The Moving Animals project is well represented in the newly published book Gender and Animals in History, Yearbook of Women's History (Amsterdam University Press), edited by Sandra Swart. Vanessa Bateman, Simone Schleper, and Monica Vasile each have a chapter,...

In March, Vanessa Bateman presented new research at the workshop "From Passive Livestock to Untamed Beings Reanimating Animals in the History of Technology" at Technical University Berlin, organized by Christian Zumbrägel. Her paper is based on archival research from...

Moving Animals held a successful event on February 2nd at Naturalis in Leiden. For one evening, historians took over the national museum of natural history and research center on biodiversity with lectures, workshops and demonstrations, and an interview with Tijs...

Monica Vasile has an article in the latest issue of Environment and History titled, "From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison." Read it HERE! Abstract: In the age of the sixth extinction, human interventions to...

Raf De Bont has an article in the next issue of Environmental History. "The Economy of Rarity: Animal-Catching, Cryptozoology, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Zoo" is available ahead of print and open access HERE. Abstract From the mid-twentieth century onward,...

Together Raf De Bont and Simone Schleper have a chapter in the recently published The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, edited by Emily O'Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey, and Sandra Swart. Their chapter "Actor-networks, conservation treaties, and...

Moving Animals is planning a special event at Naturalis in February! On Friday, February 2, "Moving Animals: Wetenschapsfestival in Naturalis" promises to be a fun and educational evening about the history of animals. The evening will include a lecture by Raf De Bont,...

Monica Vasile presented at the IUCN International Conservation Translocation Conference held in Fremantle, Australia, 12-15 November. As the conference website states, "The International Conservation Translocation Conference (ICTC) is a premier conservation...

Last month, Vanessa Bateman presented her research on elk conservation and animal photography at the Western History Association conference in Los Angeles, California. The Bellwether Histories themed panel "Warnings Ignored: Animal Crises in the American West”...

Last week Vanessa Bateman presented her research on documentary animal photography and the formation of the National Elk Refuge in the panel she co-chaired with Maia Nichols, "Activating Animals in the Visual Archive" at the annual conference of the Universities Art...