Join us in an exploration of the animal kingdom with our series of events Our menagerie includes Kate Humble on the ancient story of human-animal relations with Keggie Carew; Strictly star Hamza Yassin, ornithologist Birdgirl, film-maker Andrea Arnold and bestselling authors Karen Joy Fowler and Katherine Rundell enchant with a night of animal magic; a live recording of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast from the QI team; vegan activist Kim Stallwood presenting his personal archive; Isabella Rossellini, Adam Rutherford, Lucy Cooke and Sabrina Imbler rethinking animal sexuality; an immersive multi-media Late at the Library with Cosmo Sheldrake, Cerys Matthews, a whale song sound bath by Tom Mustill, the BBC Wild Isles team and a super afternoon with legendary author Michael Morpurgo and Pam Ayres one of the nation’s favourite poets, on her love of wildlife. These events accompany the exhibition Animals: Art, Science and Sound.
Anat Pick is Reader in Film at Queen Mary University of London. She is author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human (Berghahn, 2013), and Religion in Contemporary Thought and Cinema (Edinburgh, 2019). She has published widely on animals in film, vegan philosophy, and more-than-human approaches to cinema. She is writing a book on Simone Weil and cinema.
Kim Stallwood is an author, independent scholar, consultant, and speaker on animal rights. He has more than 45 years of personal commitment as a vegan and professional experience in leadership positions with some of the world’s foremost animal advocacy organisations. The British Library acquired the Kim Stallwood Archive in 2020. He is a consultant with Tier im Recht, the Zurich-based animal law organization, on projects preserving animal rights history.
Paula Sparks is Chair of the UK Centre for Animal Law, Visiting Professor in Animal Welfare Law at Winchester University, Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.