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NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment) is a blog that explores the intersection of history and the environment. Discover articles on environmental history research, historical perspectives on environmental issues, and the role of history in shaping environmental policy. NiCHE aims to foster dialogue and understanding of the historical context of environmental challenges.
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The H-Environment Roundtable team is looking for a new editor and hope members of this list will consider this opportunity. This is an unpaid, volunteer position. It also is a great way to meet and work with a variety of scholars working on environmental subjects, and to help shape conversations about emerging scholarship. The goal of the roundtables is to foster conversation between authors and reviewers. The three editors each pick 3-4 books to feature each year. They assemble a group of 3-4 commenters for each book, edit the comments and the author responses, and write introductions f ..read more
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In March 2024, the NiCHE New Scholars committee held three online panel discussions based on the Arts-Based Research in the Anthropocene (2023) series edited by Amrita DasGupta. You can now watch the recordings on YouTube.
Panel 1: Personal is Political: Research & Curriculum with Kelly Young, Karleen Pendleton, Ellen Bergen, and Nick Koenig Moderated by Amrita DasGupta
Read “In Early Spring: A Curriculum of Awakening” by Kelly Young and Karleen Pendleton
Read “Pleistocene to Anthropocene: A Queer, Underwater Wood-Based Triptych” by Ellen Bergan and Nick Koenig
Panel 2: R ..read more
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The Indian Ocean World Podcast seeks to educate and inform its listeners on topics concerning the relationship between humans and the environment throughout the history of the Indian Ocean World. Today we are featuring three recent environmental-history themed episodes with John Lee and Nienke Boer.
Indian Ocean World Podcast
John Lee – “Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea” & “A State of Ranches and Forests”
In this episode, Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) is joined by Dr. John Lee (Durham) to discuss two recent article-length publications, his 2 ..read more
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From April 3-7 the American Society for Environmental History will hold its annual meeting in Denver. This year there will also be a Virtual ASEH Conference from March 26-30.
For your convenience, we present a round-up of all the Canadian content, as well as content being presented by scholars based in Canada, being presented at both the virtual and in-person ASEH. If we have missed your presentation, panel, or roundtable, please leave us a comment or send a message and we will make sure to add you to the list.
VIRTUAL ASEH CONFERENCE – ONLINE (MARCH 26-30)
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Book Talk – Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography with Siobhan Angus in conversation with Kevin Coleman and Mark Cheetham 27 March 2024 – 5:30-7:00pm EST University of Toronto, Sidney Smith 2098 ..read more
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The Network in Canadian History and Environment is administered by an executive committee. Members of our executive committee also edit and produce content for our website. We are thrilled to announce the addition of Shannon Stunden Bower to our team!
Shannon Stunden Bower
Shannon Stunden Bower is an Associate Professor in the History program at the University of Alberta. Trained in historical geography and environmental history, she now teaches courses in fields including Canadian history, environmental history, and public history. Her research focuses on the environmental history ..read more
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Energy Crisis from the 1970s to Today with Justin Fisher 26 March 2024 – 7:00pm CST Frances Morrison Library, Meeting Room – 311 23rd Street East, Saskatoon Saskatchewan Environmental Society Sustainability Speakers Series
We are living through an energy crisis with global and local dimensions, but not for the first time. Justin Fisher from the University of Saskatchewan History Department will explore the 1970s energy crisis in Saskatchewan, how it relates to our current crisis, and some lessons we might consider.
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2w ago
This is the tenth post in the Winter in Canada series edited by M. Blake Butler and Ben Bradley.
Seasonal recreation homes have a long history in Canada, but for most of that history, “seasonal” has really meant “summer.” Such are the burdens of this country’s winter that many Canadians have chosen to escape the ice and snow by fleeing to resort communities further south.[1] And although ski chalets today represent an important segment of Canada’s recreational property inventory, most date from the late twentieth century onwards. Thus, in a land so defined by winter, it is the summer home that ..read more
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Succession II: Queering the Environment – Rebellion A NiCHE Series Proposal Deadline: April 5, 2024 Series Publication: June 2024 Series Editors: Jessica DeWitt, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Addie Hopes
In ecology, succession is a series of progressive changes made in a community over time. These changes often lead to higher diversity in an environment.
In June 2020, we published the first Succession: Queering the Environment series that explored the changes that occur within environmental history and related environmental studies when queer people, non-humans, systems, and ideas are centre ..read more
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New Horizons for Portuguese Environmental History: An Overview of REPORT(H)A and the New #EnvHist Generation by 6 PhD Candidates 22 March 2024 – 10:00-12:00 WET with Sara Pinto, Ana Isabel Lopes, Paulo Vasconcelos, Manuel Fernandes, Rebeca Baptista, Brigida Baptista, and Jaime Silva ESEH Environmental History Today Webinar Series 2023-2024, Portugal
Register on Zoom ..read more