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...

In June, Raf De Bont presented a paper at the 10th Gewina Woudschoten Conference 2024. Gewina, is the Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities, and the theme of the conference was "Ecology & Economy: History of Knowledge during the Unequal...

In July, Monica Vasile presented a paper at the "Breedism and Racism: The Ideological Use of the Animal Body since 1800" workshop held at Historisches Kolleg in Munich. The workshop was organized by Moving Animals advisory board member Mieke Roscher, and Monica...

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,...