Eva Meijer
{{Short description|Dutch philosopher and writer}}
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Eva Meijer (born 1980){{Cite web |last=Elit |title=Eva Meijer |url=https://www.europaeischeliteraturtage.at/en/authors/eva-meijer/1934 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=Elit |language=en}} is a Dutch philosopher, writer, visual artist and singer-songwriter.
Work
Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns. Meijer published twenty books{{Citation |title=Eva Meijer |date=2025-05-07 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eva_Meijer&oldid=69278020 |access-date=2025-06-02 |language=nl}} and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Meijer works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and writes essays and columns for Dutch newspapers. They are a member of the Multispecies Collective,{{Cite web |title=The Multispecies Collective |url=https://themultispeciescollective.cargo.site/ |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=themultispeciescollective.cargo.site}} a multispecies art collective,{{Cite web |title=Een collectief van honden, muizen, mensen en duiven - Het Meersoortig Collectief - in gesprek met Eva Meijer en GC Heemskerk over de artistieke talenten van het dier |url=https://metropolism.com/nl/feature/een-collectief-van-honden-muizen-mensen-en-duiven-het-meersoortig-collectief/ |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=Metropolis M |language=nl-NL}} and De Vereniging ter Bevordering van Troost (The Association for the Promotion of Consolation), an art collective focused on healing and developing new practices of care. Meijer is co-chair of the Dutch Study Group for Animal Philosophy.{{Cite web |last=Mackiewicz |first=Anna |date=2022-12-13 |title=Eva Meijer |url=https://unboundproject.org/eva-meijer/ |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=Unbound Project |language=en-US}} At the University of Amsterdam, Meijer organized the Long Covid+ Conversations (2024-2025),{{Cite web |last=Amsterdam |first=Universiteit van |date=2024-08-08 |title=Long Covid+ Conversations - ASCA |url=https://asca.uva.nl/programme/seminars/long-covid/long-covid.html |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis - University of Amsterdam |language=en}} an online lecture series about long covid and other postviral conditions, aimed at creating philosophical knowledge and fostering solidarity.
Bird Cottage creates a fictional life for the British naturalist and musician Gwendolen Howard, based on the little that is known of her. Howard studied birds in Sussex.{{Cite news |last=Birch |first=Carol |date=2018-09-26 |title=Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer review – a study in avian obsession |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/26/bird-cottage-eva-meijer-gwendolen-len-howard |access-date=2025-01-26 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} In Animal Languages'{{Cite web |title=What's On Animals' Minds? with Eva Meijer |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/whats-on-animals-minds-with-eva-meijer/id1068563276?i=1000516080930 |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=Apple Podcasts |language=en-GB}} and in When Animals Speak, Meijer argues that animals have been speaking to humans all along, if only we would recognise it, and that humans should learn to understand what they are telling us, for their protection and ours.Reviews of Animal Languages:
- {{Cite news |last=Nijhuis |first=Michelle |date=2020-08-20 |title=Buzz Buzz Buzz |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/08/20/buzz-buzz-interspecies-communication/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |work=The New York Review of Books |language=en |volume=67 |issue=13 |issn=0028-7504}}
- {{Cite web |date=2019-11-24 |title=Review: Animal Languages by Eva Meijer |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/18043835.review-animal-languages-eva-meijer/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Herald |language=en}}
- {{Cite web |last=McConnachie |first=James |date=2019-11-10 |title=Animal Languages by Eva Meijer review — how to talk to chickens (and bats) |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/animal-languages-by-eva-meijer-review-how-to-talk-to-chickens-and-bats-xjjpczq0b |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Times|language=en}}Reviews of When Animals Speak:
- {{cite journal|author=Tague, Gregory F.|authorlink=Gregory Tague|year=2020|title=Book review: When Animals Speak|journal=Animal and Natural Resource Law Review|volume=16|pages=247–53|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5409020de4b085cd07469b9a/t/613b6d689128cd56569a311b/1631284586069/ANRLR+Vol+16_0.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|url=https://metapsychology.net/index.php/book-review/when-animals-speak/|author=Milburn, Josh|year=2019|title=When Animals Speak|journal=Metapsychology Online Reviews|volume=23|issue=51}}
- {{cite journal|author=Hooley, Dan|year=2022|title=Eva Meijer, When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy|journal=Environmental Values|volume=31|issue=5|pages=625–7|doi=10.3197/096327122X16569260361814|bibcode=2022EnvV...31..625H }}
Books published in English
- Bird Cottage. London: Pushkin, 2018, {{ISBN|978-1782273936}}. 2019, {{ISBN|9781782273950}}. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett.
- Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World. London/New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. {{ISBN|9780262044035}}. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson.{{Cite web |date=2019-12-15 |title=Eva Meijer: Animal Languages review - do you talk crow? |url=https://theartsdesk.com/books/eva-meijer-animal-languages-review-do-you-talk-crow |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Arts Desk |language=en}}
- When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1479863136}}.
- The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression. London: Pushkin, 2021. {{ISBN|9781782275992}}. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett
- Multispecies Dialogues. Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025. ISBN 9789048564415. Available Open Access here.{{Cite book |url=https://www.aup.nl/nl/book/9789048564422/multispecies-dialogues |title=Multispecies Dialogues |date=2025-02-12 |isbn=978-90-485-6442-2 |language=nl}}
- Multispecies Assemblies. Vermont: VINE Press, 2025.
Forthcoming:
- Sea Now. Bath: Pereine Press, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo.
- Maybe is another Word for Hope. London: The Philosopher, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by David McKay.
A full list of publications can be accessed on Meijer's website.{{Cite web |title=publications |url=https://www.evameijer.nl/en/publications.htm |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=www.evameijer.nl}} Academic publications can be found via Orcid.{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9597-5833 |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=orcid.org}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.evameijer.nl}}
- [https://themultispeciescollective.cargo.site/ The Multispecies Collective]
- [https://troostvereniging.nl/ De Vereniging ter Bevordering van Troost]
- {{Bandcamp|evameijer}}
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Category:21st-century Dutch writers
Category:21st-century Dutch women writers
Category:University of Amsterdam alumni
Category:21st-century Dutch philosophers
Category:Dutch women philosophers
Category:Dutch political philosophers
Category:Philosophers of language
Category:Dutch animal rights scholars
Category:Dutch women novelists
Category:21st-century Dutch novelists
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