Canadian Environmental History at ASEH 2022

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This week, the American Society for Environmental History will hold its annual meeting in Eugene, Oregon. This marks a long-awaited return to the in-person format we have all come to miss.

For your convenience, we present a round-up of all the Canadian content being presented by Canadian and non-Canadian scholars at the meeting. If we have missed your panel or roundtable, please leave us a comment and we will make sure to add you to the list.

Thursday, March 24

Wildlife at War and Peace in Canada, the United States, and Japan: Ecological Studies from the Indigenous to the International
8:30-10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Wilder

Scientists in the Tide of Globalism: The Loss of the Local Environment in Mid-Twentieth Century Fisheries Science
Jennifer Hubbard, Ryerson University

Social and Political Histories of Wood
8:30 to 10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: Mezzanine, Studio BC

The Spike in the Archive: Ecotage and Knowledge Production in Old Growth Forest Politics
Henry Richard John, University of British Columbia

Feeding the East. Animals, Environment, and Famines in Modern Eastern Europe
10:30am to 12:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Ferber

“Tsarist dish” and environment: consumption of gophers amid the Soviet famines in Ukraine
Iryna Skubii, Queen’s University

Food in the Anthropocene 2: What/who have we forgotten?
10:30am to 12:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hansberry

Eating the Atlantic: Processed fish and European thought in the sixteenth century
Jack B Bouchard, Rutgers University – New Brunswick

Understanding Disability, the Environment, History and the Future
10:30am to 12:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Joplin

Disability, Technology, and “Seeing” The Braille Trail
Kenneth Reilly, University of Western Ontario

Part II – World Fire: Combustion Across Borders
12:00 to 1:15pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, O’Neill/Williams

Smoke seasons: Sensing wildfire across borders in the twentieth century
Mica Jorgensen, University of Stavanger

Nuclear Ecologies: Islands, Deserts, Rivers, Mines
1:30 to 3:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Bloch

Canadian Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Nuclear Ecology
Aaron Sidney Wright, Dalhousie University and University of King’s College

Nursing and the Environment
1:30 to 3:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: Mezzanine, Directors

Nursing, Fumigation, and Healthy Air at British Military and Naval Hospitals 1790-1815
Erin Elizabeth Spinney, University of New Brunswick

Colonial Nutrition: Nutrition Science, Horticulture Imperialism, and Public Health Nursing in the Canadian Prairies, 1920s – 1960s
Emily Barbara Kaliel, University of Guelph

North American Energy Landscapes: Stories of Ideas, Knowledges, and Perceptions
1:30 to 3:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Ferber

Deconstructing the Discourse on the North: Revisiting the Hearings of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
Nevcihan Ozbilge, McMaster University

“Keep the Magic — Save the Skagit,” The Skagit Valley Nuclear Project Controversy, 1967-1979
Brandon Cordeiro, McMaster University

Part I – Home Fires: Wildfire, Resilience, and Re-growth in North America
1:30 to 3:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hellman

Unsettling the history and practice of wildfire resilience in northern Saskatchewan
Alex Zahara, Memorial University
Robin McLeod, Prince Albert Grand Council
Herman Michell, Prince Albert Grand Council
Abdullah al Mamun, Prince Albert Grand Council

Urban Infrastructures of Fire and Waste
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: Mezzanine, Directors

Crisis and Hope: The Politics of Waste Disposal in Toronto, Tel Aviv, and New York City
Benjamin Lawson, Eastern Gateway Community College

Roundtable: Pedagogy for Environmental History
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hellman

Liza Piper, University of Alberta
Heather Green, Saint Mary’s University
Jamie Murton, Nipissing University

Tales of Tropical Forests and the Tundra: Indigenous Experiences of Mobility, Forced Relocation, and Current Dynamics across the Americas
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Sousa

Place them on a Stamp: Inuit, Banal Nationalism, and the “Pioneer Experiment” of Forced Relocations to the High Arctic in the 1950s.
Daniel Dumas, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich

Snow Days: Sport and Science in Freezing Environments
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: Mezzanine, Studio BC

The Military-Mountaineering Complex: Transforming mountain glaciers, 1945-1958
Dani Inkpen, Cape Breton University

Tourism, Place, and Narratives of Contested Space
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 12, Vistas

‘It’s Always June in January:’ Trans-Canada Air Lines’ Sun Destinations, 1948-1955
Blair Stein, Clarkson University

Friday, March 25

Honeybees and their Keepers in the Americas since 1500
8:30 to 10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Ferber

Beekeeper Responses to Insecticide Poisoning in the Great Lakes Region, 1880-1900
Jennifer Bonnell, York University

Unstable Ground: Volcanos and Politics in the 20th Century
8:30 to 10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hellman

Volcanoes, Drought, and Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines
Theresa Ventura, Concordia University

Climate, Weather and Catastrophe
8:30 to 10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: Mezzanine, Studio BC

A little like Philanthropy, a lot like War: The Production of Environmental Displacees before the advent of Climate Change Discourse, 1870-1951
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Connecting Work and Nature: New Approaches, Methods, and Archives
8:30 to 10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hansberry

The Potential of Artistic Research Methods and Modes in the Environmental Humanities
Kate McNally, Yale University

Roundtable: Caribou/reindeer histories across the global north
10:30am to 12:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hellman

Bathsheba Demuth, Brown University
Finis Dunaway, Trent University Ontario
Jonathan Luedee, University of Toronto
Nancy Langston, Michigan Technological University

Saturday, March 26

Roundtable: Prompting Awareness / Inspiring Hope: Strategies for Teaching Climate Change
8:30 to 10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hellman

Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere, Queen’s University

Colonialism and Resource Conflicts
8:30 to 10:00am, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Joplin

‘More and more remaining at Bear Island’: Family Hunting Territories and Indian Day Schooling in Temagami, 1903-1950
Robert Olajos, Nipissing University

Dam Bennett: The Impacts of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam on the Tsek’ehne of Northern British Columbia
Daniel Sims, Tsay Keh Dene & the University of Northern British Columbia

Quotidian Perspectives of Agricultural Sustainability: Diarists from Canada’s Maritime Provinces
10:30am to 12:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Joplin

David Ross’ Diary: Context, Processes and Environmental Change on a Prince Edward Island Farm, 1830s-1880s
Matthew Hatvany, Université Laval

Maritime Grasslands: Daily Records of Change on a New Brunswick Marshland Farm, 1871-1891
Margot Ann Maddison-MacFadyen, University of Prince Edward Island

Landscapes of Subsistence in the Annapolis Valley Diary of Rebecca Ells
Jamie Murton, Nipissing University

From Row Crops to Ruminants: Specialization and Diversification in the Diary of a Four Generation Farm, Western Prince Edward Island, 1896-2021
Joshua MacFadyen, University of Prince Edward Island

New Jersey’s Natures Part 2: Environmental Histories in the 20th Century
10:30am to 12:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Wilder

Vanishing Landscapes of Labor: Migrant Farmworker Camps and the Environmental History of Seabrook Farms During the Second World War
Andrew Urban, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

New Approaches to the History of Whales and People
1:30 to 3:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Ferber

The Bloody Rise of Whale Country: Gray Whales and the Remaking of Culture and Space on the Pacific Coast
Jason Colby, University of Victoria
Tim Cunningham, University of Victoria

From Native Lands to Natural Resources: Categories of Colonial Possession
1:30 to 3:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hansberry

Making Sense of Settlement in the Marshall Islands: Extraterritoriality, Expropriation, & Plural Legal Orders
Mary X. Mitchell, University of Toronto

Disasters on the Pacific Rim
1:30 to 3:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Joplin

Volcanic Intracatastrophe: The 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption and the Interface of Human and Geologic Time
Kaden Jelsing, University of British Columbia

Roundtable: The Hurricane as Method: Archive, Theory, Argument
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Bloch

Caroline Grego, Queens University

Religion and Environmental History: New and Disparate Approaches
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Ferber

Canadian Mennonite Agronomists meet Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South
Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg

Roundtable: What’s the Matter with Environmental History? New Perspectives on Material- and Commodity-Centered Scholarship
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Hellman

Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto

Thinking Through Rivers
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 12, Vistas

Sand, Sawdust, and Fish: Imagining and Narrating the Nonhuman Occupants of the Ottawa River
Cristina Wood, York University

Rethinking Human/Animal Relations
3:30 to 5:00pm, The Graduate Eugene, Floor: 1, Wilder

“Their farms were on the ocean:” a coevolutionary exploration of 19th century American whaling
Justine Adetola Ajao, University of Toronto, Environmental History


Featured Image: Wetlands at Pigeon Butte, William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Eugene, Oregon. Photo by PD Tillman
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Isabelle Gapp is an Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in the Centre for Environment and Biodiversity and Department of Art History at the University of Aberdeen. Her research and teaching considers the intersections between nineteenth and twentieth century landscape painting, gender, environmental history, and climate change across the Circumpolar North.

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