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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)
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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.

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November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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.

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#TheAnimalTurn #mediastudies #criticalanimalstudies
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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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
September 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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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
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Just been alerted that some folks subscription to The Animal Turn on Apple Podcasts has been removed and they are struggling to re-subscribe. Trying to see if this is a wide-spread issue. Anyone else having this problem?
September 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Death permeates our relationships with animals, yet we rarely confront the complex ethical questions it raises. In this conversation with the editors of "When Animals Die," we delve into the emerging field of animal death studies.

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#TheAnimalTurn #death #animalstudies
September 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Thom Norman joins Claudia to discuss FarmKind's work and the tenets of effective altruism. They talk about FarmKind’s compassion calculator and its lack of vegan messaging, the organizations FarmKind supports, and the critiques levelled against EA.

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September 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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In this Animal Highlight, Virginia Thomas focuses on the domestic dog and the ways in which they might be thought of as citizens.

Fun fact - the dog in the artwork is Linus!

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#animals #politics #dogs #animalhighlight #urbananimals #animalstudies
August 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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CFP for "Animals and Business Ethics", deadline for abstracts fast approaching (30 April 2025). Find out more here: www.viennaanimalstudies.com/post/cfp-ani...
CFP - Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations
We are now accepting chapter proposals for the edited handbook “Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations
www.viennaanimalstudies.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I spoke with Kyle Johannsen about The Moral Circle for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Check it out!
Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025) - New Books Network
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April 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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When the triple disaster hit Japan in 2011, people left the area but animals, such as boars, stayed. In this animal highlight Herre discusses how the animals started to roam more in the urban areas and showed no adverse radioactive side-effects.

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April 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It's been a full year since I made my first post for @nichecanada.bsky.social writing about my book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada. Thank you @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social for being so encouraging and making it happen!

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New Book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism
Between the Nature Fakers controversy and the legal status of animals as “property” in anti-cruelty legislation, my curiosity was consumed by these fascinating juxtapositions in the history of animal ...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence?
If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence!
Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do...
#polisky #animalsky
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April 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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In this highlight, Herre de Bondt looks at how nuclear waste from the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima impacted the lives of wild boars in Japan. He discusses how boars responded to the departure of humans and are being impacted by their return.

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April 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Laura and I published a book chapter: "Critical Animal Media Studies: Challenging the Hegemonic Representations of Oppressed Groups through Communication Research".

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#CriticalAnimalStudies #MediaStudies #Intersectionality
Critical Animal Media Studies: Challenging the hegemonic representations of oppressed groups through communication research | Lund University Publications
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February 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Vanessa Amoroso from Four Paws International explains how captive breeding facilities create a "conveyor belt of cubs" that fuel tourism attractions while obscuring the darker reality of what happens to these animals.

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April 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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🐕 Listen to @heeralchhabra.bsky.social from @livunihistory.bsky.social discussing how urban health histories help us understand changing multispecies health, and how India's dog population got caught up in colonialism, with @theanimalturn.bsky.social www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s7-multispec...
April 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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‘There was a climate which was against the bear. We had to do something in a more practical way’ And so they did! 🐻

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‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears
By learning to live with its ursine neighbours, mountainous Pettorano sul Gizio has drawn tourists and new residents, bucking a trend of rural decline
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April 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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joshmilburn.bsky.social
On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @pablopcastello.bsky.social about his work on the 'fabric of zoodemocracy' recently published in @crispp.bsky.social. Available free below or in all the usual podcast places.

knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-236-...

#polisky #philsky #poltheory
April 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Matthew Adams joins Claudia on the show to talk about the dogs used by Ivan Pavlov. They discuss the importance of psychology in debates about multispecies health & point to the significance of art-based in challenging anthropocentricism.

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April 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Host of The Animal Turn Claudia Hirtenfelder will be giving a lecture next week about urban animals and the ways in which they are positioned as urban problems and solutions! if you are in #Vienna check it out!

www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-list

#Wien #animals #tiere #cities #urbananimals
April 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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How promising to see a book about animals and their emotional lives winning the 'Science Book of the Year' in Austria!
lottestegeman.bsky.social Lotte Stegeman @lottestegeman.bsky.social · Mar 18
In these times in which science, biodiversity and animal welfare are under a lot of pressure, it was véry encouraging to receive the award for ‘Science Book of the Year 2025’ in Vienna yesterday 🧪 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM