Knowing Animals

On this episode, we speak to Dr Margo DeMello. Margo is an Assistant Professor of Anthrozoology at Carroll College in Montana. She is the author or editor of over a dozen books. We discuss her textbook Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies, from Columbia University Press. The first edition was published in 2012, but an updated second edition was published in 2021. This episode is brought to you by AASA (https://animalstudies.org.au/) and Animal Publics (https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics).

On this episode, we speak to Dr Matthew Leep. Matthew is a scholar of international relations, a poet, and a senior instructor in Politics at Western Governors University in the United States. Much of his recent work has been about new ways of writing in international relations, looking at how – for example – poetry, text fragments, sounds, and images can help us explore interspecies relations. Today, we talk about his book Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War: Animals, Loss, and Spectral-Poetic Moments. This was published by SUNY University Press in 2021. This episode is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association, which you should join today! It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press, which offers a range of fascinating books in animal studies.

On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Emelia Quinn, an Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. We discuss her book Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present, which has just been published by Oxford University Press. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association, and the Animal Publics series at Sydney Unviersity Press.

In the second episode in our two-part series interviewing AASA prize winners, we speak to Dr. Brodie Evans. Brodie is a visiting fellow at the Centre of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. His "Contesting and reinforcing the future of 'meat' through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat", which was co-authored with Dr Hope Johnson, was the winner of the 2021 AASA Journal Article by an Early Career Researcher Prize. It was published in the journal Geoforum in 2021. This episode is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association), which you can join today. (Only current AASA members are eligible for the AASA prize competitions!) The episode is also brought to you by the Animal Publics series from Sydney University Press, which is currently accepting submissions for books about animal studies.

On this episode, we speak to Claudia Hirtenfelder, who is presently a PhD student in the Department of Geography at Queen's University in Canada. She is also a fellow podcaster! If you're a fan of Knowing Animals, you'll love The Animal Turn, which Claudia hosts (https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/). We discuss Claudia's open access paper "Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry" – which was co-authored with Carolyn Prouse – published in the journal Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. This episode is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association), which you should join today: https://animalstudies.org.au/ It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series, from Sydney University Press: https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics

Professor Danielle Celermajer discusses her book 'Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future' and the need to bring emotions closer to the issue of climate change. She also explores the transformative experiences of living in a multi-species community and the exclusion of animals from politics and society. The podcast concludes with an emotional farewell as the speaker prepares to pass the microphone to someone new.

In this special episode of Knowing Animals, Siobhan O'Sullivan is joined by Assistant Professor Jenny R. Vermilya from the University of Colorado Denver. They Discuss her book 'Identity, Gender, and Tracking: the reality of boundaries for veterinary students' which will be published by Purdue University Press in 2022. This episode is brought to you by the wonderful people at Animal Publics, at Sydney University Press: https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics And AASA - the Australasian Animal Studies Association: https://animalstudies.org.au/archives/8413

In this episode of Knowing Animals Siobhan is joined by Dr. Rowena Lennox. We discuss Rowena's amazing book 'Dingo Bold: the life and death of k'gari Dingoes' which was published by Sydney University Press in 2021. This episode is brought to you by AASA - the Australasian Animal Studies Association. Check out their Facebook page for all the latest Animal Studies news from around the World. This episode if also brought to you by Animal Publics from Sydney University Press. Animal Publics is your one stop shop for Animal Studies books.

In this very special episode of Knowing Animals, Siobhan is back behind the wheel, and speaking to Dr. Rick De Vos about his work 'A Triumphal Entry, a Stifled Cry, a Hushed Retreat' which appeared in a collection published by Routledge in May 2021 entitled 'Life Writing in the Anthropocene', edited by Jessica White and Gillian Whitlock. This episode is brought to you by AASA - that Australasian Animal Studies Association. And the Animal Publics book series by Sydney University Press.

In this very special episode of Knowing Animals we remember, and celebrate, the life of Bede Carmody who has very sadly passed. Vale Bede. You will be greatly missed. This episode is brought to you by Animal Publics from Sydney University Press: https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics This episode is also brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association: http://animalstudies.org.au