by Jim Clifford, Josh MacFadyen, and Daniel Macfarlane You’ve probably noticed that more scholars than ever are starting to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and consider geospatial sources in their […]
New Zealand and the Protection of Endemic Species
by David Neufeld New Zealander settlers are practical. Progress – generally understood as economic gain – remains a paramount value. Even so there was an early interest in the protection […]
Happy Returns: Representing New Scholars
by Peter Anderson Back in September Josh MacFadyen invited me to introduce myself as the NiCHE New Scholars rep and to muse about the return to academia. Last week, with […]
Representing Northern Environmental Histories
by Jonathan Luedee The first thing I noticed when I stepped out of Stockholm’s central station was the position of the sun in the sky. It was only slightly after […]
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines and Borders in the Study of Northern Environments
by Isabel Lemus-Lauzon Where does the North begin? Does history solely concern human history? Who is indigenous? These are just a few of the questions and thoughts that came up at the […]
RSC consultations on “Libraries, Archives, and Canada’s Future”
The Royal Society of Canada has convened an expert panel on the future of libraries and archives in Canada. The panel is encouraging interested parties (archives dependent historical geographers/environmental historians?) […]
Nouveau portail des Humanités environnementales
Avec le soutien du ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement Durable et de l’Énergie, l’Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, en collaboration avec le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, lance le site http://humanitesenvironnementales.fr/ Les […]
The Dominion of Nature ~ Inspirations & Motivations
The Speech for the Throne last month concluded by recalling that “our founding Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald said of Canada’s future that he saw ‘a great nation – […]
Northern Media Environments
by Rafico Ruiz Just a few weeks ago, an outstanding group of graduate students as well as junior and senior scholars from across Scandinavia, Russia, the United States and Canada […]
Donation of Journals
This past summer, the Canadian Forest History Preservation Project facilitated the donation of a run of journals. Ordinarily our focus is on unique, primary source materials, but these journals were […]
Opportunities for Graduate Study
Toxic Legacies and Northern Exposures Projects Department of History and Geography Memorial University of Newfoundland 2014-2015 John Sandlos, Department of History, and Arn Keeling, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, […]
Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland
by Tina Loo Apart from an epic visit to the ABBA Museum, one of the memories I have of the recent Northern Nations, Northern Natures workshop in Stockholm comes from […]
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