Animal History Group, UK (Web)
Time: 19.06.2020, 13.30-20.00 BST
Venue: virtual space
Registration by: 12.06.2020
Provisional programme
13.30: Panel One: Pre-modern histories

• Camel-centric relationships between nomadic and sedentary peoples in Roman Syria and Arabia: Josef Bloomfield, Oxford
• Beehives on the Border of Humanity: The Monks of Skellig Michael: Corey Wrenn, Kent
• Royal Animals: Ellinor Gray, Royal Collection Trust
• Animal domestication and the human-animal difference in Buffon’s Natural History: Dario Galvao, Paris and Sao Paulo

15.30: Panel Two: Modern histories

• What Can Merino Sheep Tell About the Ottoman Empire? Breed, Infrastructure, and Local Markets in the Balkans and Western Anatolia, 1800–1850: Anil Askin, Brown University
• ‘the creatures He made’: Animal Welfare in Salvation Army Literature, c. 1890–1930: Flore Janssen, Salvation Army International Heritage Centre
• ‘Desperate Diseases Require Desperate Remedies’: intercommunity cooperation and the interwar investigation of inherited deafness in Bull Terriers: Alison Skipper, London
• Animal Histories in the Dead of Night: Andy Flack, Bristol

17.15: Keynote

• Edward Jenner’s zoological perspective: A new history of vaccination: Abigail Woods, Lincoln
• 18.00–19.00: Animal History Forum

Online registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Delegate packs and meeting links will be sent directly to all registered attendees a few days before the event.
Animal History Group Website: https://animalhistorygroup.wordpress.com/
Source: https://www.ruralhistory.eu/newsletter/2020/rhn-2020-065