Moving Animals

Panel at EASST-4S 2024

Panel at EASST-4S 2024

Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick co-organized a panel at the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), EASST-42 held in Amsterdam. Their panel,...
Presentation at POLLEN24

Presentation at POLLEN24

This week, Monica Vasile presented a paper at POLLEN24, the Political Ecology Network’s Biennial Conference. The global conference was held in Lund, Sweden, Dodoma, Tanzania, and Lima, Peru. Vasile’s paper, “Przewalski’s Horses: Hoofing the Trail of...
Article in Science in Context

Article in Science in Context

Simone Schleper has an article, “Victims and diplomats: European white stork conservation efforts, animal representations, and images of expertise in postwar ornithology,” in the latest online issue of Science in Context. Abstract: This article discusses...
Lecture at University of Cologne

Lecture at University of Cologne

On 7 June, Raf De Bont gave a lecture at the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne, entitled ‘Moving Animals and Computerized Arks: Wildlife Logistics in the Anthropocene’. The ensuing discussion showed there were important synergies between the work...
Seminar Lecture for Animal History Group

Seminar Lecture for Animal History Group

In May, Vanessa Bateman gave a lecture for the Animal History Group Annual Seminar Series. Her talk, “Saving the American Elk with Camera” discussed her research on the creation of the National Elk Refuge in 1912 by way of photography, and how “the...