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.
Lucy Spelman is a board-certified zoological veterinarian, senior lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, and executive director and founder of Creature Conserve (2015.) She is co-editor of Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation and The Rhino with Glue On Shoes and author of National Geographic Kids Animal Encyclopedia.