by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Vanessa Bateman was in Paris in January where she conducted research at Bibliothèque centrale du Jardin des Plantes. This included reading through old issues of sporting and nature periodicals from the early 20th century, and finding visual evidence of the link...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
During November-December 2022 Vincent Bijman spent several weeks in the US and Canada, where he was researching the invasive Sea Lamprey and the Mongoose. He traveled to Washington, D.C., Ann Arbor, Michigan, Toronto, Ontario, and Hawaii. Archives that he visited...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
In September 2022, the Moving Animals team presented their work at the 10th ESHS Conference (European Society for the History of Science) in Brussels. The panel, Genes, Ghosts, and Icons: Networks of (Amateur) Scientists in the Conservation, Collection, and...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
In July 2022, Monica Vasile presented the paper “Thinking with the wild ass: teaching the Przewalski’s horse to move in the Gobi Desert, a contemporary history of conservation science” at the Animal History Group Summer Conference. She shows how humans...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Monica Vasile discusses the problematic, complicated, and ambivalent ‘success story’ of the reintroduction of European bison in Romania and Poland in her Open Access article in the journal Environment and History. “From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency...
by vanessa | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
In June 2022, Monica Vasile did fieldwork on the Przewalski’s horse (takhi in Mongolian) reintroduction. She visited the Gobi B protected area, a nature reserve in Gobi desert (situated in the southwestern part of Mongolia at the border with China), where horses...
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