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university of wisconsin-milwaukee Nigel Rothfels
Presentations Selected Interviews

• "Odyssey with Gretchen Helfrich." National PUblic Radio. Appearance with Rory Browne. June 28, 2004.
  
  
• "Todd Mundt Show." National Public Radio. February 10, 2003.
  
  
• Late Night Live with Phillip Adams." Australian Broadcasting Corporation. January 28, 2003.
  
  
• "WUWM @10 with Dave Edwards." December 2002.
  

Scholarly Presentations

• "Taxidermy and Taxonomy." Invited Speaker. Conference: "Finding Animals: Toward a Comparative History and Theory of Animals." Pennsylvania State University. April-May, 2009.
  
  
• "'The Monotonous Recurrence': Scenes of Hunting and Collecting in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ceylon." Conference: Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Charlotte, North Carolina. November 2008.
  
  
• "In Search of Germans, Butterflies, and History in Papua New Guinea." Invited Speaker. American Geographic Society Library. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 2008.
  
  
• "'The Mirror in the Eye: Making Sense of Elephants." Invited Speaker. University of Oslo. Oslo, Norway. December 2007.
  
  
• "Following the Spoor / Writing History." Invited Speaker. Meeting I: British Animal Studies Network. London. May, 2007.
  
  
• "Engaging the Critics." Invited Speaker. Conference: "Zoo Experiences: The Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conservation." Symposium at the Zoological Society of London. London. May, 2007.
  
  
• Keynote Address. Conference: "The Other Animals: Situating the Non-Human in Russian Culture and History." Virginia Tech and Bates College. Roanoke, Virginia. May, 2007.
  
  
• "Rogue: Understanding Violent Elephants in the Nineteenth Century." Conference: "Victorian Animal." CUNY Graduate Center. New York, New York. May, 2007.
  
  
• "The Elephant in the Room: Animals and History." Invited Speaker. Humanities Centre and History Department. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. March, 2007.
  
  
• "Looking at Elephants." Invited Speaker. Conference: "Envisioning Animals." York University. Toronto, Canada. February, 2007.
  
  
• Keynote Address. Conference "Zoovolution." National Conference of the American Association of Zookeepers. Chicago. September, 2006.
  
  
• "Faking Nature and the Origins of Conservation in Zoos." Invited Speaker. Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx Zoo). New York, New York. July, 2006.
  
  
• "An Historian’s View of Animals." Annual Conference of the Circus Historical Society. Sarasota, Florida. May, 2006.
  
  
• "Animals, History, and Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions." Invited Speaker. Symposium: "Animal Humanities." University of Texas. Austin, Texas. April, 2006.
  
  
• "Looking Back." Invited Speaker: German Historical Institute Symposium: "Animals in History." Cologne, Germany. May, 2005.
  
  
• "Touching." Conference: 20th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. April, 2005.
  
  
• "This Is a Trunk and This Is a Tale: Elephants, Science, and the Humanities." Conference: Society for Literature and Science. Duke University. Raleigh, North Carolina. October, 2004.
  
  
• "Killing Elephants." Conference: North American Victorian Studies Association. University of Indiana. Bloomington, IN. October, 2003.
  
  
• "Creating the Sublime: Animals and Landscape." Invited Speaker. Conference: "Modern German Environmental History in European Perspective." Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Cambridge, MA. May, 2003.
  
  
• "From Elephas horribilis to Elephas sentiens." Invited Speaker. Conference: "Never Forgetting: Elephants and Ethics." Conservation and Research Center. Front Royal, Virginia. March, 2003.
  
  
• "Sex and the Single Primate." Conference: 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference. University of California-Santa Cruz. March, 2003.
  
  
• "Thinking about Elephants." Seminar. University of Wisconsin History of Science Department. Madison, Wisconsin. February, 2003.
  
  
• "Science in the Tierpark: Alexander Sokolowsky." History of Science Society Annual Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November, 2002.
  
  
• "The Revolutions of Hagenbeck." Invited Speaker. Conference: "250 Jahre Zoologischer Garten, Schönbrunn." University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria. October, 2002.
  
  
• "Lota: An Elephant's Life." Conference: "Animal Arenas," ISAZ (International Society of Anthrozoology) Annual Conference. University College, London. London, England. August, 2002.
  
  
• "The Responsibilities of Zoos." Invited Speaker. Panelist with David Hancocks, Joel Parrott, and Ron Kagan. Conference: "The War on Wildlife." Performing Animal Welfare Society. Sacramento, California. May, 2002.
  
  
• "Excelsior: The Birth of the Zoo." Invited Speaker. University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA. April, 2002.
  
  
• "Caring about Lota: An Enlightenment Legacy." Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. Canberra, Australia. July,2001.
  
  
• "Animal Immersion: Examining the Zoological Paradise." Conference: "Representing Animals." Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. April, 2000.
  
  
• "Narrating Captivity." Conference: "Thresholds of Identity in Human and Animal Relationships." University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA. March, 2000.
  
  
• "Technology and Genocide: What the Internet Teaches about the Holocaust." Conference: "Remembrance and Responsibility: Legacies of the Holocaust." University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. May, 1997.
  
  
• "Catching Animals and Animal Catchers." Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey. November, 1996.
  
  
• "German Prehistory and German Identity: Social Darwinism in Weinland's Rulaman" German Studies Association Annual Conference. October, 1996.
  
  
• "The Cultural Body: Tattoos, Piercings, Beauties, and Freaks." Chair and Commentator. American Studies Association Annual Conference. October, 1996.
  
  
• "The Zoo." Commentator. Conference at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey. October, 1996.
  
  
• "Electric Humanists: Virtual and Other Realities for Humanities Scholars at the End of the Century." Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. November, 1995.
  
  
• "Of Bars and Edens: The Commercial Origins of Paradise and the Modern Zoological Garden." Department of the History of Science, History of Biology Workgroup, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. March, 1994.
  
  
• "The Hagenbeck Völkerausstellungen and the Exhibition of Colonial Power." Minda de Gunzburg Center for European History, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. April, 1994.

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