As promised, I have put together some general reflections on the recent Public Knowledge Project conference held in Vancouver from July 8th-10th. I attended the conference as part of my work on the Notes on Knowledge Mobilization page on the NiCHE website. I went to the conference with the intention […]
The Network in Canadian History & Envirnoment supports a number of different regional networks across Canada. These include groups in British Columbia, the Prairies, Central Canada, the North, and the Atlantic region. History & Environment of the Atlantic Region (HEAR) will be holding its second W.F. Ganong Colloquium at Dalhousie […]
Episode 8 Aboriginal People and Resource Conflicts in Canada: July 14, 2009. [audio:http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past08.mp3] [38:46] The history of the resettlement of Canada by European peoples and the dispossession of Aboriginal people from their land was, in part, a struggle over natural resources. Since 1867, the federal and provincial governments of Canada […]
Rowland Lorimer, director of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, announced the beginning of a new journal called Scholarly Research and Communication at the Public Knowledge Project conference this afternoon. Lorimer’s closing keynote for the conference was a pretty rousing tour of the history of scholarly publishing and the […]
This morning, I attended a very interesting session on the economics of open access publishing for scholarly communications at the Public Knowledge Project conference in Vancouver. The session began with a presentation from Heather Morrison, who spoke about the broad ideas and macroeconomic view of open access publishing for scholarly […]
The first full day of the Public Knowledge Project conference in Vancouver was indeed a very full day. Here are some of the highlights from what I saw today: NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o spoke about the impact of digital publishing and open access on the dissemination of writing in non-Western languages […]
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. […]
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 […]