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/...

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:

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:

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/...

⏰ 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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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 🌿🪴🌳

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

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

🚨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!

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/

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...

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

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 🌿🐾

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! 🌿🏛️📚

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

An exciting special issue on elephants from Humanimalia! 🐘🌿 #animalhistory

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

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

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...

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 🌿🐎🐂

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...

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...

📢Call for Papers: Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life 🐀 @northernenvhistory.bsky.social Deadline: 31 January 2026 Further details: tinyurl.com/ynwua3em

🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨 Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳 📅1-3 July 2026 🗺️Zoological Society of London Find out how to submit 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...

CFP 📢 Join us for a panel on conservation histories for the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden @eccb26leiden.bsky.social If you're interested, email @georgeholmes.bsky.social or me with an abstract by Feb 9. #envhist #histsci #animalhist #conservationhumanities

There's still time to apply for the Royal Society for Asian Affairs travel awards, which provide up to £2000 for essential research travel. Applications are due by the 31st January! 🌿

CfP for CATTLEFRONTIERS Workshop “Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire” (3-5 June 2026, Ghent University). Send in an abstract of 200-300 words accompanied by a short bio to [email protected] by Friday 23 January 2026! 🐄🐂🐃 #animalhistory

Free seminar next Wednesday, on horses and humans in the 18th century revolutionary American backcountry. All are welcome! 🐎🤠

CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊 Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social

Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!

What better way to start the new year than reading about doggie film stars in China 🐶🎥⭐ #animalhistory