* 100 Episodes!! *
That’s right. Our conversation with Daniel Macfarlane marked the 100th NiCHE Conversation. I’m really proud of hitting this goal. I started this endeavour in 2020; partly as a way to break through pandemic isolation and partly to stop myself from applying to be a New Books Network podcast host! I am so lucky to get to have such genuine conversations with our contributors who make this website and robust publishing schedule possible.
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: Yohad Zacarias S., Kesia Kvill, Kenzie Kosowan, and Daniel Macfarlane. Take some time to catch up on these scholars’ work and insights in NiCHE Conversations 6.9-6.12.
NiCHE Conversations 6.9: Visual Histories of Energy at the Urban Periphery in 1920s Santiago with Yohad Zacarias S.
- NiCHE Article Discussed: “Beyond Progress. Substations, Informality, and Environmental Changes” by Yohad Zacarias S.
NiCHE Conversations 6.10: Caragana and the Pull of the “Home” Landscape with Kesia Kvill
- NiCHE Article Discussed: “The Edible Windbreak: Caragana on the Prairies” by Kesia Kvill
NiCHE Conversations 6.11: The Assembling a City Project & Crafting Historical Empathy from the Archives with Kenzie Kosowan
- NiCHE Article Discussed: “‘Filth, Squalid Misery, and Seemingly Drunken Debauchery’: Energy Relief in Toronto’s House of Industry Records” by Kenzie Kosowan
NiCHE Conversations 6.12: US-Canada Energy and Environmental Relations with Daniel Macfarlane
- Special Issue Discussed: “US–Canada Energy and Environmental Relations” edited by Daniel Macfarlane
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