W2 Professorship

CALL FOR PAPERS Animal Histories: A Decade with Animals Animal History Group International Conference Online, Friday 11th December 2026 AHG26 The Animal History Group is an international network fo…

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...

Join us online for the lecture given by Professor Tomasz Grusiecki, as part of the Early Slavic Studies Association Lecture Series!

Assisting scholars from outside the Boston area in their use of Harvard-Yenching Library collections in their research.

[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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Zoographies chinoises, séance 8

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

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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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...

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

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 ...

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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