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! 🎨🐝🐸

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...

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

This is a free public event where, I hope, this rather fabulous dodo will be present. I’ll be in conversation with Rachel Webster, who is a curator at Manchester Museum. Places are very limited so please book early in you’re interested. Link to book on the page in the original post.

In case you missed it - an article by Roel Sterckx on fish farming in pre-modern China has been published in the latest issue of T'oung Pao 🐟🐠🐡 Read online here: brill.com/view/journal...

📣A double issue dedicated to #animals, for the first time in the history of the #Annales!🗃️🐈🐄

I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted! Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time. For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/

Looking forward to participating (virtually, alas) in this event at SNU later this week, for anyone interested: www.snu.ac.kr/snunow/event... I'll be sharing a new essay that uses the life and letters of Conrad Totman, pioneer of East Asian environmental history, to map out the state of the field

An AAS 2026 Panel on animal welfare and advocacy in Asia is looking for presenters! Please contact @sevenmattes.bsky.social and @barbtokyo.bsky.social if interested 🐕🐈‍⬛🐁

The latest issue of "International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture" features an article by Katja Triplett on Japanese Buddhist talismans protecting horses 🐎 Its available to read online here: ijbtc.dongguk.edu

The July 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is now available to read online! read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... A quick rundown of all the #envhum content:

Excited to share our recent interview with Fang Wu, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Read more about her research on early Chinese horses here! 🐎 chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/emerging-voi...

New book "The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in the High Qing" is available to pre-order ahead of being published in August! 🌿🦗 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Congratulations to our co-founder @kelseygranger.bsky.social on being featured on BBC R4's In Our Time talking about Chinese dragons! 🐉🐲

Includes an article on late imperial Chinese pests and the duck method by Yubin Shen 🦆🦆🦆

In May we hosted our first workshop on all things animal in East Asia which was a roaring success 🐯 We've posted a report on our website to celebrate, thank you again to all participants! #casn2025 #casnmunster chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/same-and-or-...

The Animal Geography Working Group is hosting an online talk on May 30, 12pm UK Time. Dr Lisa Onaga will present "Where Have All The Silkworms Gone? Finding a Place for Sericulture in Postwar Japan" 🐛 Sign-up below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨ There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨