AHG ECR Symposium 2025

Join us on Friday 24 January for an afternoon of online animal history. We’ll have three sessions of diverse papers from early career researchers working in the field of animal history.

The programme is given in UK timings (GMT), but we hope that, wherever you’re based, there will be parts you’ll be able to join us for if not the whole event.

There is no registration fee for the conference but places are limited.

If circumstances change and you are no longer able to attend please do let us know as we anticipate strong interest in the event and hope to accommodate as many people as possible.

12:25 Welcome

12:30 – 1:00pm

Colonial Power and the Indian Gaur: A Study of British Hunting and Conservation Policies in British India
Adith VS, University of Calicut and Vihsal Guatham, Kerala Forest Research Institute

Lunch

2:00 -  3:00pm

The onset of commercial pig production and the transformation of pigs’ spaces, bodies and experiences in Finland, 1900s–1930s
Eeva Nikkilä, University of Turku

Images and Myths of Giraffe in Early Modern Chinese World Geography
Dong Han, University of Warwick and Xianglong Zhu, University of Cambridge

Break

3:30-4:30pm

Shall Pigs be Huge as Elephants: Transnational Making of Pig Experiments in Mao’s China
Hairong Huang, University  of Toronto

Navigating New Pastures: Introduction and Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Alaska and the Northwest Territories
Mervi Salo, University of Saskatchewan and University of Tromsø-Arctic University of Norway

Host or Publisher Animal History Group