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CASN is an academic network uniting scholars working across the chronological and geographic breadth of China who are interested in animal studies. chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
HPHK blogpost from Dr Catherine S. Chan. //In colonial Asia, the interweaving of native dogs with ‘white’ societal constructions of ‘race’ and ‘class’ was inseparable from two developments: rabies and the introduction of Victorian dog fancy.// hphk.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/09/15/g...
Tong gau outside a house in Penny’s Bay. HPHK: Nigel Spry Collection, DM3263-1-4-10In 1921 Shanghai, a shih-tzu poses at a gathering with a group of foreigners and Eurasians (credit: Hutchinson family Collection, Hn05-078, Historical Photographs of China, University of Bristol
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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Season 9 of The Animal Turn podcast is on "Animals and History." We kick off the season with Sandra Swart discussing "Animals' Cultural Histories." Listen here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s...
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S9E1 | The Animal TurnS9E1: Animals’ Cultural Histories with Sandra Swart S9E1: Animals’ Cultural Histories with Sandra Swart
Claudia speaks with historian Sandra Swart about the importance of recognising animals’ cultural histories. They discuss the maturation of animal history as a field and focus on the cultural histories...
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Did you miss yesterday's book talk with @visualplague.bsky.social on How Plague Got Rats (@hopkinspress.bsky.social, 2026) ? We have recordings in video and audio-only formats for you to catch up like a good rat catcher: 🎥 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... 🎧 newnatures.org/greenhouse/p...
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks #201 with cover of How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic by Christos Lynteris
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ICYMI Tomasz Grusiecki will give an online talk "The Last Aurochs: Zoopolitics, Memorialization, and Early Modern Extinction" on 14 September at 4pm GMT+1. 🐂🌿 Link below to sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-last-a...
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The Last Aurochs: Zoopolitics, Memorialization, and Early Modern Extinction
Join us online for the lecture given by Professor Tomasz Grusiecki, as part of the Early Slavic Studies Association Lecture Series!
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And applications for Henry Luce Foundation-Center for Global Asia Travel Grants are also due by 15 September 🌏✈️📚 More info below: cga.shanghai.nyu.edu/henry-luce-f...
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Henry Luce Foundation–Center for Global Asia Travel Grants, 2026–2027 – Center for Global Asia | NYU Shanghai
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A reminder that applications for Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grants are due by 30 September 🏛️📚 More info below: library.harvard.edu/about/grants...
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Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant | Harvard Library
Assisting scholars from outside the Boston area in their use of Harvard-Yenching Library collections in their research.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 20/08/2026
From 600-year-old anaesthetic to the construction of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, our Chinese #Archaeology collection contains lots of exciting #OpenAccess research! 🏺 Explore thousands of years of #ChineseArchaeology in Antiquity: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Drip-tile roof of a building in the Palace Museum, Beijing, overlaid with the text 'Chinese Archaeology, Antiquity'.
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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 🌿🦁🐻🐯🐾
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Session: Picturing Entanglements: Transcultural Creatures in Medieval Eurasian Art (CAA 115th Annual Conference)Preliminary Program
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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...
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Call for Papers: Oceanic Crossings: Labor, Ecology, and Visual Culture across the Pacific (AAS 2027, Boston, March 18–21) | H-Net
[CFP] Oceanic Crossings: Labor, Ecology, and Visual Culture across the Pacific(AAS 2027, Boston, March 18–21)This panel explores the Pacific as a site of intersecting ecological, economic, and cultura...
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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/...
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Lecture: Brian Lander, "Translating Chinese Texts on Environmental Sources"
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/07/2026
🌿📚 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/...
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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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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...
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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...
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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:
think.taylorandfrancis.com
Conflictual entanglements: negotiating the more-than-human in Chinese urban spaces
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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:
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American Society for Environmental History - ASEH 2027 Call for Proposals
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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:
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Entangled Histories - CFP
📢 Call for Papers: Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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:
projects.tuni.fi
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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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:
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2027 Annual Conference – ASIANetwork
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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/...
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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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SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
⏰ 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...
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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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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
JUST RELEASED - vol. 2, no. 2 online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/2
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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...
crcao.fr
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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CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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.
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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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
An upcoming animal event that may be of interest for comparative studies! 🐾
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Kelsey Granger @kelseygranger.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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 ✉️🛞🐴
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An Equine Archive? Using Excavated Documents to Recover the Entangled Labor of Humans and Horses in China’s Ancient Postal System
This article seeks to expand the history of pre-industrial animal labor beyond the farmyard. Centering on China’s ancient postal system, it approaches a surviving corpus of over 20,000 excavated admin...
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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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 👇
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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...
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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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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...
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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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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...
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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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.
An Excerpt From Fan Li’s “The Chinese Fish Culture Classic” Written in 5th Century China – University of MarylandArtist	
Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145)  wikidata:Q197342
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English: part of the Qingming Scroll
中文(简体): 清明上河图局部
中文(繁體): 清明上河圖局部
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Anthrozooogy as International Practice (AIP) @azconference.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This might be of interest to those working in broader environmental / plant history in East Asia 🌿🪴🌳
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 23/03/2026
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
jobbnorge.no
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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The Animal Turn @theanimalturn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Listen/Read the full animal highlight here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-ext... #TheAnimalHighlight #Huia #MuseumObjects #MuseumCollections @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social #NewZealand #Exitinction
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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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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🚨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!
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Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱 Submit your work now for our Spring issue! We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow. Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research. g-ehr.com/submit/
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
We welcomed in the Year of the Horse by interviewing Roderich Ptak in our latest Talking Animals feature - did you know horses were one of the most frequent maritime imports to Ming China? Find out more below! 🐎🌊🌿 #animalhistory #yearofthehorse chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/talking-anim...
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Another fantastic issue of Animal History #animalhistory is now available! Issue 2.1 includes articles on 1930s Chinese Buddhist magazines, Japanese wildlife conservation, and Transylvanian pigs 🌿🐖🐂 online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1
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Volume 2 Issue 1 | Animal History | University of California Press
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Open Cultural Studies invites article submissions for a special issue "Cultural Studies in the Anthropocene: Encounters with the Nonhuman." Full manuscripts will be due by 28 February 2026. See the link for more info 🌿🐾
degruyterbrill.com
Open Cultural Studies
Open Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different theoretical, geo...
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
There's still time to apply for a Ying-shih Yü Visiting Fellowship for 2-4 months research at NTU Taiwan! Applicants must be an assistant prof. or above based at an academic institution outside Taiwan. Applications due by 28 Feb, find out more at the link below! 🌿🏛️📚
ychch.ntu.edu.tw
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Watch an interview with Meir Shahar, author of KINGS OF OXEN AND HORSES, on The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford podcast. buff.ly/CT4IYDa #buddhiststudies
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Book Notes: Meir Shahar, "Kings of Oxen and Horses"
Meir Shahar talks about the cult worship of the “Ox King” and the “Horse King” in China. Working at the intersection of scriptural studies and field research, Shahar connects the two animal gods back…
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
An exciting special issue on elephants from Humanimalia! 🐘🌿 #animalhistory
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies. We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures. 1
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum
Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We interviewed Jisoo Lee in our latest Emerging Voices feature to learn more about her doctoral research on the art and science of pigeon-keeping in late-imperial and Republican China 🪶🕊️🪺 Find out more at the link below! #animalhistory chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/emerging-voi...
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
TRANSPOSITIONES: Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies, an English- and German-language journal, invites submissions for a special issue "Animals, Ethics, and Cultural Difference: Conflict, Coexistence, and Representation." Abstracts due 10 February, more at link below 🌿🐎🐂
transpositiones.uw.edu.pl
CFP - Transpositiones
Transpositiones Vol. 5, No. 2 (Deadline: 10.02.2026)
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Recent Greenhouse Book Talk with @mmuscolino.bsky.social on Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (2025) is now available to watch online here! 🌿 #greenhousebooktalk @greenhouseuis.net newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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Online book talk: Muscolino, Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People – The Greenhouse Book Talks
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A new article by Laura Boyer on animals in late-imperial shanshu 善書 is now available to read online in Études chinoises 🐈🐕🐿️ #animalhistory www.persee.fr/doc/etchi_07...
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La question animale dans les barèmes de mérites et démérites de la Chine impériale tardive - Persée
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