The first full day of panels was busy and fascinating. I spent my day immersed in energy history, beginning with a big panel on pipelines and ending the day with a look at energy policy. Energy history is definitely emerging as a predominant theme among the panels at the conference this year. There are, of course, plenty of other topics being covered, but it seems clear to me that environmental historians have energy on their minds.
Check out the video above for my recap of Day Two of the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History.
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Sean Kheraj
Associate Professor and Vice-Provost Academic at Toronto Metropolitan University
Sean Kheraj is a member of the executive committee of the Network in Canadian History and Environment. He's an associate professor in the Department of History and Vice-Provost Academic at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research and teaching focuses on environmental and Canadian history. He is also the host and producer of Nature's Past, NiCHE's audio podcast series and he blogs at http://seankheraj.com.
For those of us who couldn’t make it to ASEH, this is even better than following panels on Twitter! Thanks for doing this Sean. Readers/viewers may be interested in knowing that on the theme of the links between environmental and energy history, in the Canadian context there is an edited collection by Ruth Sandwell, featuring many NiCHErs such as Josh, that should hopefully be coming out soon. Also, the Energy in the Americas conference that was held last fall at the University of Calgary is going ahead with an edited collection as well (it isn’t focused on Canada, but will have significant Canadian content).
Thanks for watching, Dan! As so much of what I do on this website, this is a fun experiment. It’s an exercise in the time-honoured tradition of vlogging.
I’m glad that you mentioned Ruth’s forthcoming anthology on Canadian energy history. It came up a couple of times in discussion today. I’m also pleased to learn that the conference in Calgary will be producing a publication as well. Lots of energy history.