Violette Pouillard, PhD in History, is carrying out a second year of reserch on “The Imperial Zoo. The appropriation and conservation of colonia fauna by the Western elites (Uganda, Kenya, congo, 19eS – 1963)” under the supervision of Professors Miles Larmer and William Beinart at the African Studies Center.
Congratulations to our Alumni Ruadhaí Dervan, Mathias Lamberty, Nibedita Mukherjee and Violette Pouillard
The beginning of this academic year has brought some exciting news to several Wiener-Anspach Alumni. We are very grateful for being kept up-to-date with their work and wish them the best for the future. Ruadhaí Dervan, Research Fellow in Mathematics at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, was granted a Royal [...]
“Histoire des zoos par les animaux”, a new book by Violette Pouillard
In this essay, Wiener-Anspach Alumna Violette Pouillard traces the history of zoological gardens from the perspective of animals, focusing on Paris' Jardin des Plantes and on the zoos of London and Antwerpen, from their opening at the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Dr Pouillard was granted [...]