Online Submission Form for ESEH Conference, Finland 28 June – 2 July 2011

AdamCrymble — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:57:12 -0500

Deadline: May 3, 2010

An online submission form for proposals to the 6th ESEH Conference has been opened at: http://eseh2011.utu.fi/cfp [ Click here to read more » ]

Signs of the Season Photo Contest

LauraCameron — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:05:49 -0500

Many in Canada's eastern provinces are beginning to see robins and snowdrops - the first signs of Spring; some westerners are already seeing daffodils. Of course seasonal signs are the result of many factors - including your place on the globe, your cultural and historical contexts as well as changing climates and migration patterns. Costa Rica is heading into rainy season come May. In Australia March is the beginning of Autumn. [ Click here to read more » ]

Lucier and the Migratory Potentials of Sound

LauraCameron — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:55:47 -0500

Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations. Since the mid-1960s, Lucier has been a pioneering force in music and sound art, whether working with a brainwave-activated percussion orchestra, traditional chamber ensembles or the migratory potential of recorded environments. Lucier's thoughtful and poetic work often engages with the ‘natural’ world and cuts across many disciplinary boundaries. In October 2009 he spoke to a class of geographers studying concepts of ‘nature’. [ Click here to read more » ]

Book launches at ASEH in Portland

AdamCrymble — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:13:18 -0500

Two new books will be launched at the upcoming American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) conference in Portland.

The first, Joy Parr's new book, Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003, will be launched at the UBC Press & UWP ASEH Booth on Thursday, March 11 from 3-4pm. Light beverages will be provided. [ Click here to read more » ]

Talk: Native Plant Society of British Columbia.

DavidBrownstein — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:23:12 -0500

The Native Plant Society of BC presents: Women Botanists of Western North America.

Linda Jennings
Thursday, March 4. Van Dusen Botanical Garden, Cedar Room @ 7 p.m.
5251 Oak Street @ 37th Avenue
Vancouver BC
Free Admission.

Learn a few rules of "sex" nomenclature and how to recognize if a plant is named after a male or female. Then, hear stories about some of the earliest and most known North American female botanists such as Kate Brandegee, Alice Eastwood and Lilia Leech, their plant discoveries and how they changed our understanding of the botanical world. [ Click here to read more » ]

Field School in the Gaspé‏

AdamCrymble — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:34:36 -0500

Registration: March8, 2010

2010 Edition

The Summer Field School in Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes, to be held in the Gaspe Peninsula, Québec, Canada from 17 May to 4 June 2010, is now accepting registrations. [ Click here to read more » ]

Website Upgrades this Week

AdamCrymble — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:19:07 -0500

We are going to be upgrading our system this week, so you may notice the site unavailable for periods between Friday and Monday. We hope to have the process complete by early next week and all services back to normal (or better than normal!)

Thank you for your patience.

Deadline for CHESS is approaching

AdamCrymble — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:12:57 -0500

Deadline: February 28, 2010
Event: May 27-29, 2010 [ Click here to read more » ]

Best Essay in Canadian Historical Geography Award

AdamCrymble — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:58:30 -0500

Deadline: May 3, 2010

David Rossiter of Western Washington University, recently announced the following award on the CAG list. It may be of general interest to members of NiCHE:

The Best Essay in Canadian Historical Geography Award is awarded annually for the best essay in Canadian historical geography written by an undergraduate student, Masters student, or recently graduated undergraduate or Masters student. [ Click here to read more » ]

Call for Papers: Environmental Histories of the North: Landscapes, Voices, Traditions

AdamCrymble — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:37:35 -0500

Deadline: March 22, 2010
Event: October 14-15, 2010

A workshop of the Nordic Environmental History Network (NEHN)
Sponsored by Nordforsk and NiCHE
Stockholm, Sweden [ Click here to read more » ]

Call for Papers WHEATS 2010: Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology & Science

AdamCrymble — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:04:11 -0500

Deadline: April 15, 2010
Event: October 8-10, 2010
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE)
Madison, Wisconsin [ Click here to read more » ]

NiCHE funding for First ESEH Summer School

StephaneCastonguay — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:50:26 -0500

Deadline: March 30, 2010
Event: June 28 - July 2, 2010; Versailles, France

As one of the sponsor of the First ESEH Summer School "Events, disasters, narratives and temporalities in environmental history," NiCHE will enable five Canadian scholars to participate to that event. Grants cover travel costs, fields trips, accommodation, lunch and dinner. [ Click here to read more » ]

Need to Use Our Logo? Please Follow the New Guidelines

AdamCrymble — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:57:58 -0500

NiCHE has released a new set of logos and guidelines for proper use. Old or low quality logos should be discarded and replaced with the newer versions. The full range of logos and the instructions can be found at http://niche-canada.org/logo

Thank you for your cooperation as we endeavour to build NiCHE's public image in the wider community.

European Summer School in Environmental History (Versailles)

StephaneCastonguay — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:26:52 -0500

Event Date:
June 28 2010 - July 2 2010

For more information, see the original announcement

European Summer School in Environmental History (Versailles)

StephaneCastonguay — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:25:11 -0500

Event Date: June 28 2010 - July 2 2010

"Events, disasters, narratives and temporalities in environmental history"

This event is organized by Kindunos (www.histoire-environnementale.com/) and sponsored by Sciences Po – Scientific humanities chair (Bruno Latour), NiCHE, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Ministère de l’Ecologie, de l’Energie, du Développement Durable et de la Mer (MEEDDM) chargé des technologies vertes et des négociations sur le climat. The language of the summer school will be English [ Click here to read more » ]

Programming Historian Available as PDF

AdamCrymble — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:21:07 -0500

Thanks to Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, an environmental historian post-doc at Università degli Studi di Trento in Italy, the Programming Historian (1st ed.) is now available for download as a PDF. This should make it easier to follow along with for those who prefer a hard copy, or to dedicate their browser window to their programming endeavours.

Download the full e-book: The Programming Historian, 1st ed.

Thanks again Wilko!

Environmental History and PEI, June 2010‏

alanMaceachern — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:03:41 -0500

Prince Edward Island and environmental history are both dear to my heart, so I'm writing to tell or remind you of two ways in which these will converge this coming June. [ Click here to read more » ]

Mountain Timber book tour, update 3.

DavidBrownstein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:24:56 -0500

Richard Mackie, author of the book Mountain Timber now has a webpage, which you can find right here, so do take a look.

Richard will be speaking at the Industrial Heritage Society's annual general meeting, in Port Alberni, which takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Echo Centre. You can read all about it in a recent Alberni Valley Times article right here [ Click here to read more » ]

Canadian Historians Should Sign the Public Domain Manifesto

SeanKheraj — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:53:05 -0500

COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, recently produced The Public Domain Manifesto, an omnibus statement on the importance of the public domain for cultural production and community knowledge. Read more about it and its significance for Canadian history here.

Book Launch: Jamie Linton: "What is Water?"

LauraCameron — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:40:51 -0500

Event: Friday Feb. 5, 2010
Grad Club, Queen's University, from 8pm

NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment) 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).

Snacks and Open Stage will be provided (All musicians/poets are welcome to come and sing/celebrate the wonders of water!) [ Click here to read more » ]