From April 9-12 the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) will hold its annual meeting in Pittsburgh.
For your convenience, we present a round-up of all the Canadian content, as well as content being presented by scholars based in Canada. If we have missed your presentation, panel, or roundtable, please leave us a comment or send a message and we will make sure to add you to the list.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Crops, Ecologies, and Resiliencies: Forging Landscapes in Latin America
Thu, April 10, 12:00 to 1:15pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Phillips
Roundtable Presenter: Stuart McCook, University of Guelph
Navigating the Rapids: The Challenges of Research at Mid-Career
Thu, April 10, 2:15 to 3:30pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Vandergrift
Roundtable Moderator: Daniel Macfarlane
Roundtable Presenter: Claire Campbell
Forging, Consuming, and Experiencing Crypto-Environments
Thu, April 10, 12:00 to 1:15pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Conference C
Chair: Caroline Abbott, University of Cambridge
Isabelle Gapp, University of Aberdeen: Collecting the North: The Kinngait Studios and an Inuit Art History of Sea Ice
Negotiating Water Resources and Boundaries. Thu, April 10, 4:15 to 5:30pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Conference C
Presenter: Peter de Montmollin, UBC: Diplomatic Channels: Transboundary River Disputes and Scientific Cooperation in Patagonia, 1960s-1970s
Herland: Womancentric Decolonialist Land Practices
Thu, April 10, 4:15 to 5:30pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Frick
Presenter: Rohini Patel, McMaster University: Colonial Land Transformation and Indigenous Land Defense
Foraging Fauna: Science, Knowledge, and the Worldwide Circulation of Animals in the Modern Era
Thu, April 10, 4:15 to 5:30pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Oliver
Presenter: Barrie Blatchford, UNBC: America’s “Global Goose-Chaser”: Nelson Gardiner Bump, the Foreign Game Introduction Program, and the Quarter-Century Quest to Renovate American Fauna
Friday, April 11, 2025
Trees, Forests, and Jungles
Fri, April 11, 8:30 to 9:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Conference C
Presenters: Stephane Castonguay, UQTR & Jim Clifford, University of Saskatchewan: Multi-species assemblage, naval construction and the geopolitics of ship timber the during the long nineteenth-century
Reparative Environmental Histories and Global Extraction
Fri, April 11, 8:30 to 9:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Heinz
Roundtable Moderator: Liza Piper
Roundtable Participants: Heather Green, St. Mary’s University; Caitlynn Beckett, University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Exploring Digital Environmental History – 2024 ASEH/Gale Fellows
Fri, April 11, 8:30 to 9:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Phillips
Presenter: Ramya Swayamprakash, Grand Valley State University: Nature, Environment and Health in the American Midwest and Ontario, 1879-1960
Magnifying Insects and Insect Control in Global Environmental History
Fri, April 11, 10:30 to 11:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Carnegie III
Presenter: Chase Fleece, Bowling Green State University: Mayfly Madness: How Lake Erie’s Pollution Suppressed the Swarm, 1953-1997
Expertise, Scientific Authority, and Governance in the Age of the Anthropocene
Fri, April 11, 10:30 to 11:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Oliver
Roundtable Participant: Jessica Wang, UBC
Lightning Talks: New Perspectives on Marshes, Swamps, and Wetlands
Fri, April 11, 10:30 to 11:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Phillips
Presenter: Greg Oulahen, Toronto Metropolitan University: Forest, marsh, and sand: Removing and remaking Pelee Island, 1870-1920
Saturday, April 12, 2025
(Mis)Identifying Animals: Technologies and the Subjects of Natural History, 19th century to the Present
Sat, April 12, 8:30 to 9:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Frick
Presenters: Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto & Chloe Chaitov, University of Toronto Archives: Roaming Restorations: Henry A. Ward and the movement of ersatz mammoths across America
Material Histories of the Circular Bioeconomy
Sat, April 12, 10:30 to 11:45am, Omni William Penn, Floor: Mezzanine, Lawrence Welk Room
Roundtable Presenter: Mengran Xu, University of Toronto
Plants, Animals, and Insects in Library and Museum Collections
Sat, April 12, 10:30 to 11:45 am Panel Omni William Penn: Floor Conference Level—Vandergrift
Presenter: Caroline Abbott, University of Cambridge, “‘Boxed up for England:’ The Walsingham Field Collection as Case Study on the Practical Integration of Mammalian Osteology into Animal Histories of Imperial Field Collection”
Water, energy, and power in times of transition
Sat, April 12, 2:15 to 3:30pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Conference A
Presenter: Daniel Macfarlane, Western Michigan University: The History of Pumped Storage Hydropower: A Great Lakes Perspective
Understanding Built Environments through Indigenous and Settler Worldviews: New Spain to the Great Lakes
Sat, April 12, 2:15 to 3:30pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Mezzanine, Lawrence Welk Room
Presenter: Benjamin Kapron, Independent Scholar: “So Great Was the Rush of Water”: Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway
Transboundary Animals: Histories of Animals Across Political, Social, and Species Boundaries.
Sat, April 12, 4:00 to 5:15pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Conference B
Presenter: Hairong Huang, University of Toronto: Liberating Chinese Pigs from Soviet Bovines: Pig Fodder, Ecological Crisis, and Rural Subsistence in Socialist China
Forests, Flows, Factories: Industry-Rural Relations in the Cold War Era
Sat, April 12, 4:00 to 5:15pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Mezzanine, Lawrence Welk Room
Presenter: Hongyun Lyu, University of Toronto: Restructuring Power Lines: Rural-Urban Relations, Socialist Politics, and the Borders of Electrical Infrastructure in the People’s Republic of China (1965-1983)
Reframing the Past: Visual Culture and the Power of Environmental History
Sat, April 12, 4:00 to 5:15pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Oliver
Presenter: Finis Dunaway, Trent University: Alcatraz and the Crying Indian; or, The Colonial Origins of Greenwashing
The Uncooperative Agent: Comparative Environmental Histories of Water
Sat, April 12, 4:00 to 5:15pm, Omni William Penn, Floor: Conference Level, Phillips
Roundtable Presenter: Constance de Font-Réaulx, University of Toronto
