The SOAS Donkey and Mule Conference

 

A series of international conferences held

on the Island of Hydra [Greece] and the School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS, London]

 

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This is an archive site for the storage of papers presented at our conferences from 2005 to the present day. It is a work in progress, as we digitise and format the papers.

 

Copyright of all papers rests with the authors.

 

2005 Conference [Conference held in Hydra]:

 

1. Programme of the 2005 conference [Download PDF of programme]

 

2. Donkeys in Greece: A review of current status and future trends

Georgios Arsenos and Elias Papadopoulos [School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece] [Download PDF of paper]

 

3. ‘Feral’ donkeys in Western Australia: The Judas Collar program

Jill Bough [University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia]  [Download PDF of paper]

 

The Prophet’s donkey in the Shiite tradition

Khālid Sindāwī [Haifa University]  [Download PDF of paper]

 

4. The story of the donkey Foula and the mule Koula and/or the history of Greece, during Occupation-Resistance and the Civil War (1940-50)

 

Tasoula Vervenioti [Athens] [Download PDF of paper]

 

 

2012 Conference [Conference held at SOAS, London]:

 

1. Programme of the 2012 conference [Download PDF of programme]

 

2. Donkeys and mules in the ‘New World’

John Barker [Independent researcher] [Download PDF of paper]

 

 

2014 Conference [Conference held in Hydra]:

 

1. Programme of the 20014 conference [Download PDF of programme]

 

2. Comparing the physiological and biochemical parameters of mules and hinnies to 

horses and donkeys

 

Amy K. McLean [North Carolina State University] [Download PDF of paper]

 

3. The strange history of the Irish donkey

 

Jim Smyth [Belfast] [Download PDF of paper] [Download PDF of illustrations file]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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