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. …continue
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 …continue
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 …continue
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 …continue
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. …continue
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 …continue
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 …continue
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 …continue
