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...

Vincent Bijman presented his research on the history of invasive Sea Lamprey in the Great Lakes at the "Working Across Disciplines on Animal History" conference held by the Animal History Group in partnership with the FIELD Project at the University of Lincoln, UK....

This summer the Moving Animals team participated in the European Society for Environmental History conference (held in Bern, Switzerland) in various ways, including presenting on two panels and participating in the Summer School. [Media clipping from Vincent's...

This August, Raf De Bont was interviewed on the Dutch radio program Wetenschap Vandaag (Science Today) discussing the Moving Animals project. Listen to "Hoe wild is een wild dier nog?" (How Wild is a Wild Animal) here.

This month Vanessa Bateman and Marie Skłodowska–Curie Fellow Tom Quick presented papers at the University of York for the workshop "Fur, Fin and Feather: Commodifying Wild Animals" as part of the British Academy Research Project Commodities of Empire . Tom shared,...

Vanessa Bateman has a chapter in the recently published book Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis edited by Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks with University of Washington Press. "Animal Photography and the 'Elk Problem' in Modern Wyoming"...

In May, Vanessa Bateman traveled to the US for a research trip to several archives in the US, including the University of Minnesota, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the American Heritage Centre at the University of...