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Globalizing Wildlife Book Workshop

Globalizing Wildlife Book Workshop

Moving Animals hosted a two-day workshop this month for our book project, Globalizing Wildlife. The workshop brought scholars from around the world (in person and online) to Maastricht University to share their contributions to the volume and discuss what ('wild')...

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Research in New Zealand

Research in New Zealand

Monica Vasile is currently in New Zealand conducting research on the South Island Takahē, a flightless bird and the largest member of the rail family. Indigenous to New Zealand, Takahē were once thought to be extinct until they were dramatically 'rediscovered' in...

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Simone Schleper wins Alice Hamilton Prize!

Simone Schleper wins Alice Hamilton Prize!

At the recent 2023 American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Conference, Simone Schleper was awarded the Alice Hamilton Prize for best article outside the journal Environmental History. Part of her work for the Moving Animals project, Schleper's article...

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Publication in the September Issue of Isis

Publication in the September Issue of Isis

Raf De Bont published the article, "Moving across the Zoo–Field Border: Heini Hediger in Congo," in the September 2022 issue of Isis: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and its Cultural Influences. The article explores "why the Basel zoo...

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Research and Conference Presentation in Paris

Research and Conference Presentation in Paris

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...

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Research in Michigan, Toronto, and Hawaii

Research in Michigan, Toronto, and Hawaii

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...

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