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The Animal Turn

Claudia Hirtenfelder

Animals are increasingly at the forefront of research questions – Not as shadows to human stories, or as beings we want to understand biologically, or for purely our benefit – but as beings who have histories, stories, and geographies of their own. Each season is set around themes with each episode unpacking a particular animal turn concept and its significance therein. Join Claudia Hirtenfelder as she delves into some of the most important ideas emerging out of this recent turn in scholarship,

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66:22

Bonus: Mother with Yamini Narayanan

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2023/06/14

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56:23

Bonus: Koalas with Danielle Clode

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2023/06/01

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63:44

Bonus: Wonder (dog) with Jules Howard

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2023/04/19

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64:34

Bonus: Animals and Tourism with Carol Kline and Jes...

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2023/02/23

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96:40

S5E10: Grad Review with Oliver French and Amanda...

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2023/02/20

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69:41

S5E9: One Health with Nina Jamal

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2023/01/24

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80:06

S5E8: Community Led Conservation with Gladys...

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2023/01/09

Claudia talks to Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka about community led conservation. They discuss her work with gorillas in Bwindi National Park and how helping them involves working together with the community through health initiatives, efforts to create better livelihoods, and paying attention to food security. Date Recorded: 23 November 2022 Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is Founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an award-winning NGO that protects endangered gorillas and other wildlife

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65:32

S5E7: Politics of Domestication with Chi Mao Wang

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2022/12/19

In this episode Claudia chats to Chi Mao Wang about “the politics of domestication” which involves talking about the global-agri food industry, the meatification of diets in east Asia, and how this has resulted in increasing biosecurity measures in Taiwan. This leads them to a discussion about the westernization of domestication and the significance of decoupling the eating of meat from ideas of civilization. Date Recorded: 4 November 2022 Chi-Mao Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of

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69:10

S5E6: Animal Farm Activism with Camille Labchuk

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2022/12/04

Claudia talks to Camille Labchuk about the two recent legal cases at Smithfield and Excelsior which involved animal activism on pig farms in North America. They discuss how biosecurity is used as a means of creating ag-gag laws, the relative absence of biosecurity considerations in the cases, and the legal exceptionalism animal farms enjoy in Canada. Date Recorded: 27 October 2022 Camille Labchuk is an animal rights lawyer and executive director of Animal Justice—Canada’s only animal law advocacy

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S5E5: Animal Testing and its Alternatives with Thomas...

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2022/11/21

Claudia talks to Thomas Hartung about animal testing in pharmacology and toxicology. They discuss how animal testing involves a weighing of values as well as some of the disruptive technologies that are providing alternatives to animal testing – including stem cell technologies and artificial intelligence. Date Recorded: 5 October 2022 Thomas Hartung, MD PhD, is the Doerenkamp-Zbinden-Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins

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72:06

S5E4: Epidemiological dividual with Christos Lynteris

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2022/11/14

Claudia talks to Christos Lynteris, an anthropologist with a long history of researching some of the interconnections between animals and disease. In this episode they focus on rats and the third plague pandemic highlighting how rats went from being understood as in relation to others to being cemented as a vilified species in the spread of disease. Date Recorded: 29 September 2022 Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on the

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S5E3: Feral and Invasive Species with Lauren van Patter

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2022/10/31

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S5E2: Bioethics with Jeff Sebo

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2022/10/23

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82:13

S5E1: Biosecurity with Steve Hinchliffe

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2022/10/17

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66:43

Bonus: Sentientism with Jamie Woodhouse

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2022/10/12

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72:44

Bonus: Critical Animal Theory with Lori Gruen and...

The Animal Turn ·

2022/09/18

In this bonus episode Claudia talks to Alice Crary and Lori Gruen about their recent book “Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.” They touch on what inspired the book and spend most of the conversation focused on what “Critical Animal Theory” means. It is a timely and theoretically dense conversation.Date Recorded: 1 August 2022 Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School, where she is a co-founder and steering committee member of the Collaborative for Climate

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5:14

An Update

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2022/09/16

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75:47

S4E10: Grad Review with Bailey Hilgren and Hannah Hunter

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2022/05/24

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61:05

S4EB - Bat Communication with Gloriana Chaverri

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2022/04/25

Claudia talks to conservationist and ecologist Gloriana Chaverri about the numerous and diverse ways in which bats communicate. This bonus episode deviates from the usual focus on concepts to a more sustained focus on this large order of animals Date Recorded: 29 March 2022 Gloriana Chaverri is an Associate Professor at the Golfito campus of the University of Costa Rica. She is also a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Her research with bats first focused on the

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68:58

S4E9: Time in the field with Denise Herzing

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2022/04/12

Claudia talks to Denise Herzing about her decades of fieldwork with Atlantic Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas. They touch on some of what she has learnt about dolphins in the wild and the ways in which they communicate using sound. They also talk about the significance and challenges of doing extended field studies. Date Recorded: 23 March 2022 Denise Herzing is the Founder and Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project. Denise has spent decades working with Atlantic spotted dolphins in Bahamian

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