The next Quelques arpents de neige environmental history workshop takes place at the Kingston Yacht Club in Kingston, Ontario, on 14-15 December 2013. This year marks Arpents’ tenth year of operations, and as a result we are extending the workshop’s format slightly in order to accommodate a larger and varied round of participants and topics. Speakers include Colin Duncan (Queen’s University and McGill University); Alan MacEachern (Western University); Jean Manore (Bishop’s University); Daniel Macfarlane (Carleton University); John Rose (Queen’s University); Christabelle Sethna (University of Ottawa); Sean Kheraj (York University); Jonathan McQuarrie (University of Toronto); Joanna Dean (Carleton University); Claire Cookson-Hills (Pump House Steam Museum, Kingston); and Darcy Ingram (University of Ottawa)
For more details contact Darcy Ingram: dingram@uottawa.ca
Click here for the printable program Arpents December 2013 Printable Programme
Programme
SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER
11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Looking Ahead: the Future of Environmental History in Canada
What’s Next? The State of the NiCHE, & of Canadian Environmental History, in a World Without Clusters
Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario
14:30-15:30 Works in Progress
Turning Over New Leaves: Discovering Missed Connections in Historical Geography
John Rose, Queen’s University
River or Resource? Redefining the Nile in late Nineteenth-century Egypt.
Claire Cookson-Hills, Historical Researcher, Pump House Steam Museum, Kingston ON
16:00-17:00 Works in Progress
The Pen, the Canoe, the Survey: Technologies of Environmental Colonization
Jean Manore, Bishop’s University
Creating Tobacco Tradition: Intersections between Aboriginal and Commercial Tobacco Farming
Jonathan McQuarrie, University of Toronto
17:00 Refreshments in the Yacht Club Pub
18:00 Dinner
19:30 Big Books
On the Question of Focus in Really Long-term Environmental History
Colin Duncan, Queen’s University and McGill University
20:30 Return to the Yacht Club Pub
SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER
9:00-10:30 Group Projects – Animals in Canadian History
Canamalis Urbanis: the Urban Canada Human-Animal History Project
Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa
Joanna Dean, Carleton University
Darcy Ingram, University of Ottawa
11:00-12:15 Group Projects – Looking Out on the Great Lakes: Environmental History in a Borderland
The Accidental Reef: Underwater Encounters in a Great Lakes Watershed
Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University
On the Level: A History of Controlling and Understanding Great Lakes Water Levels.
Daniel Macfarlane, Carleton University
12:15 Last Words
TO ALL PARTICIPANTS:
There is no registration process or fee for this event, and participants are provided with a light lunch as well as dinner on Saturday, and snacks throughout. We do, however, ask that you RSVP by 6 December in order that we can plan around numbers. If you plan to attend, or if you think you might come, you miss the deadline, or your plans change and you decide at the last minute to attend, contact Elizabeth Jewett: elizabeth.jewett@mail.utoronto.ca (no need to RSVP if your name is on the programme).
NEW! In light of this being Arpents’ tenth year of operations, we are instituting a new feature: the Arpents Book Corner. To this end, we ask that all participants bring a copy of any books and/or articles they have published in the past two years. These will be placed on a table during the workshop for participants to peruse and, if you bring extra copies, to exchange. In fact, given that this is the first Arpents Book Corner, feel free to bring anything you have recently published that might interest environmental historians (brief written descriptions of other recent / ongoing projects – a website, for example – are also welcome). Upon arrival at the Kingston Yacht Club, pass these materials on to Dan Rueck.
For more details contact Darcy Ingram: dingram@uottawa.ca
Darcy Ingram
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