In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Abraham Gibson, author of Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History.

In his book, Abe Gibson tells the broader social and environmental history of the Southern United States by focusing on the domestication and subsequent ferality of dogs, horses, and pigs over the past three hundred years. Gibson discusses the co-evolution of humans and domesticated animals both in ancient history and the more recent history of the United States, and highlights how and why the open range in the U.S. South lasted longer than in other parts of the United States. Dr. Gibson uses the differential experiences of feral horses, dogs, and pigs to explore broader themes of commerce, sport, environment, and politics in Southern history from the colonial to the modern era. 

This podcast features a number of questions for Dr. Gibson from Simon Joseph, a former staff member of the Consortium who currently works in the offices of the American Philosophical Society.

Abraham Gibson was a 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Abraham Gibson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He teaches courses on the history of science, technology, engineering, medicine, and the environment, and his research examines topics such as the domestication of animals, the evolution of cooperation, and the relationship between technology and society.

To cite this podcast, please use footnote:

Abraham Gibson, interview, Perspectives, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, April 30, 2021, https://www.chstm.org/video/119.

Abe Gibson — Feral Animals in the American South

Join us as we revisit our interview from April 2021 with Abraham Gibson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History.

In his book, Abe Gibson tells the broader social and environmental history of the Southern United States by focusing on the domestication and subsequent ferality of dogs, horses, and pigs over the past three hundred years. Gibson discusses the co-evolution of humans and domesticated animals both in ancient history and the more recent history of the United States, and highlights how and why the open range in the U.S. South lasted longer than in other parts of the United States. Dr. Gibson uses the differential experiences of feral horses, dogs, and pigs to explore broader themes of commerce, sport, environment, and politics in Southern history from the colonial to the modern era.

This podcast features a number of questions for Prof. Gibson from Simon Joseph, a former staff member of the Consortium who currently works in the offices of the American Philosophical Society.

Abraham Gibson was a 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Abraham Gibson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He teaches courses on the history of science, technology, engineering, medicine, and the environment, and his research examines topics such as the domestication of animals, the evolution of cooperation, and the relationship between technology and society.

To cite this podcast, please use footnote:

Abraham Gibson, interview, Perspectives, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, April 30, 2021, www.chstm.org/video/119.

Replay — Abe Gibson's Feral Animals in the American South

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Stephanie Rutherford about her newest book Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada. Rutherford explores human-wolf relations from the time of Canadian settlers to present day. She further investigates the emotions behind these relations – fear of wolves by early settlers to the disgust of wolves as savage animals. She continues by discussing the representation of the wolf in folktales and other media, as well as identifying times where the wolf is a romanticized figure. Rutherford finishes her book by suggesting we look to Indigenous teachings in their relationship with wolves and recommending we use empathy as a model for moving forward in human interactions with wolves, particularly as a way of facing the global biodiversity crisis. Stephanie Rutherford is an associate professor in the School of Environment at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. She describes her research as inhabiting the intersections among political ecology, animal studies, and bio politics.

This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.

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The Wolf’s Howl: A social history of wolves in Canada

Conducting preclinical animal studies pose a number of challenges for biopharmaceutical companies including the need for costly vivarium space, having the necessary expertise, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Charles River Labs’ CRADL, the Charles River Accelerator and Development Lab, offers companies an alternative to building and staffing their own vivaria with state-of-the-art facilities located in major biotech centers. CRADL provides scalable and flexible solutions that can save young companies the need for substantial capital expenditures on space, equipment, and staff. We spoke to Julie Freebersyser, senior director of CRADL, about the company’s offerings, its expansion through its 2022 acquisition of Explora BioLabs, and how companies working with CRADL are able to leverage the greater expertise and services within Charles River.

Delivering Research-Ready Vivaria with Speed, Scalability, and Flexibility

In this episode, Kassie Jo Baron (University of Tennessee at Martin) and Karah M. Mitchell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) investigate the popularity and representation of “sagacious” Newfoundland dogs in nineteenth-century American literature. The episode begins with an overview of animal studies as a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship between animals, history, and literature. Keeping this framework in mind, Kassie and Karah investigate how and why Newfoundlands, or “Newfies,” became so ubiquitous across the nineteenth-century United States. The Newfoundland’s association with loyalty, water rescue, and maritime industry means it’s no surprise that they appeared in the public and private writings of Lewis and Clark, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson. This episode ultimately theorizes the conditions that led to the rise and fall of Newfoundlands’ popularity in the nineteenth century–what they represented and how they were viewed–and their impact on literary production. Post-production support by Ryan Charlton (Georgia State University). Transcript available at bit.ly/S07E04Transcript.

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S07E04 | Sagacious Canine Companions: Nineteenth-Century Newfies in Fact and Fiction

Colin Dayan, author of WITH DOGS AT THE EDGE OF LIFE, discusses her new book with Gareth Evans of the London Review of Books at Whitechapel Gallery, 3/3/2016.

Colin Dayan at Whitechapel Gallery, 3/3, with Gareth Evans

Colin Dayan, author of WITH DOGS AT THE EDGE OF LIFE, discusses her new book and representation of dogs in literature, film, and culture with Andrea Luka Zimmerman, director of the film TASKAFA.

Colin Dayan and Andrea Luka Zimmerman discuss With Dogs at the Edge of Life

What does an octopus think about? What might it feel like to be a bat? During Orion's latest live web event, authors Sy Montgomery, Marc Bekoff, and aquarist Scott Dowd discuss animal intelligence—the subject of Montgomery's feature "Deep Intellect" in the November/December 2011 issue of the magazine. Listen to Montgomery read an excerpt from her piece, and hear the panel share startling stories of animal consciousness and answer listener questions.

Animal Intelligence - December 16, 2011

We hebben allemaal wel iets met dieren… Om te vertroetelen, om naar te kijken, of op ons bord om op te eten. Hoe staat het met de verhouding tussen mens en dier? Staan we nog steeds bovenaan in het dierenrijk of wordt het tijd om van dit idee af te stappen?
Froukje en Elmer praatten hierover met hoogleraar Maarten van Reesink over zijn specialisme Animal Studies en psycholoog en filosoof Esteban Rivas, die alles kon vertellen over de sociale intelligentie van dieren; van mensapen en olifanten tot en met honden en vogels. Op veel vlakken zaten onze gasten op één lijn, maar over het verschil tussen dier en mens op het gebied van taal konden zij het toch niet helemaal eens worden.  
Ook las onze columniste geurhistorica Caro Verbeek een prachtige column voor over hoe wij mensen misschien een voorbeeld kunnen nemen aan dieren wat betreft het aan elkaar ruiken.
Luisteren dus!

Grensgevallen VI: Dieren zijn net mensen

How ought animals to be treated by humans? A rigorous engagement with the Christian tradition in relation to animals suggests some surprising answers. This lecture will address issues arising from the use humans make of other animals for food, for clothing, for labour, as research subjects, for sport and entertainment, and as pets or companions. It will also address human impacts on wild animals.

David Clough is Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chester and recent President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. His acclaimed two-volume monograph On Animals (2012, 2018) discusses the place of animals in Christian theology and ethics. He is the founder of CreatureKind (https://www.becreaturekind.org/), a project aiming to engage Christians with farmed animal welfare.

The Challenge of Christian Animal Ethics

In the United States today, 10 billion land animals are raised and killed for food annually. That’s over 19,000 animals per minute. About 1.1 million animals during the length of this podcast. Yet as far as federal law is concerned, farmed animals do not exist. They are not counted as “animals” under the country’s primary federal animal protection law, the Animal Welfare Act. Their status is finally changing at the state level, thanks to the remarkable work of our guest, corporate lawyer and activist David Wolfson and his colleagues. We speak with David about nonhuman personhood, about the importance of teaching in driving long-term social change, and about how he’s worked to make animals legible to the law.

Ep. 14 - David Wolfson on pioneering the field of farm animal law

In this episode, Christie Oliver-Hobley interviews Steve Baker. Steve Baker is a Norwich-based artist and writer.  He is Professor of Research for Art and Media at the University of Derby, and Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central Lancashire. 

Christie asks Steve about his recent exhibition, Fieldwork (curated by Maria Lux, Sheffield, April 2019). They discuss animal studies, how Steve got into the field, issues surrounding representation of nonhuman others, plus how artistic work might inform theoretical practice, and vice versa. If you listen to the end you'll even get to find out Steve's favourite animal(s)!

You can view images from Steve Baker's Fieldwork project at: http://steve-baker.com/artwork

ShARC Podcast: Christie Oliver-Hobley Interviews Steve Baker

In this episode Peter Sands Interviews Thom van Dooren. Thom van Dooren is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2021) in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, and founding co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press).

Peter asks Thom about his new book: The Wake of Crows (CUP, forthcoming 2019). They discuss the possibility of a non-abstract, animal-inclusive ethics, how animal studies might look to address the key issues of our time, such as habitat loss and extinction, field philosophy, violent care, story-telling and “snail semiotics”.

ShARC Podcast: Peter Sands Interviews Thom van Dooren

In this episode, Sarah Bezan interviews Lucinda Cole. Lucinda Cole is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois and author of Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600–1740 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016).

Sarah asks Lucinda about her keynote talk at ShARC's Animal Remains conference. They consider how definitions and conceptions of vermin have changed over time, the ethics of island eco-tourism, how animal studies might look to address the key issues of our time, what animal studies might mean to its various practitioners, Extinction Rebellion, the relationship between scholarship and activism, and that episode of Black Mirror in which soldiers are implanted with chips so that they see fellow humans as vermin.

ShARC Podcast: Sarah Bezan Interviews Lucinda Cole

As it has taken shape as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry, animal studies has significantly contributed to our understanding of other species and our relationships with them. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches across the humanities and sciences, animal studies has challenged traditional categories that have long gone unquestioned, such as “nature” and “wildness” that not only clarify perspectives on the lives of animals but human experiences and concepts.

In this podcast, we talk with Harriet Ritvo, who has been a leading voice in animal studies for over 30 years. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the American Society for Environmental History. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center (twice), and the Stanford Humanities Center. Ritvo currently serves as the Arthur J. Connor Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and as a trustee of the National Humanities Center.

Harriet Ritvo, “Understanding the Animal, Understanding Ourselves”

Professor James Donahue Talks: Comics, Indigenous Studies, & Animal Studies. Includes discussion of Brian K. Vaughn's Ex Machina, Arigon Starr's Super Indian, Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women And Girls Movement. . .

James Donahue Talks: : Comics, Indigenous Studies, & Animal Studies

Read and remixed: extract from Jacques Derrida 'The Animal That Therefore I Am'.

If you'd like to know more about this text, check out this podcast: mixcloud.com/livingtheory-mcmasteruniversit/podcast-episode1-on-jacques-derridas-the-animal-that-therefore-i-am/

For the video version see: https://vimeo.com/422456220

Reading Jacques Derrida: mixed extract 'The Animal That Therefore I Am'

From Jonathan Swift’s talking horses to Star Trek’s Vulcans, from HG Wells to Doctor Who, science fiction has tackled the big questions about our relationship with other animals.

Join the experts who investigate the nexus of media theory and animal studies. Discover the themes in famous books, film, and TV – as well as the cult sci-fi stories that wrestle with food ethics, the boundaries of humanity, and alternative ways of living.

For full information on this show, including background links and copyright information, go to <a href="http://theveganoption.org/2013/07/05/science-fiction-doctor-who-hg-wells-swift-frankenstein-under-skin-planet-apes-trek/">Science Fiction and Animals at theVeganOption.org</a>.

(Picture is the underside of the Woking Martian, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland">CC-BY Ben Sutherland</a>).

Science Fiction and Animals - Jul 2013

I chat with Dr. Netzin Steklis, an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Arizona. She has studied a variety of nonhuman primates in captive and wild settings, in particular the ecology, social behavior and conservation of wild mountain gorillas in Rwanda. For 10 years she also served as the Director of Scientific Information Resources for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International.  Her higher education reflects her multidisciplinary interests in human and non-human animal behavior: She holds a B.A. in Anthropology (Biology emphasis) from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Ethology & Evolutionary Psychology from University of Arizona.

Dr. Netzin Steklis

Discovery & Inspiration asks “What can we learn by talking to scholars about their research? What makes them so passionate about the subjects they study? What is it like to make a new discovery? To answer a confounding question?”

For over 40 years the National Humanities Center has been a home away from home for scholars from around the world—historians and philosophers, scholars of literature and music and art and dozens of other fields.

Join us as we sit down with scholars to discuss their work—to better understand the questions that intrigue and perplex them, the passion that drives them, and how their scholarship may change the ways we think about the world around us.

Columbia University Press is a leading publisher of scholarly and trade books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Radio Swammerdam is het wekelijkse wetenschapsprogramma op Salto (99.4FM), op zondag 11u live vanuit Pakhuis de Zwijger.



Radio Swammerdam is vernoemd naar de zeventiende-eeuwse wetenschapper Jan Swammerdam die er een rariteitenkabinet in Amsterdam op nahield.

PODCAST-CONVERSATIONS with artists and art theorists, from visual to performing arts, discussing conceptual frameworks and philosophical outlooks. Also some SOUND-COLLAGES, assembled together on variety of themes, such as: sleep, silence, intuition, collaboration, failure, and more. 

Available via iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artemis-projects/id1462300886

PRODUCER & HOST: Ira Ferris (https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/projects-ira-ferris)

Immerse yourself in Canada’s history! Witness to Yesterday episodes take listeners on a journey to document a time in Canada’s past and explore the people behind it, its significance, and its relevance to today. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. To learn more about the Society and Canada’s history, subscribe to our newsletter at https://bit.ly/news_WTY.

The C19 Podcast is a production by scholars from across the world exploring the past, present, and future through an examination of the United States in the long nineteenth century.

The official podcast of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

The Big4Bio Podcast shares podcasts that give insight and information about/from biotech and life science leaders and organizations within the Big4Bio regions. Check out our Playlists to hear podcasts by region.

A new public events series from the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine brings historical perspective to contemporary issues and concerns.

In the public forums, historians and other specialists speak about culturally relevant topics in front of a live audience at Consortium member institutions. Forum subjects range from medical consumerism to public trust in science and technology. Videos of these events are also available at chstm.org.

In podcast episodes, authors of new books in the history of science, technology, and medicine respond to questions from readers with a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise. These conversations illuminate the utility and relevance of the past in light of current events.

Plucky Ladies explores female curiosity, perseverance, and feats of excellence through discussions with women at the University of Arizona, across many disciplines, and from a variety of backgrounds. Guests include scientists, artists, performers, and authors.

Join the LatinX Pop Lab Crew to learn about how pop culture shapes our everyday lives!

Animal Studies is a burgeoning sub-field of interdisciplinary academic inquiry, largely across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences but also some branches of Life Sciences, that conducts qualitative inquiry about nonhuman animals and human–animal relations. Over the last 15 years or so, animal studies has seen a steady growth in terms of conferences, journal special issues, monograph and book-series publications, graduate research, masters and undergraduate courses and programmes.

The University of Sheffield is recognised as a leader in this field, with the Millennial Animals conference (2000) regarded by the Papers of the Modern Language Association as foundational in the field. At the University of Sheffield, animal studies research is and has been conducted across the Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences in a number of disciplines (Literature, Film, Performance, Philosophy and Critical Theory, SIIBS, Music, History, Archaeology, Politics, Sociology, Geography, and Law).

Sheffield is unique in having a significant number of prominent scholars in their respective disciplinary areas of animal studies inquiry, given its still-growing status. This has led to the development of the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre (ShARC), a network of scholars, graduate and undergraduate students which has hosted a number of speakers over the past two years, as well as reading groups and other events including a meeting of the British Animal Studies Network. A particular focus of research expertise in ShARC is the political and cultural representation of animals; however, the proposed centre’s remit is conceived more broadly to include any form of qualitative understanding of animal life and of human–animal relations.

Aims of the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre

The Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre aims to become the preeminent location internationally for research in the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences (and these areas’ interactions with other fields of research) that considers nonhuman animals and human–animal relations.

The Centre is led by our three directors: Dr Robert McKay, Dr John Miller (English) and Dr Alasdair Cochrane (Politics).

Stories, Science, and Analysis from a Vegan Perspective

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