Submitted by AdamCrymble on November 30, 2009 - 09:03
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We had 19 applications this year for the Call for Projects competition, and are happy to report that we will be helping to support the following projects in 2010:
- Archival Activism
Jamie Linton, Queen’s U Geography – This project will involve creation of a web-based guide for citizen/activists doing environmental history/ historical geography archival research. - Charles Caccia and Canadian Environmental Policy
Jamie Benidickson, U Ottawa Law – This funding will support a public symposium on the contribution of Hon. Charles Caccia to the development of Canadian environmental law and policy. - New Perspectives on Parks
Keith Thor Carlson and Jon Clapperton, U Saskatchewan History – Funding will support a symposium on municipal and provincial parks in Canada. - Ontario County Maps Geospatial Project
Marcel Fortin, GIS & Map Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries – This web-based project will compile and make available both the images of 19th century county maps and extracted data. - Reaching a Popular Audience
Sean Kheraj, UBC History, and Adam Crymble, NiCHE webmaster – Following on the heels of a successful Ontario-based event, this Vancouver workshop will help graduate students take their environmental history / historical geography writing to the popular press. Contact acrymbl@uwo.ca for more information. - Rivers of Time
Linnéa Rowlatt, U Toronto Medieval Studies – Working with the Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences, this project involves developing an interactive theatrical performance for primary schools, based on nature and history in the Ottawa area. - The Small Party Online
Ryan O’Connor, UWO History – This online exhibit will tell the story of and carry oral interviews with a candidates in an early Canadian environmental party, who ran on an anti-nuclear platform in the 1981 federal election. - Under Western Skies
Joe Anderson, Mount Royal U Humanities – This conference will connect scholarly discourse to a broad range of environmental issues in Western North America; NiCHE will defray the registration costs of 20 students. - Writing Environmental Histories of the North
Finn Arne Jorgensen, Norwegian U of Science & Technology, Centre for Technology & Society – NiCHE is supporting Canadian participation at this workshop organized and hosted by the Nordic Environmental History Network, which will lead to an edited volume.