Collecting, Studying, Controlling Animals in East Asia

International Workshop
The John Rylands Library and Research Institute
150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH
OR online
12 June 2025

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for both in-person and online attendance. 
Eventbrite registration link

Organiser: Dr Amelia Bonea, in collaboration with the John Rylands Research Institute and Manchester China Institute

Join the convenors for an exciting international workshop that explores recent and deep animal histories in East Asia, at their intersections with state power, imperialism, museum practice and gender.
Attendance is free. All welcome. Please register here.

Speakers:

Dr Jaehwan Hyun (Associate Professor in the History of Science, Pusan National University)
Japanese Collectors in Colonial Korea and Memories of Imperial Natural History

Dr Amelia Bonea (Lecturer in Global History of Science, Technology and Medicine, CHSTM, University of Manchester)
Fossil Animals and Imperial Histories in East and South Asia, 1850s-1940s

Dr Hsiao-pei Yen (Assistant Professor, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University)
Fossils, Gender, and the Nation: Mee-mann Chang and Paleontology of Early Vertebrates in Socialist China

Dr Meng Zhang (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, CHSTM, University of Manchester)
Masking Canines in China: Rabies Control, Moral Anxieties, and Blurred Human-Animal Boundaries, 1900s-50s

Moderator: Dr Aya Homei (Reader in Japanese Studies, University of Manchester)