Moving Animals

Upcoming Moving Animals Conference

Upcoming Moving Animals Conference

On January 31, 2025 the Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene conference will be held at Maastricht University. This conference is an opportunity to both reflect on the research conducted over the past five years by the Moving Animals project, as well as hear...
Radio interview on the history of dolphinariums

Radio interview on the history of dolphinariums

Raf De Bont recently gave an interview on the history of dolphinariums with Belgium’s Radio 1 on “De wereld van Sofie.” Listen here! A (translated) synopsis: When did dolphinariums come into existence? And how can the success of all those dolphin...
Panel at Historicidagen (The Historians’ Days)

Panel at Historicidagen (The Historians’ Days)

The Historians’ Days (in Dutch: Historicidagen) was held at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the end of August and featured a Moving Animal’s panel, “The Unruly Animal: Engaging with Animals in the Past.” Vincent...
Fellowship awarded from ESEH

Fellowship awarded from ESEH

Vanessa Bateman was awarded an ESEH-Gale Fellowship in Digital Environmental History from the European Society for Environmental History. She will be using the Gale digital archives and the Gale Digital Humanities Lab to work on her project “Screening Wildlife:...