Once again I come to you from the Fellow Travellers conference in the US. This time I speak to psychologist and founder of the Animals & Society Institute, as well as the journal Society & Animals, Ken Shapiro. We discuss his 2015 article ‘“I am a Vegetarian”: Reflections on a Way …continue
This episode of Knowing Animals comes to you from New England USA, from the Animals & Society ‘Fellow Travellers’ conference. In this episode I speak to Robert C. Jones who is Associate Professor in philosophy at California State University. We discuss his book chapter titled ‘Veganisms’ which appears in the book ‘Critical …continue
This episode comes to you from the Animals & Society Institute conference in the US. I speak to Catherine Doyle. Catherine is Director of Science, Research & Advocacy with Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. Join AASA today for just …continue
This episode of Knowing Animals comes to you from Wesleyan University in the USA. I am attending the Animals & Society Institute’s Animal Studies conference. In this episode I speak to Margo DeMello about the book she edited called ‘Mourning Animals: rituals and practices surrounding animal death’ which was published by …continue
This episode of Knowing Animals comes to you from the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) 2016 conference held at UNSW, Australia. I speak to Lucy J Parry who is a PhD student at Sheffield University in the UK. She spoke as part of APSA’s first panel on animals. In this …continue
Tim Low is a well know author, having written such classics as ‘Feral Futures’ and ‘The New Nature’. His latest book ‘Where Song Began: Australia’s birds and how they changed to world’ is published by Penguin Books. In this episode of Knowing Animals he talks about Australian birds and our …continue
In this episode of Knowing Animals we speak to Prof. Peta Tait from La Trobe University. We discuss her new book ‘Fighting Nature: travelling Menageries, animal acts and war shows’ published by Sydney University Press.This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA). …continue
This episode of Knowing Animals is from our Protecting Animals series. We speak to Elizabeth Usher, songwriter and hip hop artist who performs ‘mindful rhymes for kinder times’. We discuss using music to create social change. MC Pony will be the opening act at the Living Green Festival in Canberra …continue
