Moving Animals at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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...
Article in Environment and History
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...
Article in Environmental History
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,...
Chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
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 Festival at Naturalis in February 2024
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,...
Presentation at 2023 IUCN International Conservation Translocation Conference, Australia
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...
Presentation at Western History Association Conference
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”...
Presentation & Panel at Universities Art Association of Canada
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...
Presentation at Animal History Group Conference 2023
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....
Moving Animals at European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) 2023
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...