This journal issue seeks to explore concepts and models of sustainable publishing within and beyond Canadian academia ..read more

27 - 28 August 2024 - London, Ontario - Join individuals from five of the leading Canadian history blogs for a workshop on the future of knowledge mobilization and public history online ..read more

To the average museum-goer, a work such as William Hodges’ 1786 A View of the South side of the Fort of Gwalior is likely dull. Even in art history classes, it is not entirely unusual for a professor to express their apathy towards figureless fields and predictable skylines. These works do, however, yield a great deal of information about the ways in which groups of people within certain times observed and connected with their environment. Further, picturesque works of then-colonized landscapes offer considerable insights into the colonial mind. William Hodges, A View of the South side of the ..read more

This is the fourth post in the Succession III: Queering the Environment series, edited by Jessica DeWitt, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Addie Hopes. For this series, contributors were invited to explore ideas of queer rebellion as interruption and resistance. “Would this turtle rather be dead and have its bones kept and honored, or would it rather be alive and drag its tail in the mud?” The two great officers said: “It would rather be alive and drag its tail in the mud.” Zhuangzi said: “Go away! I will drag my tail in the mud.” – Zhuangzi1 There is a pond about a fifteen-minute wal ..read more

This is the fourth post in the NiCHE series Animal Encounters, edited by Heather Green and Caroline Abbott. You can read all posts in this series here. Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are an abundant group of fishes whose distribution extends north from California to Alaska, and south from Russia to Japan. For thousands of years, salmon have fueled ecosystems and played a vital role in the cultural richness of Indigenous Peoples throughout their range. Over the last century and a half, these fishes have supported a lucrative commercial fishery. Yet salmon populations in Canada and the ..read more

This is the third post in the Succession III: Queering the Environment series, edited by Jessica DeWitt, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Addie Hopes. For this series, contributors were invited to explore ideas of queer rebellion as interruption and resistance. On days where I’ve spent too much time working with information instead of my hands, I tear myself away from the screen to get out of my head and back into both body and environment. My usual walk follows Amsterdam’s Westland canal south, cuts west to the Schinkel River, shimmies up a tiny sliver of land (once a tow path, now a ..read more

Demystifying the Hidden Curriculum for New Professors Friday, 2 August – 1:00pm EST – Zoom An ASEH Connects Event Zoom Link Join the Early Career Caucus and Women’s Environmental History Network (WEHN) for a roundtable discussion of tacit knowledge issues and the so-called hidden curriculum new professors face. This event aims to explore the diverse range of experiences of early career scholars, whether due to job type, different forms of privilege, and/or identity. This event is open to anyone who wishes to learn more or reflect on the “hidden curriculum.” We invite senior scholars to share t ..read more

The town of Banff sits at the threshold between the Pacific Northwest and the expansive North American plains. Surrounded by idyllic lakes and mountains, the town evokes popular ideas of the Canadian wilderness. The scenery, geography, and significance of Banff made the town the perfect location for a group of historians from across Canada and the United States to meet for Common and Contested Pasts, a conference held in honour of the retirement of Dr. Ted Binnema, who taught at the University of Northern British Columbia for nearly twenty-five years. The themes and discussions that took place ..read more

This is the third post in the NiCHE series Animal Encounters, edited by Heather Green and Caroline Abbott. You can read all posts in this series here. Farm dogs have left little trace in history, for they were not market commodities nor did they leave a record as pedigreed animals.1 What most farm dogs in North America once looked like would require an extensive study of rural family photographs, but my recollection from the Eastern Townships of Quebec in the 1950s is that many were shaggy and Collie-like, as depicted in Figure 1.2 Figure 1. David Little with Max, Inverness Township, Quebec, 1 ..read more

This is the second post in the Succession III: Queering the Environment series, edited by Jessica DeWitt, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Addie Hopes. For this series, contributors were invited to explore ideas of queer rebellion as interruption and resistance. “Ka aroha atu a Tūtānekai a Tiki; ka mea atu ki a Whakaue, ‘ka mate ahau i te aroha ki toku hoa takatāpui, ki a Tiki.'”1 “Tūtānekai loved Tiki; he said to Whakaue, ‘I am dying from my love for my intimate companion, for Tiki.'” (Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikāheke, Hinemoa) In 2008, Ngahuia Te Awekōtuku presented an important revision of th ..read more