Last week, we hosted a writing workshop for history and geography graduate students at the University of British Columbia called “Reaching a Popular Audience” sponsored by the Network in Canadian History & Environment and The History Education Network. The intent of the workshop was to introduce graduate students to some […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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On Friday afternoon, I will be leading a session at the Reaching a Popular Audience Writing Workshop at UBC about blogging and online self-publishing. Historians and academics have been blogging for many years now, but it is still a generally uncommon practice in academia. However, online publishing through academic blogging […]
Next week the Nature|History|Society group at UBC will be hosting another special event in environmental history. This term’s event features Dr. Dean Bavington from Nipissing University. On Monday, March 22nd Dr. Bavington will be giving a public lecture about the history of cod fishery management in Newfoundland based on his […]
Unfortunately, I’ve only been able to attend just this one full day of the ASEH annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, but it has been pretty good. This morning I attended a panel titled “Natural and Unnatural: Bodies, Health, and Space in the 20th Century.” Broadly speaking, both the panelists’ (Samantha […]
The American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting kicks off today and runs until March 13th. I’ll be down in Portland for the meeting for a couple of days, presenting on a panel about new directions in urban environmental history on Friday morning (10:30am, Round-table 6-A, Alexanders 23rd floor). While […]
Episode 13 New Directions in Urban Environmental History & Abandoned Mines: March 3, 2010. [audio:http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past13.mp3][49:59] Next week the American Society for Environmental History will hold its annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. Environmental historians will gather from March 10-13 to share new research and ideas, roughly surrounding the theme of “Currents […]