American journalist and host of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman, was recently detained at the Canadian Peace Arch border crossing on her way to Vancouver for a speaking event at the downtown Vancouver Public Library. In her interview with CBC about the incident, Goodman said that Canadian Border Services questioned her […]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Episode 11 Animals, History, and Environment: November 22, 2009. [audio:http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past11.mp3][55:05] Environmental history is primarily concerned with the relationship between humans and non-human nature, but the study of non-human nature holds a different set of problems and poses a different set of questions when considering non-human animals. As environmental historians continue […]
Professor Liza Piper from the Department of History & Classics at the University of Alberta came to UBC for the Nature|History|Society fall event. Graduate students and faculty gathered for a special Q&A seminar on Dr. Piper’s new book The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada. The following day, Dr. Piper delivered […]
The Canadian Historical Association is in the process of re-designing its website and has announced a soft launch of the re-design. You can check out the new look for the website and vote in an online opinion poll about the site. Unfortunately, an online poll is a rather limited way […]
Good news in the world of environmental history podcasting. Jan Oosthoek’s long-running podcast, Exploring Environmental History, was recently nominated for a European Podcast Award. Many readers will already be familiar with Jan’s terrific work (featured in the last episode of Nature’s Past). Now you can support the Exploring Environmental History […]
This is a follow up on a previous post on e-book readers and the future of reading for historical researchers. Emerging digital reading technologies hold great potential to improve historical scholarship, but these developments should not be confused with developments in the consumer electronics industry. New electronic reading devices, including […]
As environmental historians, we do a lot of reading and writing. Readers of this blog (and many other scholars) are beginning to do more of their reading in a digital format. If we consider how much digital reading we do each day, including websites and email, it is obvious that […]