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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looking for two PhD or early career scholars who would like to be in the 10th episode of Season 9 "Animals and History" - You'll discuss key overlaps and tensions that have emerged over the course of the season. Interested? Send a quick email to info@theanimalturnpodcast.com
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social discusses how segregating logics were used to govern humans and animals in South Africa’s history. #history #southafrica #elephants #criticalanimalstudies #animalstudies Listen to the full episode here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Harriet Ritvo discusses animals and taxonomy, unfurling how animals are categorised scientifically and in everyday vernacular. She unfurls what this might mean for how we know animals and the ways in which we understand and write their histories. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the latest blog entry, Carlo Salzani reflects on the Animal Highlights done by Rosa Dyer focused on "museum objects." He discusses some of his unease with museums as spaces and several of the difficult themes that emerged in the season. Read more: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/animal-...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Erica Hill and Susan Nance unpack what is meant by modernity and touch on everything from industrialization to concealment and consumption. theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s... #history #historicalanimals #animalsandhistory #theanimalturn #historicalanimalstudies @animalhistory.bsky.social
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Season 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s...
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S9E1 | The Animal TurnS9E1: Animals’ Cultural Histories with Sandra Swart S9E1: Animals’ Cultural Histories with Sandra Swart
Claudia speaks with historian Sandra Swart about the importance of recognising animals’ cultural histories. They discuss the maturation of animal history as a field and focus on the cultural histories...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social joins Claudia to discuss ‘deception,’ a concept in the title of his recently published book “The Omnivore’s Deception.” www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod... #Politics, #AnimalPolitics, #PoliticalPhilosophy, #meat, #ethics , #theanimalturn , #criticalanimalstudies
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Bonus: Deception with John Sanbonmatsu
John Sanbonmatsu joins Claudia on the show to discuss ‘deception,’ a concept in the title of his recently published book “The Omnivore’s Deception.” We explore how deception operates in understandings...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Claudia 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. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In 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 #meat
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/psychoa...
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Psychoanalysis: Eating Meat and Loving Animals
Who doesn’t love animals? Many of us say we do. The devilish detail lies in the ways we love them. Some love animals out of respect, others because they care for them, and some love them by petting th...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In this episode Claudia talks to Teddy Duncan Jr. about how psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, might be useful in understanding human relations with meat. theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/1246910/epis... #meat #meatcommodity #theanimalturn #Lacan #psychoanalysis #philosophy
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The 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: theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/1246910/epis... #TheAnimalTurn #Art #ScienceAndArt #AnimalStudies
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
As 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 theanimalhighlight.buzzsprout.com/1950946/epis... #Animalhighlight #animalturn #animalethics
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-...
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Living collections and the Moo-Deng phenomenon
We are continuing this series looking at the relationships between animals, objects and museums with our next celebrity animal highlight. All of the highlights have been centred around particular kind...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/bf65038... #TheAnimalTurn #Wolves #Bram #Conservation #AnimalEthics
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Rosa 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. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-...
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Living collections and the Moo-Deng phenomenon
We are continuing this series looking at the relationships between animals, objects and museums with our next celebrity animal highlight. All of the highlights have been centred around particular kind...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Large 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectac...
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Spectacular plumage and feather heists
Welcome back to the Animal Highlights! Today we are continuing our tour of the world of animals and museums. This episode moves us a bit away from animal-objects displayed in the public areas of museu...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Rosa 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectac...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Today 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. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-day-o... #WDAIL2026
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/munchin...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The 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! www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fra...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/surplus... #zoos #conservation #baboons #animalethics #animalrights
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Rosa 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fra...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
While 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 #mediastudies
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
In 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots...
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Parrots, frogs and colour-changing feathers
Welcome back to this series of Animal Highlights, where we are taking inspiration from animals in museums. This week we are thinking about how objects in museums can also be considered “multi-specied ...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Rosa 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. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots...
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Parrots, frogs and colour-changing feathers
Welcome back to this series of Animal Highlights, where we are taking inspiration from animals in museums. This week we are thinking about how objects in museums can also be considered “multi-specied ...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In "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. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod... #TheAnimalTurn
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Rosa 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 www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/humming...
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Hummingbirds: Warrior birds and feathered jewels
Welcome to the second episode of this Animal Highlights series where we are exploring the theme of animals, collecting and museums. I’m really excited about this week’s episode because we are focusing...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Gina 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/s8
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Using 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: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/humming...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Gina 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/s8e10
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Rosa Dyer looks at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-ext... #huai #animalhighlight #theanimalturn #NewZealand #extinction
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We 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.
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Animals 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 S8E9
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In this episode Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Jessica Scott-Reid, and Jan Dutkiewicz discuss animals and the news. We discuss different types of news as well as some of the challenges that come with creating news content that focuses on animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e9 #TheAnimalTurn
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In this blog Claudia reflects on the fate of baboons killed at Nürnberg Zoo in 2025. She questions the relationship between animals and zoos making simple observations that while zoos inform science they are also places that breed and kill animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-los...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
In S8E8 Lynda Korimboccus used this quote from Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole to discuss the disconnect between how children consume animals as beloved characters and the ways in which they consume them as meat. What are your thoughts on how media present animals to kids?
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ankita Rathour and Lynda Korimboccus discuss the interconnections of film, tv, and animals. They touch on everything from the Peppa Pig paradox in children’s media to the shifting role of animals in Hindi cinema, nationalism and caste politics. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e8
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Herre de Bondt writes a blog entry highlighting some of the ways in which street dogs in India emerged during conversations about cities and health in Season 7. Read the full entry: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/inclusi...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The quotes shared during S8E7, focused on social media, all speak to the tensions of freedom and captivity. In your experience, what role does social media play in animals' lives?
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John M. Kinder @johnmkinder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Just had a great conversation with Claudia Hirtenfelder of @theanimalturn.bsky.social. We talked #zoos, #war, #elephants, hungry #animals, and much more. Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Laura Fernández, Amanda Weiss, & Siobhan Speiran unfurl the complex relations of social media and animals. They probe how social media packages animals as content, why that changes real lives, and where activism, policy, and platform design can push back. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e7
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Check out this guest post by ethicist Carlo Salzani in response to FarmKind's newly launched "Forget Veganuary" campaign. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/forget-... Learn more about the original #veganuary campaign here: veganuary.com
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Forget Veganuary, Buy an Indulgence: How to Eat Meat, Pay Cash, and Call It Ethics
FarmKind’s new campaign, charmingly titled “Forget Veganuary,” arrives with the air of a bold realist crashing an idealist party. The message is disarmingly soothing: relax, nobody is asking you to st...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
We celebrate 100 episodes of the The Animal Turn by asking how podcasting can teach, build community, and improve animal welfare across languages, disciplines, and daily routines. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e6 #education #podcasting #TheAnimalTurn
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Looking for a graduate student who has an interest in the intersections of animals, race and/or media to join us in the upcoming Grad Review. If you are interested send us an email (info@theanimalturnpodcast.com)
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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
One of my favourite things about this episode is that Doris named three early career colleagues as the scholars who inspire her: Pablo Castello, Claudia Hirtenfelder (of @theanimalturn.bsky.social), and @nicodmueller.bsky.social.
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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places. knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Carrie Freeman & Christopher Eubanks explore animal (mis)representation in media. They examine the representation of animals in activist messaging & the interconnections of animal rights with other social justice movements. lnkd.in/d6TWpb5a #TheAnimalTurn #mediastudies #criticalanimalstudies
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In 1903 the plight of Brown Dog, at the hands of medical students at a London, helped spark the antivivisection movement in England. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5kaf3nvx #theanimalhighlight #TheAnimalTurn #dogs #browndogaffair #animalethics #animalexperiments #ethics #criticalanimalstudies
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal discuss race, species, their Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e1
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