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,...

This week, Monica Vasile presented a paper at POLLEN24, the Political Ecology Network's Biennial Conference. The global conference was held in Lund, Sweden, Dodoma, Tanzania, and Lima, Peru. Vasile's paper, "Przewalski’s Horses: Hoofing the Trail of Wildlife...

Simone Schleper has an article, "Victims and diplomats: European white stork conservation efforts, animal representations, and images of expertise in postwar ornithology," in the latest online issue of Science in Context. Abstract: This article discusses two...

On 7 June, Raf De Bont gave a lecture at the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne, entitled ‘Moving Animals and Computerized Arks: Wildlife Logistics in the Anthropocene’. The ensuing discussion showed there were important synergies between the work...

In May, Vanessa Bateman gave a lecture for the Animal History Group Annual Seminar Series. Her talk, "Saving the American Elk with Camera" discussed her research on the creation of the National Elk Refuge in 1912 by way of photography, and how "the visual culture of...

Monica Vasile was invited to give a lecture on the 8th of May on her research on the history of decline and recovery of the Vancouver Island Marmot for a lecture series curated by the Biology Department at the University of Oulu.

In the beginning of May, Monica Vasile attended in Munich the first meeting of the European Conservation Humanities Network, a group of scholars who aim to establish a field of research and engagement that brings approaches from the humanities to bear on the...