This evening, John Willinsky opened the Public Knowledge Project conference at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in downtown Vancouver. Professor Willinsky’s keynote address, titled “Free? What’s So Special About Learning? The Intellectual Property Argument”, outlined a new way of thinking about the debate over open-access in scholarly publishing. […]
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This week, I will be attending the Public Knowledge Project Conference at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus in Vancouver as part of my work for the Notes on Knowledge Mobilization project. The conference begins tomorrow with a keynote address by Professor John Willinsky, director of the Public Knowledge Project and author […]
In advance of the next episode of Nature’s Past, I thought I would post the latest information and Call for Papers for the upcoming International Wanapitei Aboriginal History and Politics Colloquium. This year’s colloquium is titled: “Protecting the land: Exploring Indigenous governance, environmental conflict, and resource agreements.” I recently interviewed […]
This week’s episode of CBC’s radio program, Spark, features an extended interview with Canadian fine art photographer Edward Burtynsky. In the interview, Burtynsky discusses the problem of the long-term archiving of photographs and his proposal for the “Gallery of the Long Now” to be incorporated into the Clock of the […]
Episode 24 of Exploring Environmental History is now online. In this episode, Dr. Oosthoek speaks with Marc Hall, Assistant Professor at the Universities of Utah and Zurich, about regional approaches to environmental history. Because of Dr. Hall’s transnational history research background, his insights are particularly valuable for environmental historians thinking […]
Last month, I gave a paper at the Canadian Historical Association annual meeting in Ottawa, Ontario on my current research project on the history of animals in the Canadian urban environment. I am researching the history of four cities as case studies, including Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. This paper […]
Novelist, blogger, and technology activist, Cory Doctorow, posted a video of some of his thoughts on the importance of an open-access approach to scholarship and education. He recorded this video for the European Union’s International Symposium on Helping Educational Leaders Use New Tools. Doctorow lays out some of his main […]
Nature’s Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History & Environment was profiled on the Univeristy of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts website this week. It’s always great to have an opportunity to reach a wider audience. I hope this will bring new listeners to the podcast. Thanks to […]
Episode 7 E-Waste and Obsolescence: June 15, 2009. [39:22] The problem of e-waste grows with each new mobile phone, music player, laptop computer or other type of consumer electronic device. Because many of these products are made with toxic substances, disposal is a major challenge. The environmental crisis of e-waste […]
The Public Knowledge Project, a research and development initiative that promotes better scholarly research and publication through online publishing and the creation of knowledge-sharing environments, will be holding a conference in Vancouver, British Columbia from July 8-10 at Simon Fraser University’s downtown campus at the Harbour Centre. For anyone interested […]
I have recently started thinking about these three things: copyright, scholarly publishing, and the open-access movement. I am at the beginning of a new project dealing with these matters in the field of Canadian history. Since I am just starting out, I have a lot of reading to do, so […]
The 23rd episode of Jan Oosthoek’s podcast “Exploring Environmental History” is now online. This episode is the second of a four-part series on the question: What is environmental history? Paul Warde, Reader in modern history at the University of East Anglia, joins Jan to discuss definitions, methods, and challenges for […]