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NiCHE brings together historians, geographers, and other researchers who study nature and humans in Canada's past. We offer a forum for the field, support collaboration among scholars, and ensure that this research is shared with policymakers, scientists, and the Canadian public. Read more About NiCHE
Upcoming Activities
| Conference | Environmental Violence and Conflict | Feb 11 2010 - Feb 13 2010 |
| Deadline | Registration: "Time and a Place" - PEI | Feb 15 2010 |
| Deadline | Reaching a Popular Audience Workshop: Vancouver | Feb 15 2010 |
| Deadline | CHESS 2010 (Montreal) Registration | Feb 28 2010 |
| Conference | ASEH Conference - Portland | Mar 10 2010 - Mar 14 2010 |
| Workshop | Reaching a Popular Audience Workshop: Vancouver | Mar 26 2010 |
| CFP | Special Issue on Culture and Sustainable Communities | May 1 2010 |
| CFP | Sixth ESEH Conference | May 3 2010 |
| Conference | SSAC-SEAC Conference | May 26 2010 - May 29 2010 |
| Workshop | CHESS 2010 (Montreal) | May 27 2010 - May 29 2010 |
| Workshop | "Time and a Place" - PEI | Jun 13 2010 - Jun 18 2010 |
| Conference | Animals and Animality Across the Humanities and Social Sciences | Jun 26 2010 - Jun 27 2010 |
| Conference | Sixth ESEH Conference | Jun 28 2010 - Jul 2 2010 |
| CFP | Tourism and Biodiversity and Heritage Dimensions of Tourism and Forestry | Jun 30 2010 |
| Conference | Anglo-American Conference | Jul 1 2010 - Jul 2 2010 |
Featured Project
Recently Added
| Audio File(s) | Preserving History in a Digital Age |
| Conference Archived | Banff Field Trip, October 2009 |
| Conference Archived | Conference Synopsis, Forest History Association of British Columbia. |
| Podcast | Nature's Past Episode 12 |
| Audio File(s) | Oral History Interview with Gerry Burch |
"Banff National Park" by "Liza Piper"
Workshop
By: Liza Piper
Rather than hand out candy to ghouls and goblins last Halloween, a group of faculty and students ventured deep into Banff National Park. While on the trip, four students brought along their travel-ledgers and recorded their tales.
Petition
By Sean Kheraj
Historians know that our work is entirely dependent on access to and availability of sources, especially archival primary sources. Anyone who has spent months (and sometimes years) awaiting approval of a Freedom of Information Act request in Canada knows how frustrating limited access can be.
Publication News
By Laura Cameron
Event: Friday Feb. 5, 2010
Grad Club, Queen's University, from 8pm
NiCHE invites all to come and celebrate the book launch of What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction by Jamie Linton (Published by UBC Press).
Audio Recording
By David Brownstein
At the Forest History Association of BC conference in September, UBC Geography doctoral candidate Emily Jane Davis spoke to the challenges of "Preserving History in a Digital Age"
Workshop
By Adam Crymble
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2010.
Graduate students in Western Canada looking to disseminate their research and ideas to newspapers and magazines are invited to apply for a one-day workshop on March 26, 2010 in Vancouver. Funding is available for some out of town participants.
Workshop
By David Brownstein
NiCHE has just posted an illustrated description of the various field trips and sessions for those who could not attend.
Know Mob
By: Sean Kheraj
After months and months of hype, the long-awaited Apple tablet – the iPad – has arrived.
Reading Group
By: Sean Kheraj
The New Scholars in Canadian History & Environment Reading Group invites all members to participate in the February round. This month we will read through a paper by Jeff Slack, a graduate student from UNBC.
Workshop
By: Anya Zilberstein
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2010.
To apply for CHESS 2010: Send a one-page CV and a brief statement (not to exceed 100 words), indicating the relevance of your intellectual interests to this year’s theme and how you hope to benefit from participation, by email to Anya Zilberstein (anya.zilberstein@concordia.ca).
CFP
By: Nancy Duxbury
Deadline: May 1, 2010
In the face of growing environmental and economic urgencies, issues of sustainability and resiliency are moving to the forefront of planning, policy, and programs in cities and communities of all sizes.
CFP
By: Michael Hall
Deadline: June 30, 2010
The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity and 2011 the International Year of Forests.
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