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...

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 International Species...

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...

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...

In December, Raf De Bont presented on the cultural ideals and scientific traditions in the history of modern conservation at the Natuurfocus Symposium in Brussels.

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 shows be explained?...

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 Bijman, Raf De Bont,and...

This August, Monica Vasile co-organized a panel, and presented a paper and session at the 4th World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH) held at Oulu University in Finland, where she was a Visiting Fellow this year in the interdisciplinary programme Biodiverse...

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: A...

This year's 6-month ESEH NEXTGATe (European Society for Environmental History, Next Generation Action Team) Writing Support Programme wrapped up in June. The programme is a works-in-progress monthly seminar for ERC's in Environmental History with pre-circulated papers...