Latest Animalhistory Podcast Episodes
Episode 229: What are animal rights for? With Steve Cooke
Knowing Animals - December 11, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr Steve Cooke is an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. His work addresses animal rights, and how we (individually and collectively) should act given that our political communities are not friend...
Episode 228: An animal rights archive with Kim Stallwood
Knowing Animals - November 27, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode features the independent activist and academic Kim Stallwood. After becoming involved in animal rights campaigning in the 1970s, Stallwood began archiving material relating to the movement. Much of this media is now available to researchers as part of the Kim Stallwood Archive at th...
Episode 227: Killing animals in shelters with Angie Pepper
Knowing Animals - November 13, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr Angie Pepper in a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton in the UK. She works in moral and political philosophy, and has published papers on, among other topics, animals’ right to privacy, animals’ political agency, and what we owe to animals in light of climate change. In thi...
Episode 226: New omnivorism with Christopher Bobier
Knowing Animals - October 30, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Christopher Bobier. Chris is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and the Associate Director of the Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership. Among other things, his research concerns ethics, incl...
Episode 225: Solitary confinement of humans and animals with Delcianna J. Winders
Knowing Animals - October 16, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode features Professor Delcianna J. Winders. Delci is an associate professor of law and the Director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law & Graduate School in the United States. Her published work addresses the law around farmed animals, slaughterhouse workers, captive ...
Episode 224: Animals and Epistemic Injustice with Andrew Lopez
Knowing Animals - October 02, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode features Andrew Lopez. Andrew is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Queen’s University in Canada, where he works on critical animal studies, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of biology. Regular listeners to Knowing Animals will have heard his name before –...
Episode 223: The Cheese Paradox with Devon Docherty
Knowing Animals - September 18, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDevon Docherty is a recent graduate of the master’s programme in Human-Animal Interactions at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a tutor in Stirling’s Division of Psychology. She is also a media assistant with the British animal activist organization Surge. In this episode, we talk abou...
Episode 222: Celluloid specimens with Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
Knowing Animals - September 04, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode features Dr Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa. Ben is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. He works in critical animal studies, the history of science, documentary studies, and science fiction studies. In this episode, we talk about his 2...
Episode 221: Praising (and blaming) animals with Rhys Borchert and Aliya Dewey
Knowing Animals - August 21, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode features not one but two guests. Rhys Borchert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona in the United States and Dr Aliya Dewey is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Research Centre at the Friedrich-Ale...
Episode 220: Categorizing (and Killing) Cats with Virginia Thomas
Knowing Animals - August 07, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe guest on this episode is Dr Virginia Thomas, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter in the UK. She has a background in literature, science communication, and sociology, and was previously a veterinary nurse. We talk about her paper ...
Episode 219: Gendering animals with Letitia Meynell
Knowing Animals - July 24, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode features Professor Letitia Meynell, of the Department of Philosophy and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Dalhousie University in Canada. Her work addresses the philosophy of science, epistemology, and feminist philosophy, which all feed into questions about our relationship...
Episode 218: Gendered reproductive violence with Stacy Banwell
Knowing Animals - July 10, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode features Dr Stacy Banwell. Stacy is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Greenwich in London. Much of her research concerns gender and warfare. She’s the author of Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict, which was published op...
Episode 217: In Memoria Siobhan O'Sullivan
Knowing Animals - June 26, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode remembers the life and work of Siobhan O'Sullivan, who founded Knowing Animals in 2015, and died in 2023. The episode features a short introduction from Josh Milburn, and then an interview of Siobhan conducted by Clare McCausland. This interview addresses Siobhan's published researc...
Episode 216: Buddhist animal research ethics with Andrew Fenton
Knowing Animals - June 12, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode, we speak to Dr Andrew Fenton, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Canada. Among other topics, Andrew's work addresses animal ethics, the philosophy of animal behaviour, and the philosophy of animal cognition. We discuss his chapter ‘Re-Seeing Animal R...
Episode 215: Reducetarianism with Brian Kateman
Knowing Animals - May 29, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Brian Kateman. Brian teaches environmental science, sustainability, and environmental communication at Kean University in New Jersey and Fordham University in New York. However, he is probably best known for his activism and journalism. He is the f...
Episode 214: Animal Architecture with Paul Dobraszczyk
Knowing Animals - May 15, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis episode's guest is Dr Paul Dobraszczyk, a Manchester-based writer, photographer and artist who is also a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. Paul writes about a range of topics in architecture, including architectural theory, architectural history,...
Protecting Animals 53: Veganism on the Web with Erik Marcus
Knowing Animals - May 01, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode of Knowing Animals (which is an episode of our intermittent Protecting Animals series) we are joined by Erik Marcus, the animal activist behind Vegan.com, as well as the author of books including Meat Market, The Ultimate Vegan Guide, A Vegan History, Vegan: The New Ethics of E...
Episode 213: Rachel Robison-Greene on In Vitro Meat
Knowing Animals - April 17, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsToday's guest is Dr Rachel Robison-Green, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Utah State University. She works in metaethics, ethics, and epistemology. Rachel does lots of really interesting work challenging stereotypes about what philosophers do and who philosophy is for. For example, she h...
Protecting Animals 52: Mercy for Animals with AJ Albrecht
Knowing Animals - April 03, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis is an episode of our intermittent Protecting Animals series, featuring interviews with activists about the work they do for animals. This episode features AJ Albrecht. AJ is the Managing Director of Mercy For Animals, U.S. & Canada, an organisation she joined in 2019. She is lawyer, and for...
Episode 212: Vegan Socialism with Troy Vettese
Knowing Animals - March 07, 2023 10:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsToday's guest, Dr Troy Vettese, is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. He’s an environmental historian who, in addition to animal studies, has expertise in energy history and environmental economics. We discuss his book Half-Earth Socialism, which was co-authored with Drew...
Episode 211: Animal Creativity with Carol Gigliotti
Knowing Animals - February 20, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode, we speak to Professor Emerita Carol Gigliotti. Before retirement, Carol was Professor of Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. She will be known to many listeners for her work on critical animal studies, ...
Episode 210: Saving Animals (and Ourselves) with Jeff Sebo
Knowing Animals - February 06, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr Jeff Sebo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University, where he is also an affiliated professor in Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, as well as the director of the Animal Studies MA Program and the Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. He’s also...
Episode 209: Teaching Literary Animal Studies with Liza Bauer
Knowing Animals - January 23, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsToday's guest is Liza Bauer, a PhD candidate in literature at the University of Giessen in Germany, as well as the manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking project at Giessen. Her dissertation, Livestock in the Laboratory of Literature, explores literary visions of human-animal relationships a...
Episode 208: Victims of Fashion with Helen Cowie
Knowing Animals - January 09, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsToday's guest is Professor Helen Cowie, a Professor of Early Modern History in the Department of History at the University of York. Her work has a particular focus on the history of animals. Her books include the 2011 Manchester University Press monograph Conquering Nature in Spain and Its Empir...
Episode 207: Gay Frogs with Hannah Boast
Knowing Animals - December 26, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsToday, we speak to Dr Hannah Boast. Hannah is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, in Ireland. She is probably best known for her work on literature and water. Her first book was called Hydrofictions: Water, Pow...
Episode 206: Vegan Geographies with Richard White
Knowing Animals - December 12, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIn this very special live episode of Knowing Animals, recorded as part of The Vegan Society's On the Pulse webinar series, we speak to Dr Richard White. Richard is a Reader in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He is interested in anarchism, activism, critical animal studi...
Episode 205: Cubes of Truth with Serrin Rutledge-Prior
Knowing Animals - November 28, 2022 15:15 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode, we speak to Serrin Rutledge-Prior, who is reading for a doctorate at in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University in Canberra, and is, at time of recording, a Visiting Scholar in the Philosophy Department at the University of Arizon...
Episode 204: Civet Coffee with Jes Hooper
Knowing Animals - November 14, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsToday's guest is Jes Hooper. Jes is a PhD candidate in Anthrozoology at the University of Exeter and the Campaigns and Research Manager for Badger Trust, a British animal protection organisation. The working title of her PhD thesis is Civets in Society: Understanding the Human-Animal Interaction...
Episode 203: Vegan Young Adult Fiction with Ali Ryland
Knowing Animals - October 31, 2022 12:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode, we speak to Ali Ryland. Ali is an animal studies scholar reading for a PhD in English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The working title of her thesis is Changing Representations of Women and Cow, from Milkmaid to Milking Machine. Today, however, we’re goin...
Episode 202: Animal Ethics and Moral Experts with Frauke Albersmeier
Knowing Animals - October 17, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode of Knowing Animals, we speak to Dr Frauke Albersmeier. Frauke is a research fellow in philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Her research concerns metaphilosophy and ethics, including animal ethics and theories of moral progress, and she’s published a number of paper...
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