Eva Meijer

Meijer in 2018
Born	1980 (age 44–45)
Website
www.evameijer.nl

Eva Meijer (born 1980) ^[1] 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 ^[2] 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, ^[3] a multispecies art collective, ^[4] 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. ^[5] At the University of Amsterdam, Meijer organized the Long Covid+ Conversations (2024-2025), ^[6] 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. ^[7] In Animal Languages' ^[8] 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. ^{[9] [10]}

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. ^[11]
• 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. ^[12]
• 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. ^[13] Academic publications can be found via Orcid. ^[14]

References

1. Elit. "Eva Meijer". Elit. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
2. "Eva Meijer", Wikipedia (in Dutch), 2025-05-07, retrieved 2025-06-02
3. "The Multispecies Collective". themultispeciescollective.cargo.site. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
4. "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". Metropolis M (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-06-02.
5. Mackiewicz, Anna (2022-12-13). "Eva Meijer". Unbound Project. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
6. Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2024-08-08). "Long Covid+ Conversations - ASCA". Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis - University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
7. Birch, Carol (2018-09-26). "Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer review – a study in avian obsession". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-01-26.
8. "What's On Animals' Minds? with Eva Meijer". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
9. Reviews of Animal Languages:
   • Nijhuis, Michelle (2020-08-20). "Buzz Buzz Buzz". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 67, no. 13. ISSN   0028-7504 . Retrieved 2025-01-26.
   • "Review: Animal Languages by Eva Meijer". The Herald. 2019-11-24. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
   • McConnachie, James (2019-11-10). "Animal Languages by Eva Meijer review — how to talk to chickens (and bats)". The Times. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
10. Reviews of When Animals Speak:
    • Tague, Gregory F. (2020). "Book review: When Animals Speak" (PDF). Animal and Natural Resource Law Review. 16: 247–53.
    • Milburn, Josh (2019). "When Animals Speak". Metapsychology Online Reviews. 23 (51).
    • Hooley, Dan (2022). "Eva Meijer, When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy". Environmental Values . 31 (5): 625–7. Bibcode:2022EnvV...31..625H. doi:10.3197/096327122X16569260361814.
11. "Eva Meijer: Animal Languages review - do you talk crow?". The Arts Desk . 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
12. Multispecies Dialogues (in Dutch). 2025-02-12. ISBN   978-90-485-6442-2.
13. "publications". www.evameijer.nl. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
14. "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-06-02.

External links

• Official website
• The Multispecies Collective
• De Vereniging ter Bevordering van Troost
• Eva Meijer on Bandcamp