Animal Studies Podcasthttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mvhu2z4ik22kErica Hill and Susan Nance unpack what is meant by modernity and touch on everything from industrialization to concealment and consumption. https://theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s9e2 #history #historicalanimals #animalsandhistory #theanimalturn #historicalanimalstudies @animalhistory.bsky.social14 Sep 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhu2z4ik22khttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mv3t5rlmi22hSeason 9 of The Animal Turn podcast is on "Animals and History." We kick off the season with Sandra Swart discussing "Animals' Cultural Histories." Listen here: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s9e109 Sep 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3t5rlmi22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mr2h2hryyc2q@jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social joins Claudia to discuss ‘deception,’ a concept in the title of his recently published book “The Omnivore’s Deception.” https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episodes/deception #Politics, #AnimalPolitics, #PoliticalPhilosophy, #meat, #ethics , #theanimalturn , #criticalanimalstudies20 Jul 2026 04:22 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr2h2hryyc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mmqepsnq4k25Claudia talks to Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka about their @OxUniPress book "Animals and the Right to Politics." They discuss societal & placed based politics, unpacking why both are necessary to enable animals’ political engagement. https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episodes/right-to-politics26 May 2026 06:33 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmqepsnq4k25https://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mmo7jg4dtc2dIn discussing the interconnections between the meat-commodity and psychoanalysis, Teddy Duncan Jr. used this quote from Noëlie Vialles' "From Animal to Edible" to think through the implications further. @universitypress.cambridge.org #animalstudies #psycholanalysis #meat25 May 2026 09:54 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmo7jg4dtc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mmjq7zrvic2lIn this blog post, Erich Linder, an animal ethicist and philosopher, discusses some of psychoanalysis concepts that came up in the most recent episode of The Animal Turn: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/psychoanalysis-eating-meat-and-loving-animals23 May 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmjq7zrvic2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mm6vzixhp227In this episode Claudia talks to Teddy Duncan Jr. about how psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, might be useful in understanding human relations with meat. https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/1246910/episodes/19115786-bonus-psychoanalysis-and-the-meat-commodity-with-teddy-duncan-jr #meat #meatcommodity #theanimalturn #Lacan #psychoanalysis #philosophy19 May 2026 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6vzixhp227https://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mm6jmlqzgc2gThe co-editors behind Creature Needs share quotes that capture their views on the interconnections between conservation, the anxiety to do something, and art. What are your thoughts? Full episode here: https://theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/1246910/episodes/19071083-bonus-creature-needs-with-lucy-spelman-susan-tacent-and-christopher-kondrich #TheAnimalTurn #Art #ScienceAndArt #AnimalStudies19 May 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6jmlqzgc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mlvkyig2uk2nAs you can hear from the clip, in the final animal highlight looking at "museum collections and objects" we question some of the ethics and practices of what it means to collect animals https://theanimalhighlight.buzzsprout.com/1950946/episodes/18745737-s6e8-a-review-of-museum-collections-and-objects #Animalhighlight #animalturn #animalethics15 May 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvkyig2uk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mlbb6lf3vc2yIn Rosa Dyer's final animal highlight she considers whether zoos could be considers "living collections". Focusing on Moo-Deng she discusses ethical concerns related to zoos and ideas of preservation. Listen/Read the full highlight here: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-collections-and-the-moo-deng-phenomenon07 May 2026 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbb6lf3vc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mkzj4pugzc26The latest blog written by Herre de Bondt considers some of the context and discourses circulating Bram, an offspring of some of the first wolves to re-settle in the Netherlands. Read here: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/bf650385-9aa6-40de-91aa-5f70c2dda93c/edit #TheAnimalTurn #Wolves #Bram #Conservation #AnimalEthics04 May 2026 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzj4pugzc26https://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mkxfndgffs2uRosa Dyer questions whether zoos are “living collections” that objectifying animals in ways that are similar to the animal objects one finds in a museum or archive. She considers the internet sensation Moo Deng and asks what her fame has achieved. https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-collections-and-the-moo-deng-phenomenon03 May 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxfndgffs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mkuh5rulsk2hLarge bird collections like the one at Tring are considered an invaluable and irreplaceable resource for science but they also raise a host of questions about the role and ethics of collecting animals. Listen to/Read the full animal highlight here: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectacular-plumage-and-feather-heists02 May 2026 10:37 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkuh5rulsk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mkko7cx5js2xRosa returns to feathers in this episode, this time to discuss the infamous 2009 “feather heist”, in which Edwin Rist stole an invaluable collection of bright-coloured feathers from tropical birds for the hobby of fly-tying. Read/Listen to more: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectacular-plumage-and-feather-heists28 Apr 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkko7cx5js2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mkadhmvt3c2zToday marks World Day for Laboratory Animals. Established in 1979, April 24th is a day to confront a practice that many would prefer to ignore. Carlo Salzani writes a blog asking if it should be thought of as a day of commemoration. https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-day-of-attention-on-commemoration-and-animal-testing #WDAIL202624 Apr 2026 10:37 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkadhmvt3c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mjybnlqloc2bIn this episode Rosa considers how museum collections and archives could be thought of as living ecosystems. She discusses how webbing clothes moths are understood as ‘pests’ and some of the strategies curators are trying to employ to manage them. More: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/munching-moths-and-parasitoid-wasps21 Apr 2026 05:44 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjybnlqloc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mj7iro7fts2tThe Oxford Dodo is an important specimen because it is one of few surviving dodo specimens in existence & the only one which also includes soft tissue material. But what do we know about the bird behind the specimen? Rosa gives it some thought! https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fragmented-biography-of-the-oxford-dodo11 Apr 2026 09:15 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj7iro7fts2thttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mj2gfhp6gs2vIn the latest blog post, Carlo Salzani discusses the recent killing of baboons at a zoo in Switzerland. He considers some of the discourses and language used. Read the full post here: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/surplus-lives-when-conservation-has-too-many-animals #zoos #conservation #baboons #animalethics #animalrights09 Apr 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2gfhp6gs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3miy7w4opcc2dRosa focuses on the Oxford Dodo, attempting to trace the life history of a bird whose only trace is a fragile head and foot in the Oxford University of Natural History. Listen/read here: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fragmented-biography-of-the-oxford-dodo08 Apr 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3miy7w4opcc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3miy5yxkxfs2dWhile there are many movies that frame animals as monsters there seems to have been a shift in recent times in which it is not animals, but humans, that are the monsters. At least that's what Claudia thinks. Do you agree? #animalstudies #criticalanimalstudies #mediastudies08 Apr 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3miy5yxkxfs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mistys54yc2rIn the The Animal Highlight, Rosa explores the implications of a feather colouring process for thinking about ethical relationality between species and what it means for birds to be included in kinship networks. Read/Listen to learn more: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots-frogs-and-colour-changing-feathers06 Apr 2026 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mistys54yc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3miles4ifjs2fRosa traces a Munduruku feather cap from Brazil to the museum case and discusses how tapirage was a process used to turned green parrots feathers a blazing yellow by using frog toxins, dyes and time. https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots-frogs-and-colour-changing-feathers03 Apr 2026 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3miles4ifjs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3miirvcatxs2oIn "Monstrous Others with Rachel Dean-Ruzicka", we explore how #StrangerThings signals a new monstrous moment, moving from unknowable creatures to human-made villains, & what that shift says about power, identity, and culture. https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episodes/bonus%3A-monstrous-others-with-rachel-dean-ruzicka- #TheAnimalTurn02 Apr 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3miirvcatxs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mic5wlsz3s2bRosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. The object brings into focus the differences between indigenous mythologies and western ideas of hummingbirds and what the impacts of global trade were https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/hummingbirds-warrior-birds-and-feathered-jewels30 Mar 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mic5wlsz3s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mi4d5gzpv22hGina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling shared quotes during the Grad Review focused on "Animals and Media". Both quotes highlight how the boundaries of what constitutes suffering seem to have been drawn arbitrarily. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s828 Mar 2026 09:31 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi4d5gzpv22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mhpt34bjos2yUsing a feather fan as her base, Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. To find out more about the fan and the birds listen to/read the full story here: https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/hummingbirds-warrior-birds-and-feathered-jewels23 Mar 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpt34bjos2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mhpsaitkls2yGina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling come on to the show to discuss the main themes and tensions to emerge in Season 8, Animals and Media www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e1023 Mar 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpsaitkls2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mhfq7546nc2jRosa Dyer looks at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-extinction-of-the-huia-birds-museums-and-global-commodification #huai #animalhighlight #theanimalturn #NewZealand #extinction19 Mar 2026 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfq7546nc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mh65baimq227We start S6 of The Animal Highlight "Museum Collections/Objects" with Rosa Dyer looking at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. Rosa uses the museum object to ask questions about how different knowledge systems value animals.16 Mar 2026 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh65baimq227https://bsky.app/profile/theanimalturn.bsky.social/post/3mh62yxcwfc27Animals are partly absent in news stories because their lives are generally marginalized in human understandings of the world. The stories of animals used for meat are also often absent in mainstream media because it is in the interests of big industry for them to be. Quotes shared by guests in S8E916 Mar 2026 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:gw5sta65jfs557nojgikgdro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh62yxcwfc27