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 Instagram profile and YouTube channel.
These conversations build upon an author’s blog post(s), lectures, and other writings 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: Lori Lee Oates, Nicole Seymour, Tathagata Som, and Bathsheba Demuth. Take some time to catch up on these scholars’ work and insights in NiCHE Conversations 2.9-2.12.
NiCHE Conversations 2.9: Climate Change is Colonialism with Lori Lee Oates
- NiCHE Article discussed: “Climate Change is Colonialism” by Lori Lee Oates
NiCHE Conversations 2.10: The Unfinished Work of Queer Ecologies with Nicole Seymour
- NiCHE Article discussed: “Black Lives, Black Birds, and the Unfinished Work of Queer Ecologies” by Nicole Seymour
NiCHE Conversations 2.11: Rethinking Place-Based Belonging in an Era of Forced Climate Migration with Tathagata Som
- NiCHE Article discussed: “The Place of the Planet: Climate Change and Migration in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island” by Tathagata Som
NiCHE Conversations 2.12: On Place, Apocalypse, and Hope with Bathsheba Demuth
- Lecture discussed: “Reindeer at the End of the World: Apocalypse, Climate, and Soviet Dreams” by Bathsheba Demuth
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is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States, editor, 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 also a working board member of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society and Girls Rock Saskatoon. 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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