Meetings

Ongoing NiCHE Projects	Workshops
CHESS	Time and a Place - Prince Edward Island (June 2010)
Conference & Workshop Archive	Publishing for a Wide Audience (London - October 2009, Vancouver - March 2010)
	Banff FieldTrip (Oct/Nov 2009)
	APIs for the Digital Humanities Workshop (October 2009)
	Forest History Association BC (September 2009)
	Svartarkot Workshop - Iceland (June 2009)
	Northern Environmental History Workshop (June 2009)
	Hacking as a Way of Knowing (May 2009)
	Canadian Climate History Workshop (October 2008)
	Confluences (November 2007)

Ongoing NiCHE Projects

Canadian History & Environment Summer School

(Various, annual). An annual summer workshop intended to provide a forum for interaction between graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
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photo credit: "My Footprint", Nathan Gibbs.

Conference & Workshop Archive

Over 100 recorded presentations from conferences and workshops across North America (2007-)
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photo credit: April 3: Sound Board 2", Dan LaMee.

Workshops

Time and a Place, Prince Edward Island

In June, 2010, this weeklong workshop will bring together 60 local, national, and international participants to develop links between the Island’s past, present, and future.
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Photo Credit: "the wizard: driftwood, cavendish beach, prince edward island", undergroundbastard.

Publishing for a Wide Audience

A one day hands-on workshop for graduate students which taught young scholars how to approach magazines and newspapers and to use those media as an avenue for disseminating their research and ideas to the public. First held in London (Oct. 2009) then Vancouver (Mar. 2010).
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Photo Credit: "Ode to Jack Kerouac", Oliver Hammond.

Banff Fieldtrip 2009

Rather than hand out candy to ghouls and goblins, Liza Piper, Zac Robinson and a group of graduate and undergraduate students from across the country spent last Halloween weekend exploring Banff National Park. While on the trip, four students brought along their travel-ledgers and recorded their tales.
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Photo Credit: "Banff - Mountain", Jeff Moss.

Workshop on APIs for the Digital Humanities

An international workshop devoted to developing a strategy for providing APIs that mesh seamlessly with one another, expose data that has remained inaccessible, and provide a platform for a new generation of online research.
[Learn More]
Photo Credit: "Detail of masonry construction on the city wall, Quebec City", Willy L.

Forest History Association of BC Conference

In September 2009, the Forest History Association of BC organized a very successful annual meeting. For those who could not attend, David Brownstein has compiled an illustrated description of the various field trips and sessions. [Learn More]
photo credit: David Brownstein.

Svartarkot Workshop - Iceland

Seven Canadians journeyed to Iceland with support from NiCHE, where they took part in an environmental history workshop at the "end of the earth." They brought back photos, audio recordings, stories and an interactive map.
[Learn More]
photo credit: "Early Morning", William Knight.

Northern Environmental History Workshop

Project Leader: Liza Piper, University of Alberta
Held in Whitehorse, June 2009.
For five days in June, a group of students, faculty, and northern community members gathered under the midnight sun to consider the intersections of northern and environmental history.
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photo credit: "Base Camp, Lake Laberge", Dave Neufield.

Hacking as a Way of Knowing

(Toronto, May 2009). A physical computing workshop that considered the problem of E-waste and looked at methods for learning from and repurposing articles that others have thrown away.
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Photo Credit: "Rereader for the Writing on the Wall", Adam Crymble.

Canadian Climate History Workshop

(London, Oct. 2008). A two day workshop that discussed the study of climate in Canada.
[Learn More]

Confluences Workshop

Rivers cross and re-cross the boundaries between public history, conservation politics and historical scholarship. On 15-16 November, 2007, scholars, curators, educators, civil servants, members of community groups and First Nations met at UBC to discuss the different ways in which river history and memory can be conceived and practiced. [Learn More]
photo credit: "Confluence 2007," Shelley Mansell.

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