Chinese Animal Studies Network
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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.
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There's still time to submit abstracts for the upcoming conference "Whales and Humans: Past Entanglements and Current Relations" (University of Iceland, 22-23 June 2026)! Proposals should be sent in by 21 December. Find out more, incl. ECR travel grants, at the link below 🐋🐳🐋
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Whales and Humans: Past Entanglements and Current Relations International Conference at the University of Iceland, June 22 – 23, 2026Scholarship on the relationship between humans and whales around th...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
There's still time to submit abstracts for the upcoming conference "Whales and Humans: Past Entanglements and Current Relations" (University of Iceland, 22-23 June 2026)! Proposals should be sent in by 21 December. Find out more, incl. ECR travel grants, at the link below 🐋🐳🐋
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November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Our third free online seminar of the year is next Wednesday the 10th, 8pm (GMT +0).
Nisha Bhakat @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social will be evaluating what we know about the critically endangered Bengal Florican from archival sources, colonial publications and modern science. All are welcome. 🪶💚
Nisha Bhakat @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social will be evaluating what we know about the critically endangered Bengal Florican from archival sources, colonial publications and modern science. All are welcome. 🪶💚
On the 10th of December 2025 @ 8pm (GMT/UTC +0), Nisha Bhakat will be giving a talk on: 'The Fall of a Florican: Two hundred years of hunting, studying, and conserving Houbaropsis bengalensis' 🪶🇮🇳
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AHG Seminar - 10 December : The Fall of a Florican
Join us for our monthly seminar series.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Our third free online seminar of the year is next Wednesday the 10th, 8pm (GMT +0).
Nisha Bhakat @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social will be evaluating what we know about the critically endangered Bengal Florican from archival sources, colonial publications and modern science. All are welcome. 🪶💚
Nisha Bhakat @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social will be evaluating what we know about the critically endangered Bengal Florican from archival sources, colonial publications and modern science. All are welcome. 🪶💚
And we also found out more about the recent workshop "Humains et Non-Humains: Chine, Corée, Japon et Vietnam" in our latest Field Report! 🌿🐆🐒
#animalhistory
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#animalhistory
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December 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And we also found out more about the recent workshop "Humains et Non-Humains: Chine, Corée, Japon et Vietnam" in our latest Field Report! 🌿🐆🐒
#animalhistory
chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/field-report...
#animalhistory
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We interviewed Meir Shahar in our latest Talking Animals feature to learn more about his research on Horse and Ox Kings, rural religion, and the hardworking donkey in Chinese history 🐎🐂🐃 #animalhistory
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December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We interviewed Meir Shahar in our latest Talking Animals feature to learn more about his research on Horse and Ox Kings, rural religion, and the hardworking donkey in Chinese history 🐎🐂🐃 #animalhistory
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Upcoming conference "Climate Change and Emerging Contaminants: Risks and Responses in Asia and Beyond" (9-10 April 2026 University at Buffalo, NY). Abstracts due by 12 December if interested! 🌿
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www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitut...
Climate Change and Emerging Contaminants: Risks and Responses in Asia and Beyond
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November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Upcoming conference "Climate Change and Emerging Contaminants: Risks and Responses in Asia and Beyond" (9-10 April 2026 University at Buffalo, NY). Abstracts due by 12 December if interested! 🌿
www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitut...
www.buffalo.edu/asiainstitut...
Another excellent issue of Animal History is now available! This issue includes an exciting article on mules as vital transport in Yunnan 🐎🐂🐂 #animalhistory
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Another excellent issue of Animal History is now available! This issue includes an exciting article on mules as vital transport in Yunnan 🐎🐂🐂 #animalhistory
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
This event may be of interest to anyone working on pets in Asia! #animalhistory 🐈🐩🐈⬛
Onsite only lecture in Vienna by DIJ's @barbtokyo.bsky.social
"Pets in Contemporary Japan: Between Commodification, Family Membership, and Animal Welfare Challenges"
🏚️ University of Vienna @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social
📅 19 Nov 2025, 18–20h CET
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"Pets in Contemporary Japan: Between Commodification, Family Membership, and Animal Welfare Challenges"
🏚️ University of Vienna @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social
📅 19 Nov 2025, 18–20h CET
▶️ www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-detail...
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This event may be of interest to anyone working on pets in Asia! #animalhistory 🐈🐩🐈⬛
ICYMI the Catholic University of Eichstätt is hosting "(De)Constructing Identities? Animals in Literature" with the University of Bamberg on 13-15 November. 🦊🐰🐻
Talks are all in German, programme available here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Talks are all in German, programme available here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
"(De)Constructing identities? Animals in Literature" | H-Net
The interdisciplinary conference (De)Constructing identities? Animals in Literature, which will take place from November 13 to 15, 2025, at the Catholic University of Eichstätt in cooperation with the...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
ICYMI the Catholic University of Eichstätt is hosting "(De)Constructing Identities? Animals in Literature" with the University of Bamberg on 13-15 November. 🦊🐰🐻
Talks are all in German, programme available here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Talks are all in German, programme available here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
A quick reminder to apply for a range of @aseh.bsky.social environmental history research prizes by 20 November. See the link below for more info! 🌿🐂🐏🐄
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
American Society for Environmental History - Prizes for Scholarship
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November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A quick reminder to apply for a range of @aseh.bsky.social environmental history research prizes by 20 November. See the link below for more info! 🌿🐂🐏🐄
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
Panellists wanted for "Zoos in the Peripheries" at HSS/ESHS 2026! The panel focuses on how non-Western zoos (broadly defined) adapted, modified, or innovated established practices.
Send an abstract and title by 20 November to Oliver Hochadel and Marianna Szczygielska 🌿🐼🦁 #animalhistory
Send an abstract and title by 20 November to Oliver Hochadel and Marianna Szczygielska 🌿🐼🦁 #animalhistory
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November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Panellists wanted for "Zoos in the Peripheries" at HSS/ESHS 2026! The panel focuses on how non-Western zoos (broadly defined) adapted, modified, or innovated established practices.
Send an abstract and title by 20 November to Oliver Hochadel and Marianna Szczygielska 🌿🐼🦁 #animalhistory
Send an abstract and title by 20 November to Oliver Hochadel and Marianna Szczygielska 🌿🐼🦁 #animalhistory
An exciting upcoming release, currently scheduled for publication in March 2026! 🌿🪶🐊
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover.
Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.
Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An exciting upcoming release, currently scheduled for publication in March 2026! 🌿🪶🐊
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Looks like a great reading group for those interested in natural history + history of collections! 🏛️🌿🦓
Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨
@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Looks like a great reading group for those interested in natural history + history of collections! 🏛️🌿🦓
The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities has an upcoming special issue “Lives in Motion: Animals as Historical and Cultural Agents.” Abstracts due by 1 November, see below for more info! 🦜🪲🦎
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Call for Papers “Lives in Motion: Animals as Historical and Cultural Agents”
| Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities
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October 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities has an upcoming special issue “Lives in Motion: Animals as Historical and Cultural Agents.” Abstracts due by 1 November, see below for more info! 🦜🪲🦎
so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJ...
so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJ...
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Commenting on student papers which analyze the hunting scenes from the Jiuyuangang tombs, I am suddenly confronted with the problem of Bears In Early Chinese Art. So far the students seem pretty uniformly convinced these are rats, which is giving them an odd take on hunting in the late 6th century.
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Commenting on student papers which analyze the hunting scenes from the Jiuyuangang tombs, I am suddenly confronted with the problem of Bears In Early Chinese Art. So far the students seem pretty uniformly convinced these are rats, which is giving them an odd take on hunting in the late 6th century.
CfP for a panel on Chinese Animal Studies at the upcoming EACS in Venice 21-25 July 2026! See below for more info, proposals due by 16 November 🐳🦋🐰 #animalhistory
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
CfP for a panel on Chinese Animal Studies at the upcoming EACS in Venice 21-25 July 2026! See below for more info, proposals due by 16 November 🐳🦋🐰 #animalhistory
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Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317
Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon)
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :Laurent Chircop-Reyes (5 octobre 2025). Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS ...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317
A great opportunity for ECRs to get involved in the European Society for Environmental History! 🌿🪲🦎
Call for Applications
The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
Please find the more detailed call text attached.
The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
Please find the more detailed call text attached.
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A great opportunity for ECRs to get involved in the European Society for Environmental History! 🌿🪲🦎
Another great line-up of online animal history seminars organised by the Animal History Group! 🐎🦓🦌 #animalhistory
Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚
Seminar Series
Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…
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October 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Another great line-up of online animal history seminars organised by the Animal History Group! 🐎🦓🦌 #animalhistory
We are delighted to hear from the organisers of the recent "Animals in Co-Becoming" workshop held this September at National Sun Yat-sen University. Read more about the workshop and future developments here! 🦋🦚🦎 #animalhistory
chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/field-report...
chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/field-report...
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We are delighted to hear from the organisers of the recent "Animals in Co-Becoming" workshop held this September at National Sun Yat-sen University. Read more about the workshop and future developments here! 🦋🦚🦎 #animalhistory
chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/field-report...
chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/field-report...
Call to submit papers to the Environmental Graduate Symposium at Yale University! Link to submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Call to submit papers to the Environmental Graduate Symposium at Yale University! Link to submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CfP for an exciting animal panel at the upcoming Association of Art History Conference (University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026). A great opportunity for Chinese animal / art scholars! 🎨🐝🐸
September 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
CfP for an exciting animal panel at the upcoming Association of Art History Conference (University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026). A great opportunity for Chinese animal / art scholars! 🎨🐝🐸
The Equine History Collective is hosting an online conference 26-27 September on horse senses, see the link below for the programme and registration form! 🐎 #animalhistory 🏇
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EHC 2025: Horse Sense & Sensibility
Registration & Conference Schedule Click here for registration EHC 2025 Online Conference Schedule (All times Eastern Time) Friday, September 26 Morning Coffee Zoom Session 8:30 – 9:00am …
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September 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Equine History Collective is hosting an online conference 26-27 September on horse senses, see the link below for the programme and registration form! 🐎 #animalhistory 🏇
equinehistory.org/2025/09/05/e...
equinehistory.org/2025/09/05/e...
An excellent addition to our knowledge of the #animalhistory of the Mongolian plateau! 🐎
Excited to say that my new article for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, "Animal History of the Mongolian Plateau", is out!
#tengri #mongolsky #envhist #animalhistory
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#tengri #mongolsky #envhist #animalhistory
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September 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
An excellent addition to our knowledge of the #animalhistory of the Mongolian plateau! 🐎
In case you missed it, the latest issue of #AnimalHistory is now available! Huge variety of topics and animals discussed 🪰🦁🐺
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3
Volume 1 Issue 3 | Animal History | University of California Press
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September 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In case you missed it, the latest issue of #AnimalHistory is now available! Huge variety of topics and animals discussed 🪰🦁🐺
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3