Historian, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations Edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew. Foreword by Cary Wolfe Columbia University Press, 2017 Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring
Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship By Monica Mattfeld Penn State UP (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures), 2016 In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of
This looks very good!! CFP: Animal History Group (London) Summer Workshop
Packy has died. An extraordinary being. http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/02/packy_the_much-loved_oregon_zo.html
Daniel Vandersommers has written a very nice post for the AHA Today (the blog of the American Historical Association) about Animals and History. Check it out: http://blog.historians.org/2016/11/animal-turn-history/.
A nice review of Elephant House has appeared in the Shepherd Express by David Luhrssen: http://shepherdexpress.com/article-28699-elephant-house-%28pennsylvania-state-university-press%29-by-dick-blau-and-nigel-rothfels.html
CALL FOR PAPERS Oceans and Deserts 2017: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral
Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia Edited by Piers Locke and Jane Buckingham Oxford University Press, 2016 This new book arises from an international symposium that took place at the University of Canterbury in 2013. It
CALL FOR PAPERS for Seeing with Animals Conference The Seeing with Animals conference will run in conjunction with the Living with Animals conference at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, from March 22-26, 2017. The theme of this year’s conference is Co-Existence.http://livingwithanimals.eku.edu
Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death by Margo DeMello Michigan State University (Animal Turn Series) We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the
