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Thom van Dooren

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Mourning in a time of planetary crisis: Making room for grief

  • August 19, 2026September 10, 2026
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Crows removing ticks: helpfulness, opportunism, or something else?
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Extinction

Crows removing ticks: helpfulness, opportunism, or something else?

If you’ve spent much time at all watching YouTube videos of corvids, you’ve likely come across some of the numerous examples of them engaging in

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A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
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A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

I am currently finishing work on a new book focused on the disappearing land snails of Hawai’i. While I’ve tried to make all of my books accessible and engaging, this is the first one that I’ve written in a deliberate effort to speak to a general readership.

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Pangolins and Pandemics
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Environmental Humanities Extinction

Pangolins and Pandemics

Our dysfunctional relationships with animals and the broader environment are increasingly creating the conditions for disease like COVID-19.

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Educating ravens, and other stories/essays
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Environmental Humanities Extinction

Educating ravens, and other stories/essays

I published a short article today in The Atlantic on “educational” approaches to conservation that aim to teach “problematic” animals new ways of living –

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A howling lamentation
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A howling lamentation

This text, co-authored with Isabelle Stengers, is a preface for the forthcoming French translation of Deborah Bird Rose’s Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction.

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Curating with care: A response to Michael Wang’s “Extinct in the Wild”
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Curating with care: A response to Michael Wang’s “Extinct in the Wild”

This blog post is the text of a short article written for the magazine of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, focused on Extinct in the

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HumanNature: The Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series
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HumanNature: The Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series

We have just finalised the lineup for HumanNature, the inaugural Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series. The series includes nine esteemed international and domestic speakers. There

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The Participatory Environmental Humanities – workshop
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The Participatory Environmental Humanities – workshop

Last month we held a workshop at UNSW on the Participatory Environmental Humanities. The workshop explored some of the many public faces of the Environmental

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New Book : Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
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New Book : Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

I’m delighted to announce that our new book is now out: Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations. This collection was co-edited by Deborah

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Multispecies Studies (edited collection)
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Multispecies Studies (edited collection)

This week our new special issue on “Multispecies Studies” appeared in Environmental Humanities. The issue was co-edited by six of us: Thom van Dooren, Ursula

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