NiCHE Conversations are 10-20 minute casual conversations with NiCHE contributors about their NiCHE contributions on Instagram Live. Afterwards these conversations are available on our IGTV channel, Facebook page, and YouTube channel.
These conversations build upon an author’s blog post(s) by asking them to:
- Reiterate their ideas
- More fully flesh out their research or writing process
- Connect their post to broader issues and fields of thought
- Speak to personal aspects of their research
Many thanks to our latest interviewees: Ramya Swayamprakash, Alice Would, Asmae Ourkiya, and Dave Cournoyer. Take some time to catch up on these scholars’ work and insights in NiCHE Conversations 1.13-1.16.
NiCHE Conversations 1.13: Environmental History and the Canada-U.S. Border Through and Outsider’s Eyes with Ramya Swayamprakash
- NiCHE article discussed: “Twice Removed: Environmental History and the Canada-U.S. Border Through an Outsider’s Eyes” by Ramya Swayamprakash
NiCHE Conversations 1.14: Sensing Victorian Taxidermy with Alice Would
- NiCHE article discussed: “Sensing Victorian Taxidermy in the Present” by Alice Would
NiCHE Conversations 1.15: Queer Ecofeminism with Asmae Ourkiya
- NiCHE Article Discussed: “Queering Ecofeminism: Towards an Anti-Far-Right Environmentalism” by Asmae Ourkiya
NiCHE Conversations 1.16: The Alberta Coal Truth Office with Dave Cournoyer
- NiCHE Article discussed: “The Truth, the Coal Truth and nothing but the Truth” by Dave Cournoyer
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is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States, editor, project manager, and digital communications strategist. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2019. She is an executive member, editor-in-chief, and social media editor for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). She is the Managing Editor for the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is also President of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society, a Girls Rock Saskatoon board member, and a Coordinating Team member of Showing Up for Racial Justice Saskatoon-Treaty Six. A passionate social justice advocate, she focuses on developing digital techniques and communications that bridge the divide between academia and the general public in order to democratize knowledge access. You can find out more about her and her freelance services at jessicamdewitt.com.

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