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  • Episode 178: In Memoria Bede Carmody

    In this very special episode of Knowing Animals we remember, and celebrate, the life of Bede Carmody who has very sadly passed. Vale Bede. You will be greatly missed.

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

    This episode is also brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association: http://animalstudies.org.au

    48 min
  • Episode 177: Our treatment of animals is the worst thing in the world, with Michael Huemer

    On this week's episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Professor Michael Huemer, Professor of Philosophy at University of Colorado Boulder. We discuss his 2019 book Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism, published by Routledge, in which he asks whether the factory farming of animals might be the world's biggest moral problem.

    This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association. It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series from Sydney University Press.

    26 min
  • Episode 176: Vegan men and masculinities with Kadri Aavik

    On this episode of Knowing Animals, we talk to Dr Kadri Aavik. Kadri is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the School of Governance, Law and Society at Talinn University in Estonia, as well as a postdoc in the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki in Finland. We discuss her paper "Vegan Men: Towards Greater Care for (Non)human Others, Earth, and Self", which appeared in Men, Masculinities, and Earth, a collection edited by Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman, and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.

    This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by the Australasian Animal Studies Association and the Animal Publics book series from Sydney University Press.

    27 min
  • Episode 175: The rule of law for animals with John Adenitire

    This week's episode of Knowing Animals features an interview with Dr John Adenitire, who is a lecturer in law at Queen Mary, University of London. We discuss John's paper "The Rule of Law for All Sentient Animals", which is forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence.

    This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association) and the Animal Publics book series from Sydney University Press.

    29 min
  • Episode 174: The history of dog training with Justyna Włodarczyk

    On this episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Dr Justyna Włodarczyk, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of North American Cultures and Literatures at Warsaw University in Poland. We discuss her 2018 book Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s, which was published by Brill.

    This episode of Knowing Animals is sponsored by the Australasian Animal Studies Association and the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press.

    37 min
  • Episode 173: Directed panspermia with Gary O'Brien

    On this episode of Knowing Animals, we talk to Gary O'Brien (a DPhil student in Philosophy at the University of Oxford) about his paper "Directed Panspermia, Wild Animal Suffering, and the Ethics of World Creation", which was published "online first" in the Journal of Applied Philosophy earlier in 2021.

    This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association). You can join AASA today! It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press. Take a look at their list of animal studies books on the Sydney University Press website.

    27 min
  • Episode 172: Vegan pasts, presents, and futures with Catherine Oliver

    On this episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Dr Catherine Oliver of the Univeristy of Cambridge's Department of Geography about her book Veganism, Archives, and Animals, published by Routledge on 13 August 2021.

    This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association. To learn about their upcoming 2021 conference, take a look at https://artsfront.com/event/137832-flourishing-animals.

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

    35 min
  • Episode 171: White Power Milk with Vasile Stanescu

    On this episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Dr Vasile Stanescu. Vasile is an associate professor of Communication Studies at Mercer University in the United States. Lots of listeners will know him for his work in critical animal studies: he co-edits the Critical Animal Studies book series published by Brill, he's a former co-editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and a co-founder of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies. Today, we're going to talk about his paper "'White Power Milk': Milk, Dietary Racism, and the 'Alt-Right'", which was published in 2018 in Animal Studies Journal.

    This episode is brought to you by the Australasian Animal Studies Association and the Animal Publics book series with Sydney University Press.

    29 min
  • Knowing Animals 170: Animal rights pacifism with Blake Hereth

    Dr Blake Hereth is a philosopher who is, at the time of recording, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas. They will soon be taking up a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where they will be contributing to a project entitled "Warfighter Participation in the Development and Testing of Artificial Intelligence". In addition to work on the ethics of war and peace, which is what we discuss on this episode, Blake has published on a range of topics in philosophy and theology, including work on the ethics of procreation, the ethics of eating, and the afterlife for animals and queer people.

    In this episode, we talk about Blake's paper "Animal Rights Pacifism", which was published "online first" in the journal Philosophical Studies earlier this year.

    Knowing Animals is brought to you by the Australasian Animal Studies Association (http://animalstudies.org.au/) and the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press (https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics).

    35 min
  • Episode 169: Animal sanctuaries with Elan Abrell

    In this episode, we speak to Dr Elan Abrell, a cultural anthropologist who is presently an adjunct instructor at in animal studies and anthropology at New York University. We talk about his book Saving Animals: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care. This monograph, which is an ethnographic study exploring the ethical challenges experienced by animal sanctuaries in North America, was published by the University of Minnesota Press earlier this year.

    This episode is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can join AASA today! http://animalstudies.org.au/

    It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series, from Syndey University Press. This is a series of 15 (and growing!) academic works on animal studies. https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics

    41 min

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