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

CfP for hybrid conference "Environmental and Economic Challenges in Global Asia" (3-4 April 2026, University of Kansas). If interested, 250-word abstracts are due by 15 January. Find out more below! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Rounding out 2025 with an essay for T'oung Pao discussing recent publications on Chinese animals, including books on talking parrots, sacred oxen, marital camels, and bathing elephants! It's definitely been an exciting year in an exciting field of research 🐉🐘🐫🐃🦜 brill.com/view/journal...

And finally, the upcoming conference "Nature - Animals - War" will be taking place in Dortmund University on 16-18 September. Abstracts for presentations are due by 31 January, see more below 🐎🐜🐕 #animalhistory us.sowi.tu-dortmund.de/en/details/c...

The new journal Anthropocene History will be launching in October 2026, find out more below 🐈‍⬛🐀🐃 #animalhistory www.dukeupress.edu/anthropocene...

And the Journal of Historical Geography is also looking for submissions for its special issue on historical animal geographies - send in abstracts by January 15! 🦎🐬🐿️ #animalhistory www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

2026 already looks like it will be a great year for #animalhistory and #CASN🐲! January highlights include a CfP for a special issue of Études Chinoises on humans and animals in China (pre-modern and contemporary), abstracts due 15 January! 🐎🐒🐈 afec.hypotheses.org/11622

ASEH Launching New Research Grants for Early Career Scholars ASEH will award up to six $500 grants in 2026 to support early career scholars doing research in environmental history. Apply today by following this link: forms.gle/AQXjPeMw5DBa...

Don't miss the chance to submit to Germinate! The winter deadline for our peer reviewed section is December 31st. Submissions are welcome between 1,200 and 2,000 words that connect the environmental present to its past. We're excited to read your work! g-ehr.com/submit/

A reminder that there's still time to apply for the Agricultural History Society prizes 🌿🐎🐂 Submissions are due by 31 December 2025, find out more at the link below! www.aghistorysociety.org/awards

New articles in 出土文獻 on the soon-to-be-published Tsinghua "horse" manuscripts (in vol 15), 5 manuscripts detailing how to evaluate, train, treat, and handle horses.

If you're in London, join us for the final SOAS History Seminar of the semester. Desmond Cheung (SOAS) will speak on Locust Control and State Activism in Ming China. Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm, C426 All welcome! More info: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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 🐋🐳🐋 whales.hi.is

Zhao Mengfu's round sheep and goat, 1300, Mongol Empire. asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

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. 🪶💚

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...

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 chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/talking-anim...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

An exciting upcoming release, currently scheduled for publication in March 2026! 🌿🪶🐊 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

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! 🦜🪲🦎 so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJ...

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

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! 🌿🪲🦎

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...

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! 🎨🐝🐸