Equine History

If you're here because you have an interest in equine history, and particularly if you are a researcher, take a moment to visit EquineHistory.org

Louis XIV at the Taking of Besancon
by Meulen Adam-Franz van der Meulen, at the Hermitage

Call for Panelists: Equine Sciences at WSECS 2017

   Seeking one or two more panelists for WSECS to be held at UC Santa Barbara Feb. 17&18, 2017. The conference theme is “Eighteenth-Century Science(s).” This panel will consider the ways in which new ideas about how the world did and should work were applied to the equestrian arts. Please contact KatrinBoniface@gmail.com no later than Sept. 28.

Charge! Historic Selection of Equine Panels

  I've had about a year to adjust to the idea that I'm not just going to Leeds, I'm presenting.

     I leave tomorrow, and it's only just sinking in. Really, though, there is no way I could miss this year. Usually, I am alone in presenting on anything equine; this has also been the case for the handful of other scholars in the humanities who look at them. But at this year's IMC Leeds there will be three full panels, a roundtable, and a couple stand alone papers. Not to mention a large assortment of other animal studies works. I am beyond delighted to be a part of this, and can't wait to see what inspirational sparks fly.

Signal Boost: Call For Panelists

"Hi All,

I'm looking to assemble a panel for RMCLAS 2016  (March 30-April 2) in Santa Fe, NM. The panel concerns centering animals within History or other disciplines. My paper analyzes the University of Arizona Insect Collections. I seek to complicate the normative definition of archive as a fixed, static space and analyze the technologies and media used to preserve, display, and portray insect specimens for human understanding and entertainment.

Please contact me via email at dblalock@email.arizona.edu if you are interested in participating. This call for panelists is cross posted to H-Net LatAm, Grad, and Animal.

Thank you,

Danielle Blalock
PhD Student - The University of Arizona
Department of History
http://history.arizona.edu/user/danielle-blalock "

I am working on an equestrian paper for this panel, and we are still looking for one or two more panelists.

Conference Intermission

    I will be at the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference at CalState Stanislaus this weekend speaking about the Hanoverian Creams.