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Sean Kheraj: Canadian History and Environment

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  • About Sean Kheraj
  • Curriculum Vitae
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  • Nature’s Past Podcast
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On Thursday, November 15, 2018, the Department of History at York University held a teaching and learning event titled, “Making a New Canadian History Textbook: How to Use Open Educational Resources to Teach History.” I gave a short presentation about my work with Tom Peace and eCampus Ontario to produce […]

Making an Open Textbook in Canadian History

Every August, my department puts out a call for print orders for course syllabi. All course instructors are asked to submit digital files to be printed for thousands of undergraduate and graduate students. On the first day of classes, professors and teaching assistants march through the halls with large stacks […]

Why do we still print the course syllabus?

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The federal government’s $4.5 billion decision to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline has set off a new debate about the controversial project. Canada has a long history of building energy pipelines, but Canadian attitudes toward major energy pipeline projects have changed over time. Unease over the environmental effects of pipeline […]

The complicated history of building pipelines in Canada

Episode 61: Why Graduate Students Study Environmental History Download Audio Subscribe                  Four amazing stories about four impressive graduate students in environmental history. Ever wonder why someone might study environmental history and write a dissertation in this field? On this episode, we speak with four […]

Nature’s Past Episode 61: Why Graduate Students Study Environmental History

Last year, I wrote about my early impressions of the possible uses of virtual reality technology for public history and history education. I also led a session in my fourth-year digital history class on virtual reality and its potential for generating a sense of historical presence, an ability to simulate […]

Immersed in the Past: Room-Scale Virtual Reality for Public History

Episode 60: New Research in Canadian Environmental History Download Audio   Subscribe                  From time to time, we like to draw your attention to new research in the field of Canadian environmental history. We interview authors about new books, we speak with graduate students about […]

Nature’s Past Episode 60: New Research in Canadian Environmental History

In their 2005 article in First Monday, Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig recount the story of a remarkably prescient colleague, Peter Stearns, who “proposed the idea of a history analog to the math calculator, a handheld device that would provide students with names and dates to use on exams—a Cliolator, […]

Is Google Home a History Calculator? Artificial Intelligence and the …

Episode 57: Why Study Canada? [33:09] Download Audio                  Why study Canadian environmental history? Where does Canada fit in global perspectives of environmental history? This episode focuses on the role of Canada in environmental history and explores some of the reasons why some scholars study […]

Nature’s Past Episode 57: Why Study Canada?

  Over the weekend, I appeared on  BBC World Service on an episode of The Forum.  The episode was a wide-ranging discussion of Canadian history since Confederation in 1867. I participated on a panel alongside Margaret Macmillan and Phillip Buckner. You can listen to the full episode in the player above.

BBC World Service Episode on the Creation of Modern Canada

Next month, I will start my first sabbatical. To prepare, I just finished reading Michael Harris’s new book,  Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World. The book came out in late April just as my teaching semester wrapped up. The timing couldn’t be better. Sabbaticals are another part of […]

Active History in Solitude

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