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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. https://chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Jan 10

We send out regular newsletters for Chinese and Animal Studies specialists filled to the brim with publication announcements, the latest CfPs, and upcoming events. You can join our mailing-list here!
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Afec @etudeschinoises.bsky.social · 3d

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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 2d

A great opportunity for ECRs to get involved in the European Society for Environmental History! 🌿🪲🦎

Tanja Riekkinen @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 2d

Another great line-up of online animal history seminars organised by the Animal History Group! 🐎🦓🦌 #animalhistory

Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d

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! 🧵💚

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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 2d

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
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 8d

Call to submit papers to the Environmental Graduate Symposium at Yale University! Link to submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 8d

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! 🎨🐝🐸

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Sep 4

An excellent addition to our knowledge of the #animalhistory of the Mongolian plateau! 🐎

Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

oxfordre.com/asianhistory...

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Volume 1 Issue 3 | Animal History | University of California Press

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Sep 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.

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.

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Discussion Event: Extinction in the Museum

Please join us for a public discussion on 18 September, 6-7:30pm, led by Sadiah Qureshi, historian of extinction and author of Vanished, and Rachel Webster, curator of botany at Manchester Museum.

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Aug 26

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...

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · Aug 22

Le nouveau numéro des Annales est sorti sur @universitypress.cambridge.org
Au programme, un numéro double consacré aux #animaux (pour la première fois dans l'histoire presque centenaire des #Annales).

Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour une présentation détaillée !

▶️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 18

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/

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Aug 6

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 🐕🐈‍⬛🐁

Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture

동국대학교 불교학술원 발행, 불교학 영문 학술지, 역사/문화/사상 등 연구 자료 수록,the International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture, IJBTC

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Jul 30

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:

green/yellow tinted image of fish eggs on the cover of the journal Environmental Humanities

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Jul 17

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! 🐎
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China — Harvard University Press

As the territory of Qing China expanded, so evolved the ways in which birds, beasts, fish, trees, and flowers came to be known in the multilingual empire. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plant...

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Zev Handel @zevhandel.bsky.social · Jul 14

The European Association for Chinese Studies is holding an Autumn School titled "字 and the Search for Universalism", for students and junior scholars working on the history of the Chinese script and the “sinographic sphere”.

Dates: 14–16 November
Location: Nürnberg

sites.google.com/view/eacsaut...

EACS Autumn School

Welcome to the EACS Autumn School 2025

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

Kelsey Granger @kelseygranger.bsky.social · Jun 26

Was amazing to be part of BBC R4's In Our Time talking about all things Dragon 🐲 If you want to know more about the Chinese zodiac, rain dragons, and The Dragon Boat Festival, you can listen online! 🐉
#inourtime #herebedragons #BBCRadio4

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Dragons

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this ubiquitous mythical creature.

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · Jun 17

New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛

The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers."

🔗 bit.ly/amv4025

#HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

Cover of OSIRIS, volume 40. The title reads "Animal Mobilities" in yellow letters on a blue background. Above there is a colorful illustration showing animals and planets on the seabed.

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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · Jun 5

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
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Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social · May 23

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...

Registration Form: AGWG Globalising Animal Geographies Seminar with Dr Lisa Onaga

Where Have All The Silkworms Gone? Finding a Place for Sericulture in Postwar Japan Lisa Onaga, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 12pm 30.05.25 Zoom link to be circulated at a later dat...

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · May 15

📣 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 ✨

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