The Animal Highlight

Claudia Hirtenfelder

Set around specific themes, The Animal Highlight offers glimpses into the wonderful and complex worlds of animals. This is a spinoff of The Animal Turn Podcast, a podcast that unpacks important concepts in animal studies.

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The Animal Highlight

May 4, 2026
54¾ minutes
36 MB

Herre de Bondt and Rebecca Shen are back on the show to discuss Rosa Dyer’s season “Animal Collections/’Objects”. We delve into some of the key themes and tensions to emerge in the season including questions of value, colonization, ethics, and practices of preservation. We revisit a season that follows birds, bodies, and objects across museums and beyond, asking how ethics, beauty, and decay shape what gets collected, displayed, and believed. The talk moves from drawers of parrots to a living hippo, mapping the gap between preservation and care. Natural history Museum in LondonSmithsonian MuseumPitt Rivers MuseumRe-Animalization with Krit...

The Animal Highlight

S6E8: A Review of Museum Collections and Objects

Claudia Hirtenfelder

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