Congress 2014, hosted by Brock University, is quickly approaching. I’ve gone over the preliminary programs for both the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Association of Geographers and highlighted a panels that may be of interest to, or are being presented by, environmental historians. The PDF CHA schedule is here and the CAG is here.
I may have missed a few panels, so please let me know in the comments and I’ll update the list.
Monday, May 26
8:30-10
Finding Nature, Hiding Culture and Forgetting Industry at Canadian and American Parks. CHA
Panel: Lauren Wheeler, Jessica DeWitt, Peter Anderson (me!)
Chair: John Walsh
15:15-16:45
The Great Naked, Rowdy, Drunken Outdoors: Exploring Canada’s Vernacular Culture of Nature through ‘Bad’ Behaviour CHA
Panel: Dale Barbour, Ben Bradley, Mary-Ann Shantz
Chair: Sean Kheraj
Tuesday, May 27
8:30-10
Thinking about Animals in Urban Canada CHA
Panel: Joanna Dean, Christabelle Sethna, Darcy Ingram
Chair: Laura Cameron
Systems, Spaces, Objects, Identities: Cultural Histories of Technology in 20th Century Canada CHA
Panel: Daniel Macfarlane, Bret Edwards, Jan Hadlaw, Anne F MacLennan
Chair: Steve Penfold
10:15-11:45
Sustainable Development, the Arctic, and “Counterweights”: Problems in the 1970s, Problems Now CHA
Panel: P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Henry Trim, Frank Maas
Chair: Ian Muller
10:30-12:00
Forest Ecosystems, Economies and Places CAG
Panel: Sinead Earley; Brenda Murphy, Annette Chretien, Grant Morin; Anderson Assuah; and, Sara Teitelbaum and Ryan Bullock
Wednesday, May 28
10:15-11:45
Blending Boundaries: Integrating Historical Approaches in Examining the Natural World in 20th Century Canada CHA
Panel: Jonathan McQuerrie, Mike Commito, Mark Kuhlberg
Chair: TBA
13:30-15:00
Special Panel on a Proposal for a Canadian Historical GIS Network CAG
Panel: Byron Moldofsky, Leon Robichaud, Donald Lafreniere
Critical Legal Geographies CAG
Panel: Valentia Capurri; Rebekah Ingram, Adrian John, Richard Quodomine and Jay Toth; and, Laura Schaefli
13:45-15:15
The State, Conservation and Moral Economies CHA
Panel: George Warecki, Steve Penfold, Denny DeSerres Brett
Chair: TBA
15:30-17:00
Interrogating Toronto’s Past CAG
Panel: Richard Anderson, Harvey Rainbow, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
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