Call for Environmental History Proposals at the Canadian Historical Association Meeting in Winnipeg

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The call for papers to present at the 2027 annual meeting of Canadian Historical Association is open until October 16!

If you are an environmental historian, please consider submitting a proposal for a paper or a panel.  NiCHE would like to organize a series of linked panels on environmental history at CHA 2027.

Taking place from June 14-16 at St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, the theme for the meeting is “Confluences and Crossroads.” Inspired by the long history of the Forks where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet, this theme evokes the many ways that society and environment have shaped one another in this place.

Submit a Proposal to the CHA

The annual meeting of the CHA is not restricted to scholars studying the history of Canada. Nor is participation at the meeting restricted to Canadian scholars! So, if you’re an environmental historian living outside Canada or study a place outside Canada, and you’re keen on visiting Winnipeg in June, please consider submitting a paper or panel proposal.

Individual paper proposals should be 250 words. Panels (sessions) do not require a panel abstract, but must include an abstract for each paper. The Program Committee is also open to proposals for workshops, poster sessions, or other formats that encourage historical inquiry and community participation.

Regardless of whether you are submitting a paper or panel proposal, or another type of proposal, make sure to include the word “environment” or something similar as one of the three keywords required on the submission form.

If you intend on submitting a panel of environmental history (or you have already done so), please let us know (nichecanadawebsite [@] gmail.com). NiCHE will sponsor one panel (or some other interesting proposal) at the CHA, and we don’t know what that will be yet! So we’d like to know what you have proposed. Maybe we’ll choose yours and fast track your acceptance to the CHA in Winnipeg!

Feature image: A bird’s-eye view of Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1900, by W.J. Bulman. Library and Archives Canada.

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Andrew Watson

Assistant Professor at University of Saskatchewan
Andrew is the Director of NiCHE and Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. His current research includes commodities and urban metabolism in Toronto between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries; and a study of the relationship between liberalism and fossil fuel energy in Canada in the first half of the 20th century. His first book, Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920, was published in 2022 with UBC Press.

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