Paul Keil
@paulgkeil.bsky.social
Undisciplined ethnographer | Sorry academic
Interested in human beings who are interested in nonhuman beings
BOOK: The Presence of Elephants http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003402985
Research https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Keil
Interested in human beings who are interested in nonhuman beings
BOOK: The Presence of Elephants http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003402985
Research https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Keil
2) As researchers we identified with the porcine activity of rootling. Working with designers we created a website that performs rootling as a method of learning: one that encourages users to re-evaluate the place of playfulness, plotlessness, & heterogenous sources when doing research.
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
2) As researchers we identified with the porcine activity of rootling. Working with designers we created a website that performs rootling as a method of learning: one that encourages users to re-evaluate the place of playfulness, plotlessness, & heterogenous sources when doing research.
Its been about 2 years since we published our multidisciplinary edited volume on human-elephant relations. I'm still impressed with its rich, diverse set of chapters, and the choice to publish OA with IRD
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
October 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Its been about 2 years since we published our multidisciplinary edited volume on human-elephant relations. I'm still impressed with its rich, diverse set of chapters, and the choice to publish OA with IRD
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits
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August 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits
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Their relationship continuously eluded my narrow concepts of hunters and feral pigs, about who they are and who could be & be with. A feral relationship in a domestic space!
Pig-pig was also a charismatic and surprising character that charmed even the hunter despite his best intentions.
Pig-pig was also a charismatic and surprising character that charmed even the hunter despite his best intentions.
August 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Their relationship continuously eluded my narrow concepts of hunters and feral pigs, about who they are and who could be & be with. A feral relationship in a domestic space!
Pig-pig was also a charismatic and surprising character that charmed even the hunter despite his best intentions.
Pig-pig was also a charismatic and surprising character that charmed even the hunter despite his best intentions.
The backbone of my article is a series of interviews with a hunter and an encounter with a young sow who lived with the man (captured as a wild living piglet). She was named Pig-pig and was (is? looks like?) a feral pig
There is a picture of Pig-pig below taking a bath
There is a picture of Pig-pig below taking a bath
August 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The backbone of my article is a series of interviews with a hunter and an encounter with a young sow who lived with the man (captured as a wild living piglet). She was named Pig-pig and was (is? looks like?) a feral pig
There is a picture of Pig-pig below taking a bath
There is a picture of Pig-pig below taking a bath
This photo is a small tribute to the most charismatic cockroach in Europe.
July 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This photo is a small tribute to the most charismatic cockroach in Europe.
I'll be chatting with Susan Harris and Anu Pande about my book for their Indian Animal Studies Collective Table Talk series, tomorrow at 15:00 CET. Looking forward to it!
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March 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I'll be chatting with Susan Harris and Anu Pande about my book for their Indian Animal Studies Collective Table Talk series, tomorrow at 15:00 CET. Looking forward to it!
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and I'm reminded of Werner Herzog
March 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
and I'm reminded of Werner Herzog
after a fantastic talk this week, we have another scheduled in 2 weeks as part of our regular seminar series
Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
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Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
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March 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
after a fantastic talk this week, we have another scheduled in 2 weeks as part of our regular seminar series
Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20
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Next week on Tuesday
Looking forward to this one with @garethenticott.bsky.social
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Looking forward to this one with @garethenticott.bsky.social
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February 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Next week on Tuesday
Looking forward to this one with @garethenticott.bsky.social
Register here: forms.office.com/e/yFU40JQ9Hz
Looking forward to this one with @garethenticott.bsky.social
Register here: forms.office.com/e/yFU40JQ9Hz
just gonna chuck this slide in, any time someone asks me to talk about my research on human-elephant relations
February 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
just gonna chuck this slide in, any time someone asks me to talk about my research on human-elephant relations
Today, 12:30 (CET) I'll be doing a presentation and having a chat with some far better coexistence minds than mine, reflecting on vulnerability and how it can inform methods of studying and ways of conceptualising shared human-elephant worlds.
February 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today, 12:30 (CET) I'll be doing a presentation and having a chat with some far better coexistence minds than mine, reflecting on vulnerability and how it can inform methods of studying and ways of conceptualising shared human-elephant worlds.
His facebook feed was an endless stream with illustrations of William Blake style demons, esoteric diagrams and apocalyptic imagery. He described for me how the object represented the globe and the world's end. I put on my headphones because I was tired.
February 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
His facebook feed was an endless stream with illustrations of William Blake style demons, esoteric diagrams and apocalyptic imagery. He described for me how the object represented the globe and the world's end. I put on my headphones because I was tired.
Finally recovered a couple of purchased but unread/toberead books from Australia
January 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Finally recovered a couple of purchased but unread/toberead books from Australia
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January 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Russell Drysdale's 'Emus in a landscape' (with some non-native, AI embellishments)
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And so ends my short procrastination exercise of adding feral pigs via Photoshop to classic Australian landscape paintings
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And so ends my short procrastination exercise of adding feral pigs via Photoshop to classic Australian landscape paintings
November 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Russell Drysdale's 'Emus in a landscape' (with some non-native, AI embellishments)
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And so ends my short procrastination exercise of adding feral pigs via Photoshop to classic Australian landscape paintings
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And so ends my short procrastination exercise of adding feral pigs via Photoshop to classic Australian landscape paintings
Albert Namatjira's "Other side of Rungutjirpa (Simpson’s Gap), Northern Territory" (with some non-native, AI embellishments)
November 18, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Albert Namatjira's "Other side of Rungutjirpa (Simpson’s Gap), Northern Territory" (with some non-native, AI embellishments)
Ned Kelly (Sidney Nolan, 1946) and Feral Boar (Paul Keil, 2024)
November 18, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Ned Kelly (Sidney Nolan, 1946) and Feral Boar (Paul Keil, 2024)