Kent Animal Humanities Network

We are delighted to host a talk by our @CW_IndiaTrust Writing Fellow Sohini Basak, entitled ‘A Kangaroo in Barrackpore: Inventing fictive forms about 18th-century animals from my hometown’ March 12th, 5-6pm All welcome! 🦘🐢 Please vist: research.kent.ac.uk/kentanimalhuma…

I am delighted to announce that the recording of Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh's keynote speeches at our final conference are now available from this site: rethinking-fables.org.uk/final-conferen… Please have a look and enjoy! 😊

Spotted two majestic Kudus in Camden this Saturday, part of @The__Herds stampede. Incredible to see these creatures come to life & transform the street into a space of powerful storytelling. priviledged to meet them & wishing them a safe journey north. #theherds #climateaction

Check out @susanpoet ’s powerful poem sequence ‘The Sack and the Selki’e — a moving exploration of how plastic pollution is affecting seals. Huge thanks again to Susan for writing this amazing piece for the ‘Rethinking Fables’ project. 😊🦭youtu.be/vQ1wfvlUcWU

Just wrapped 3 incredible days at the Rethinking Fables final conference! Huge thanks to our amazing speakers, attendees & performers who made this truly unforgettable. So many fabulous things happened during this conference 😊

The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference is happening now! Please join us if you can. 🙂Please check out our online resources/exhibition (just launched) rethinking-fables.org.uk

The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference kicks off tomorrow (May 22-24). Big thanks to the speakers — really excited to meet you soon! research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

Tickets are now available for the Rethinking Fables storytelling event on May 24, 2025 (6–8pm), featuring Indian fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, a fable-in-music performance, and other fables. If you're near Canterbury, come along and spread the word! thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/rethink…

New episode! @JoshLMilburn speaks to @EttieWaterman about the history of red kites in Britain and the open access @UCLpress book The Hand That Feeds: The Complex Relations of Human–Animal Feeding, which she co-edited. #animalstudies #zooarchaeology knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-237-th…

Registration is still open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22–24, 2025, U of Kent & online), featuring keynote speakers Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh. Please join us ! 🙂 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

We are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new studentship, as part of the E3 Sharing Space for Nature initiative 🎉🌱 'Understanding and optimising local nature recovery networks in England' ➡️ Apply now: kent.ac.uk/durrell-instit… #ukscholarships #conservationscholarships

Please take a look at my conversation with the fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, ‘Birds Talk Back’. Your thoughts and comments are most welcome! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

Registration is open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22-24, 2025: University of Kent, Canterbury UK & online) with Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Please spread the word. research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

Registration is open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22-24, 2025: U of Kent, Canterbury UK & online) with Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Please spread the word - we'd be delighted if you can join us. research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

We are delighted to announce that Suniti Namjoshi, the distinguished fabulist and author of The Blue Donkey Fables (1988), Aesop the Fox (2018) and many other fables, will be taking part in the event. Please visit research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

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These are dark & disconcerting times for the environment & our future. I'm reposting 'Call for Fables'. Drop us a line if you can think of a fable that speaks to you at this moment (& please try writing a fable yourself to make sense of what’s happening) research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fab…

The recordings of the 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' symposium (26 July 2024) are now available. cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/07/2… Thanks so much again to Prof Chris Danta and #ANU School of #Cybernetics for organising this in collaboration with us! @English_ANU 🙂

At our #AnimalHistory seminar next week we'll be joined by Neil Ward to hear about 'A More-Than-Human Geography of Equine Britain'. 🗓️ Wednesday 11 December 🕖 7pm (GMT) 📍 Online 🎟️ Free, all welcome Register your free spot today via our website: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-series/