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Be sure to check out the new syllabus contributions by Jody Berland, David Herman, Piers Locke, and Michal Pregowski in the Syllabus Exchange!
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Here is an admittedly incomplete list of some recent or forthcoming publications that might be of interest to H-Animalistas:
David G. Brooks, The Grass Library: Essays (Ashland Creek Press, 2020): https://www.ashlandcreekpress.com/books/grasslibrary.html
I would like to share news about a publication that just came out and is relevant to animal studies:
"Signed by a large number of professionals, the Passenger Pigeon Manifesto is a call to public galleries, libraries, archives, and museums to liberate cultural heritage that has already been digitised."
Dear H-Net Community,
Third NEHT Workshop 2021
Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World
The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States
University of Vienna
16-18 September 2021
Keynote:
John McNeill (Georgetown University)
Building the Anthropocene: A Global Environmental History of Industrialization, 1780—1920
Has anyone seen any comments, writings or attributions concerning kindness or cruelty to animals by Henry W. Bellows, pastor of the Unitarian Church in New York, from 1838-1882? He was a founder of the ASPCA. I'd like to locate documented statements from him in the next few weeks. Bernard Unti
