviersity Press.

    31 min
  • Episode 184: Discourses, regulation, and cultivated meat with Brodie Evans

    In the second episode in our two-part series interviewing AASA prize winners, we speak to Dr. Brodie Evans. Brodie is a visiting fellow at the Centre of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. His "Contesting and reinforcing the future of 'meat' through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat", which was co-authored with Dr Hope Johnson, was the winner of the 2021 AASA Journal Article by an Early Career Researcher Prize. It was published in the journal Geoforum in 2021.

    This episode is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association), which you can join today. (Only current AASA members are eligible for the AASA prize competitions!) The episode is also brought to you by the Animal Publics series from Sydney University Press, which is currently accepting submissions for books about animal studies.

    30 min
  • Episode 183: Milking Economies with Claudia Hirtenfelder

    On this episode, we speak to Claudia Hirtenfelder, who is presently a PhD student in the Department of Geography at Queen's University in Canada. She is also a fellow podcaster! If you're a fan of Knowing Animals, you'll love The Animal Turn, which Claudia hosts (https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/). We discuss Claudia's open access paper "Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry" – which was co-authored with Carolyn Prouse – published in the journal Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

    This episode is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association), which you should join today: https://animalstudies.org.au/

    It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series, from Sydney University Press: https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics

    40 min
  • Episode 182: Multispecies Love and Grief with Danielle Celermajer

    In this episode of Knowing Animals, Siobhan speaks to Professor Danielle Celermajer about her book 'Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future' which was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

    This episode is brought to you by Sydney University Press and their 'Animal Publics' collections. Plus, AASA - the Australasian Animal Studies Association.

    37 min
  • Episode 181: Boundaries and Veterinary Medicine with Jenny Vermilya

    In this special episode of Knowing Animals, Siobhan O'Sullivan is joined by Assistant Professor Jenny R. Vermilya from the University of Colorado Denver. They Discuss her book 'Identity, Gender, and Tracking: the reality of boundaries for veterinary students' which will be published by Purdue University Press in 2022.

    This episode is brought to you by the wonderful people at Animal Publics, at Sydney University Press: https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics

    And AASA - the Australasian Animal Studies Association: https://animalstudies.org.au/archives/8413

    28 min
  • Episode 180: Dingo Bold with Rowena Lennox

    In this episode of Knowing Animals Siobhan is joined by Dr. Rowena Lennox. We discuss Rowena's amazing book 'Dingo Bold: the life and death of k'gari Dingoes' which was published by Sydney University Press in 2021.

    This episode is brought to you by AASA - the Australasian Animal Studies Association. Check out their Facebook page for all the latest Animal Studies news from around the World.

    This episode if also brought to you by Animal Publics from Sydney University Press. Animal Publics is your one stop shop for Animal Studies books.

    36 min
  • Episode 179: Natural Science and Lethal Animal Encounters with Rick de Vos

    In this very special episode of Knowing Animals, Siobhan is back behind the wheel, and speaking to Dr. Rick De Vos about his work 'A Triumphal Entry, a Stifled Cry, a Hushed Retreat' which appeared in a collection published by Routledge in May 2021 entitled 'Life Writing in the Anthropocene', edited by Jessica White and Gillian Whitlock.

    This episode is brought to you by AASA - that Australasian Animal Studies Association. And the Animal Publics book series by Sydney University Press.

    37 min

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