by octopusgarden | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
The recent volume of Osiris, entitled ‘Animal Mobilities’, edited by Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga and Daniel Rosenberg, has an article by Raf De Bont that follows two northern white rhinoceroses to discuss the entanglement of mid-twentieth century zoo...
by octopusgarden | Mar 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
From 19-21 March, 2025, the conference Rewilding in Europe: Genealogies, Imaginaries and Practices of Conservation in the Anthropocene took place at Museum Koenig, Bonn. It offered interdisciplinary discussions between conservationists, geneticists, historians and...
by octopusgarden | Mar 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Raf De Bont has a new article out in the Journal of Global History discussing how the advent of computers changed zoos – touching upon databases, ‘ infrastructural globalism’ and transcontinental flows of Siberian tigers. Abstract: In 1974, the...
by octopusgarden | Mar 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Vincent Bijman has an article out in the latest issue of the Journal of Medicine and Allied Sciences, which discusses the changing ways in which fishermen and biologists framed the Sea Lamprey as a problematic species. Abstract: During the late 1930s, Great Lakes...
by octopusgarden | Oct 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Recently, Raf De Bont’s monograph Nature’s Diplomats appeared with the University of Pittsburgh Press. The book explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade...
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