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SSEAC Stories
February 18, 2021
Decolonising Conservation Practices and Research
Seeing the Orangutan in Borneo with Dr June Rubis
June Rubis
Hosted by Natali Pearson
Around the world, orangutans are widely recognised as an iconic species for environmental and wildlife conservation efforts. The rainforest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is one of last remaining …
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Animal Studies
February 17, 2021
Phallacy
Life Lessons from the Animal Penis
Emily Willingham
Hosted by Emily Anthes
The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating book reveals that in fact nature did not shape the …
Animal Studies
February 5, 2021
A Plea for the Animals
The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
Matthieu Ricard
Hosted by Mark Molloy
Today I talked to Matthieu Ricard about two books. The first is A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion (Shambhala, 2016) It is a …
SSEAC Stories
January 28, 2021
Trading Birds of Paradise
A Brief History by Dr Jude Philp
Jude Philp
Hosted by Natali Pearson
Long praised for their splendid plumage, birds of paradise are a rare sight only to be found in the remote rainforests of New Guinea and associated islands. They are among …
Critical Theory
January 28, 2021
Wages Against Artwork
Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art
Leigh Claire La Berge
Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. Leigh …
Animal Studies
January 28, 2021
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
Matthew Gavin Frank
Hosted by Emily Anthes
For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned, American journalist Matthew …
Philosophy
January 11, 2021
Wild Animal Ethics
The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering
Kyle Johannsen
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Many sentient (or possibly sentient) wild animals follow a reproductive strategy whereby they have large numbers of offspring, the vast majority of which suffer and die quickly or suffer and …
Animal Studies
January 5, 2021
Animal City
The Domestication of Urban America
Andrew A. Robichaud
Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
January 4, 2021
Can we Bring Extinct Species Back?
A Conversation with Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro
Hosted by Marshall Poe
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (Princeton UP, 2020), Beth Shapiro …
Asian Review of Books
December 24, 2020
Owls of the Eastern Ice
A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Jonathan C. Slaght
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The Blakiston’s fish owl is the world’s largest living species of owl, with larger females of the species weighing as much as ten pounds. It lives in the Russian Far …
Animal Studies
December 18, 2020
Shaving the Beasts
Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain
John Hartigan Jr.
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual dating to the 1500s called rapa das bestas, villagers herd these “beasts” together and shave …
Indian Ocean World
December 17, 2020
Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
Martha Chaiklin, Philip Gooding, Gwyn Campbell
Hosted by Tamara Fernando
Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), edited by Martha Chaiklin, Philip Gooding, and Gwyn Campbell, examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the …
Environmental Studies
December 16, 2020
The Last Butterflies
A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature
Nick Haddad
Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. Indeed it would be hard to imagine a world without butterflies. And yet their populations are …
Science
December 16, 2020
Turtle
Louise M. Pryke
Hosted by Bede Haines
As ancient creatures that once shared the Earth with dinosaurs, turtles have played a crucial role in maintaining healthy terrestrial and marine ecosystems for more than one hundred million years …
Animal Studies
December 8, 2020
Thirty Times a Minute
Colleen Plumb
Hosted by Mark Molloy
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. Colleen Plumb traveled to over seventy zoos in the …
Animal Studies
December 3, 2020
Why Vegan?
Eating Ethically
Peter Singer
Hosted by Mark Molloy
Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now …
Animal Studies
November 27, 2020
Animal Traffic
Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade
Rosemary-Claire Collard
Hosted by Mark Molloy
Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos. In Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in …
Animal Studies
November 24, 2020
An Unnatural Order
The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature
Jim Mason
Hosted by Mark Molloy
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason’s An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature has become a classic …
Animal Studies
November 17, 2020
Insect Artifice
Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt
Marisa Anne Bass
Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
In Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt (Princeton UP, 2019) Marissa Anne Bass explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dutch Revolt wreaked havoc on …
Animal Studies
November 13, 2020
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
Katja M. Guenther
Hosted by Mark Molloy
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated …
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