Siobhan Speiran's guest appearances

Siobhan Speiran

Grad Chat - Queen's School of Graduate Studies

The Animal Turn

Joshua Jones

Hannah Hunter

Will Kymlicka

Alan Lomax

David Walker

James Anderson

Jonathan Balcombe

Carl Safina

Ashley Williams

Marc Bekoff

Steven Smith

Kathleen Norman

Andrew Evans

Denise Herzing

Jeremy Gordon

OwlTail

In this final episode of Season 2, Claudia talks to Joshua Jones, Siobhan Speiran, and Pablo Perez Castello about the theme of Animals and Experience. Together they unpack some of the overarching ideas to emerge in episodes 1 to 9 (such as relationality, imagination, meaning, and beauty) and highlight areas that could be explored more in future.  Date recorded: 4 January 2021 Siobhan Speiran is a PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at Queen’s, working with Dr. Alice Hovorka and The Lives of Animals Research Group. Her research is funded by a SSHRC Bombardier Scholarship and focuses on the lives of nonhuman primates in Costa Rican sanctuaries. Her central research question is interdisciplinary, considering how sanctuaries - as sites of ecotourism - contribute to the conservation and welfare of four monkey species. Follow Siobhan’s research on @theanimalwelfarist via Instagram or her website theanimalwelfarist.weebly.com Joshua Jones is a PhD candidate at the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University. His research interests include extinction studies, the philosophy of ecology/biology, and biosemiotics. Josh’s thesis explores the emptiness that resides in ecological communities after species extinction. Twitter: @joshdanieljonesPablo Perez Castello is a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities, Royal Holloway University of London. His thesis in Philosophy focuses on understanding the role human language plays in producing anthropocentrism, and the importance of animal language in relation to political agency and zoodemocracy. Pablo is also undertaking research at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, where he explores how the constitution of Australia should change in light of the argument advanced by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka that communities of wild animals should have a right to sovereignty. He has taught Ancient Greek Philosophy, and lectured on philosophical concepts of nature in the MA in Political Philosophy at Royal Holloway. For more information, see here. Featured:The Complete Capuchin by Dorothy Fragaszy; Decolonizing Extinction by Juno Parreñas; Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor; Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring this podcast, Gordon Clarke (Instagram: @_con_sol_) for the bed music, and Jeremy John (Website) for the logo.  The Animal Turn is part of the  iROAR, an Animals PodcastingA.P.P.L.E Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E)Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThe Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of  iROAR Network. Find out more on our website. 

In this final episode of Season 2, Claudia talks to Joshua Jones, Siobhan Speiran, and Pablo Perez Castello about the theme of Animals and Experience. Together they unpack some of the overarching ideas to emerge in episodes 1 to 9 (such as relationality, imagination, meaning, and beauty) and highlight areas that could be explored more in future.  Date recorded: 4 January 2021 Siobhan Speiran is a PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at Queen’s, working with Dr. Alice Hovorka and The Lives of Animals Research Group. Her research is funded by a SSHRC Bombardier Scholarship and focuses on the lives of nonhuman primates in Costa Rican sanctuaries. Her central research question is interdisciplinary, considering how sanctuaries - as sites of ecotourism - contribute to the conservation and welfare of four monkey species. Follow Siobhan’s research on @theanimalwelfarist via Instagram or her website <a href="http://theanimalwelfarist.weebly.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">theanimalwelfarist.weebly.com</a> Joshua Jones is a PhD candidate at the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University. His research interests include extinction studies, the philosophy of ecology/biology, and biosemiotics. Josh’s thesis explores the emptiness that resides in ecological communities after species extinction. Twitter: @joshdanieljonesPablo Perez Castello is a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities, Royal Holloway University of London. His thesis in Philosophy focuses on understanding the role human language plays in producing anthropocentrism, and the importance of animal language in relation to political agency and zoodemocracy. Pablo is also undertaking research at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, where he explores how the constitution of Australia should change in light of the argument advanced by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka that communities of wild animals should have a right to sovereignty. He has taught Ancient Greek Philosophy, and lectured on philosophical concepts of nature in the MA in Political Philosophy at Royal Holloway. For more information, see <a href="https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/pablo-perez-castello(2339a896-8061-41b1-9895-729489abbe0d).html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here.</a> Featured:<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Capuchin-Biology-Genus-Cebus/dp/0521667682" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Complete Capuchin</a> by Dorothy Fragaszy; <a href="Juno%20Parreñas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Decolonizing Extinction</a> by Juno Parreñas; <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Beasts-Burden-Animal-Disability-Liberation/dp/1620971283/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=beasts+of+burden&amp;qid=1610391731&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beasts of Burden</a> by Sunaura Taylor; <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Being-Singular-Plural-Jean-Luc-Nancy/dp/0804739757/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Being+Singular+Plural&amp;qid=1610391844&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Being Singular Plural</a> by Jean-Luc Nancy Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (<a href="https://animalpolitics.queensu.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A.P.P.L.E</a>) for sponsoring this podcast, Gordon Clarke (Instagram: @_con_sol_) for the bed music, and Jeremy John (<a href="http://www.jeremyjohn.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a>) for the logo.  The Animal Turn is part of the <a href="https://iroarpod.com/join/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> iROAR</a>, an Animals Podcasting<a href="https://animalpolitics.queensu.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A.P.P.L.E</a> Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1246910/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>The Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of <a href="https://iroarpod.com/join/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> iROAR</a> Network. Find out more on <a href="https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our website.</a>

S2E10: Grad Review with Pablo Perez Castello, Siobhan Speiran, and Joshua Jones

Topic: The Lives of Monkeys in Costa Rican Sanctuaries Overview:  Despite Costa Ricas’ ‘green’ reputation, their monkey populations are at risk. My work addresses the call for interdisciplinary in tourism research by drawing on animal welfare, conservation, tourism and animal studies to understand the entangled lives of monkeys and humans, and what a ‘good life’ looks like for a monkey in a sanctuary.

Topic: The Lives of Monkeys in Costa Rican Sanctuaries Overview:  Despite Costa Ricas’ ‘green’ reputation, their monkey populations are at risk. My work addresses the call for interdisciplinary in tourism research by drawing on animal welfare, conservation, tourism and animal studies to understand the entangled lives of monkeys and humans, and what a ‘good life’ looks like for a monkey in a sanctuary.

Siobhan Speiran, PhD in Environmental Studies, supervised by Dr Alice Hovorka