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S9E7: Fieldwork and Affect with Michael Glover
October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 20 minHistorian Michael Glover talks about what it takes to write animal history that treats cows as sentient subjects while still meeting the standards of rigorous scholarship. He unpacks how fieldwork with cows in the Karoo affected his…
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S9E6: Municipal Records with Frederick L. Brown
October 12, 2026 · 49 minIn this episode we continue our focus on methodology by talking with Frederick L. Brown about how he used municipal archives to conduct his more-than-human history of Seattle. We discuss everything from petitions to bylaws, pound records…
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S9E5: Historical Methods with Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj
October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 22 minIn this episode we switch gears toward considering historical methods. Sean Kheraj and Jennifer Bonnell come onto the show to discuss their edited book Traces of The Animal Past and together with Claudia they delve into some of the ways…
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S9E4: Segregation with Jules Skotnes-Brown
September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minJules Skotnes-Brown joins Claudia on the show to discuss how segregating logics were used to govern humans and animals in South Africa’s history. This includes everything from Addo’s elephants being driven, enclosed, and “tamed”, to…
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S9E3: Taxonomies with Harriet Ritvo
September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minHarriet Ritvo discusses animals and taxonomy, unfurling the ways in which 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…
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S9E2: Modernity with Erica Hill and Susan Nance
September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 33 minErica Hill and Susan Nance join Claudia on the show to discuss “modernity.” They discuss what this relatively messy shorthand means for history and for understanding human–animal relations. They try to unpack what is meant by modernity and…
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S9E1: Animals' Cultural Histories with Sandra Swart
September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 38 minClaudia 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 of baboons and elephants in South…
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S8E5: Gaming with Keung Yoon Bae, Osvaldo Cleger, and Michael Rübsamen
October 13, 2025 · 1 hr 48 minGaming is one of the most consumed forms of media globally making it an important space from to explore human-animal relations. In this episode, media scholars Michael Rübsamen, Osvaldo Cleger, and Keung Yoon Bae discuss the…
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S8E4: Popular Media and Pests with Lu Liu, Debra Merskin, and Emily Major
October 10, 2025 · 1 hr 41 minIn this episode we animals, power, and popular media. Emily Major, Debra Merskin, and Lu Liu help to think through how animals are manufactured as “pests” and “icons” in media and how those labels shape empathy, policy, and everyday…
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S8E3: Rhetoric and Supremacy with S. Marek Muller, David Rooney, and Lauren Corman
September 29, 2025 · 1 hr 56 minIn this episode we discuss how rhetorical constructions of animality, and humanity are mobilized to serve specific power structures, including white supremacy and colonialism. Lauren Corman, David Rooney, and S. Marek Muller come on the…
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S8E2: (Mis)representation and Activism with Christopher Eubanks and Carrie Freeman
September 22, 2025 · 1 hr 39 minCarrie Freeman and Christopher Eubanks join Claudia on the show to explore animal (mis)representation in media. They examine some of the ways in which animals are represented in activist messaging and the interconnections of animal rights…
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S8E1: Trans-Speciesism and the MARS Test with Natalie Khazaal, Tobias Linné, and Ellen Gorsevski
September 15, 2025 · 1 hr 51 minThe Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal join Claudia on the show to discuss how race and species intersect each other…
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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, thinking, and being.