CfP for a panel on "Transcultural Creatures in Medieval Eurasian Art" at the in-person CAA 2027 (3-6 Feb 2027, NY). More info at the link below, where you can submit proposals by 31 August 🌿🦁🐻🐯🐾

CfP for an AAS 2027 panel on "Oceanic Crossings across the Pacific" with scope for maritime histories, blue humanities, and marine animal histories. Proposals due by July 31 🌊🐳🦈 More info below: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

New Research! "An Equine Archive? Using Excavated Documents to Recover the Entangled Labor of Humans and Horses in China's Ancient Postal System" by Kelsey Granger (photo Gary Todd/Wikimedia Commons) online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/2

ICYMI Brian Lander will be giving a hybrid lecture "Translating Chinese Texts on Environmental Sources" at Tübingen University tomorrow, 16 July. See the link below for more info, including the Zoom link 🌿🪲🐊 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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And we also hear from Chiara Bocci in our latest Talking Animals feature about her research on Chinese animal lore, including Song-period “pufferfish mania,” intelligent earthworms, and the magical properties of rhinoceros horns! #animalhistory 🐟🐛🦏 chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/talking-anim...

We are delighted to interview Yihan Yan in our latest Emerging Voices feature and hear more about her research on dogs navigating urban spaces in contemporary China! #animalhistory 🐕🐕‍🦺🦮 Find out more at the link below: chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/emerging-voi...

CfP for a special issue of Green Letters: "Conflictual Entanglements: Negotiating the More-than-Human in Chinese Urban Spaces." Abstracts due by 15 August 🏙️🌳🐕‍🦺 More info at the link below:

CfP for the American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference “Exploring the Roots and Boundaries of a Field” (Richmond VA, 31 March-3 April 2027). Proposals for a range of panels, presentations, and lightning talks are due by 16 August 🌿🐾🐅 More info below:

CfP for the next series of Entangled Histories on the theme “Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space.” These talks are all online. Abstracts due by 31 August 🌿🌊🗺️ More info below:

Entangled Histories - CFP

📢 Call for Papers: Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027

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Symposium on the "Political Economy of Meat" (8-9 October, Tampere University, Finland) invites historians and other scholars with a historical perspective to explore the political economy of meat production from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Abstracts due by 31 August 🌿 More info below:

Call for Papers: Symposium on the Political Economy of Meat | Making the Modern ‘Meat Complex’ | Tampere Universities

This symposium invites historians and other scholars with a historical perspective to explore the political economy of meat production from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. The event is schedule...

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CfP for the ASIANetwork conference “Crossing Currents: Confluences, Conflicts, and Connections” (16-18 April 2027, Seattle University), a theme evoking transpacific oceanic flows and environmental currents as both metaphors and material forces. Proposals due by August 31 🌊🐳🐟 More info below:

Deeply enticing CFP: Feminanimals: women as/and animals - April 2027 in Oxford, with the fabulous Fanny Clemente and Greta Colombani organising and Kaori Nagai and Chloe Taylor as keynotes - www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2027/...

FEMINANIMALS: Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media

FEMINANIMALS is a three-day international conference investigating representations of women as non-human animals and of the relationship between women and non-human animals in literature, arts, and ot...

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⏰ Time is running out! Registration for our Summer Meeting @zslofficial.bsky.social closes on ✨Friday 12 June✨ Join us and learn about the early history of TV and radio at the zoo, celebrity animals and the history of women in zoology 📺🦛👩‍🔬 Find out more 👇 shnh.org.uk/news/registr...

Registration Open for SHNH & ZSL Summer Meeting 2026 The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World - Society for the History of Natural History

This three-day international meeting, held in SHNH’s 90th year, will mark the bicentenary of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and delve into its history and impact on our knowledge of the natura...

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JUST RELEASED - vol. 2, no. 2 online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/2

Upcoming event on 11 June in Paris, where Frederic Devienne will present on Chinese mastiffs 🐕 Sign-up link below for the talk (in French), in-person 6pm at Université Paris-Cité: www.crcao.fr/2026/05/22/l...

Le Molosse Ao 獒 et ses semblables : Faits et légendes sur les chiens mastiffs en Chine - Actualités - CRCAO

Zoographies chinoises, séance 8

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In the peaceful atmosphere of the Rustpunt, 25 scholars from all over the world debated the importance of cattle frontiers, cattle commodification processes and bovine commodities in and for global history. The programme can be found at www.cattlefrontiers.eu/workshops.

Workshops - (Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers

Workshops - (Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa (1870s–1970s)

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An upcoming animal event that may be of interest for comparative studies! 🐾

Medieval Art Research@medartres.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join UCL for the interdisciplinary seminar 'Inventing Animals - Inventing Humans' with Pierre-Olivier Dittmar. 📍UCL, Moot Court, Bentham House 📅 1 June 2026 🕜 13:45–17:00 (BST)

Thrilled that my article on postal horses in ancient China has been published in the latest #AnimalHistory! 🐎 What do excavated administrative texts from 1st C. BCE-CE tell us about equine life and labour on the edge of empire? A lot, it turns out! (1/4) #Xuanquan #postalhorses ✉️🛞🐴

if you happen to be 1) interested in Korea; 2) interested in the environmental humanities; and 3) in SoCal in early June, please consider coming to a conference I've organized with my dear colleagues Eleana Kim, Albert Park, and Juwon Lee. Details 👇

An upcoming Chinese Business History webinar will be looking at mule carts in 1950s Beijing - register for Yujie Li's talk at the link below 🫏🛞🛞 hku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Mule Carts in Beijing: Knowledge and Ignorance in Transportation Planning in the 1950s. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joini...

*By registering to this event, you agree to receive The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ (IHSS) related materials, including IHSS event notices. You can also update your pre...

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A new article by Siran Liang on yaks, milking, and the embodiment of learning between humans and animals has been published in Suomen Anthropologi 🐂🌿 doi.org/10.30676/jfa...

How to Milk a Yak: Embodied Learning with Yaks in Practice

This essay is based on an ethnographic study at a self-subsistence-oriented yak herding village in Tibet (Tibetan Autonomous Region, China). I demonstrate how the social-biophysical profile and the li...

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We are delighted to interview Kayo Yokoyama in our latest Emerging Voices feature and hear more about her research on animal welfare movements in China and Japan throughout the 20thC! #animalhistory 🌿🐈🐕🌿 chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/emerging-voi...

Depiction of 10th century fish farming in China. From the scroll "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Made was a Chinese painter Zhang Zeduanof the Song dynasty. Showing life in Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng Henan province) during the Northern Song period.

Students of #Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies and related fields are invited to apply to present at Anthrozoology as International Practice (AIP). #AIP2026 is free, online, and a perfect opportunity for first-time presenters. anthrozoologyconference.com

CfP: "Burning, Biting, Blooming: Rethinking Politics Across the Range of More-Than-Human Struggles" at Charles University in Prague, 5-6 November. Deadline: 15 May. resisterra.org/en/materials

This might be of interest to those working in broader environmental / plant history in East Asia 🌿🪴🌳

MancHSTM@manchstm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please join us on 29 April 2026 for PLANTS, an online workshop and the third event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia. #HistSTM blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

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Listen/Read the full animal highlight here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-ext... #TheAnimalHighlight #Huia #MuseumObjects #MuseumCollections @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social #NewZealand #Exitinction

The Extinction of the Huia: Birds, Museums and Global Commodification

Welcome to a new Animal Highlights series, where we are exploring relationships between animals, collecting and museums. A lot of this series is based on my doctoral research, which explores bird and ...

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🚨Call for Papers! 3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!