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Animal Studies
Food July 20, 2021

Hatched

Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement

Gina G. Warren

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Guest Gina Warren discusses her newest book Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement, published May 2021 by University of Washington Press. Warren chronicles her experience in starting a backyard …

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Science July 12, 2021

The Social Instinct

How Cooperation Shaped the World

Nichola Raihani

Hosted by Matthew Jordan
Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 29, 2021

Dingo Bold

The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes

Rowena Lennox

Hosted by Bede Haines
Australia and dingos - we have a past and future, and not without controversy.  Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes (Sydney UP, 2021) examines this relationship, with Rowena Lennox's encounter …
General History June 24, 2021

Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West

Jamie Kreiner

Hosted by Jana Byars
On this episode of New Books in History, Jamie Kreiner, Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia, talks about her new book, Legions of Pigs in the Early …
Animal Studies June 7, 2021

Animalia

An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times

Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani

Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times …
Animal Studies June 4, 2021

Animals as Legal Beings

Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders

Maneesha Deckha

Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
In Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders (University of Toronto Press, 2021), Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world …
Critical Theory May 31, 2021

Being Posthuman

Ontologies of the Future

Zahi Zalloua

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The figure of the human looms large of the history of philosophy, from the ancient Greeks speculating about featherless bipeds to contemporary programmers wondering if they can recreate human intelligence …
Animal Studies May 18, 2021

The Rights of Nature

A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

David R. Boyd

Hosted by Mark Molloy
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes …
Animal Studies May 12, 2021

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

Michelle Nijhuis

Hosted by Jenny Splitter
In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve …
Animal Studies May 3, 2021

Metazoa

Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Hosted by Mark Molloy
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms …
Science, Technology, and Society April 23, 2021

The Hidden Lives of Owls

The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds

Leigh Calvez

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Join naturalist and science writer Leigh Calvez on her adventures into science and spirit of animals, as we discuss her two recent books: The Hidden Lives of Owls, and The Breath of the …
Language April 21, 2021

Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can

Herbert S. Terrace

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
Through discussion of his famous 1970s experiment alongside new research, in Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Columbia University Press, 2019), Herbert Terrace argues that, despite the …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 13, 2021

Cruelty Or Humanity

Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities

Stuart Rees

Hosted by Bede Haines
Stuart Rees's Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities (Policy Press, a Bristol University Press imprint, 2020) exposes politicians' fascination with cruelty in their deliberations about policies. Through empirical analysis, human stories and …
Animal Studies April 7, 2021

The Doggie in the Window

How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come From

Rory Kress

Hosted by Mark Molloy
When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn’t think twice before bringing her home. She found the twelve-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop and was handed paperwork showing Izzie …
Animal Studies April 6, 2021

Enter the Animal

Cross-Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality

Teya Brooks Pribac

Hosted by Lauren Moreau
For centuries, science has largely dismissed the idea that animals experience complex emotions, despite the fact the most humans who’ve spent time in the company of animals would argue …
Architecture April 5, 2021

The Bird-Friendly City

Creating Safe Urban Habitats

Timothy Beatley

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His primary …
Animal Studies March 22, 2021

The Reign of Wolf 21

In the Valley of the Druid King

Rick McIntyre

Hosted by Mark Molloy
Today I talked to Rick McIntyre about the first two books of his ongoing The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone series. The first book we discuss, The Rise of Wolf 8 …
Animal Studies March 19, 2021

The Sexual Politics of Meat

A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Carol J. Adams

Hosted by Mark Molloy
Today I talked to Carol J. Adams about two of her classic texts that have recently been republished. The first book we discuss, first published in 1990, is The Sexual …
Animal Studies March 19, 2021

Animals' Best Friends

Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

Barbara J. King

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives-the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day by whales and cows, octopus and mice, even …
Southeast Asian Studies March 15, 2021

Decolonizing Extinction

The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

Juno Salazar Parreñas

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press, 2018) presents a multi-species ethnography of orangutans and humans that probes the shared susceptibilities of both species in …