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2009 Atlantic Canadian Environmental History Colloquium

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 […]

2009 Atlantic Canadian Environmental History Colloquium

Nature’s Past Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 08 Available

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 […]

Nature’s Past Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 08 Available

PKP Conference Notes: Rowland Lorimer and a New Journal

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 […]

PKP Conference Notes: Rowland Lorimer and a New Journal

PKP Conference Notes: The Economics of Open Access Publishing for Scholarly Communications

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 […]

PKP Conference Notes: The Economics of Open Access Publishing for …

PKP Conference Notes: Highlights and Athabasca University Press

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 […]

PKP Conference Notes: Highlights and Athabasca University Press

PKP Conference Notes: Willinsky on the Intellectual Property of Learning

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. […]

PKP Conference Notes: Willinsky on the Intellectual Property of Learning

Public Knowledge Project Conference 2009: Daily Reports

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 […]

Public Knowledge Project Conference 2009: Daily Reports

14th Annual International Wanapitei Aboriginal History and Politics Colloquium

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 […]

14th Annual International Wanapitei Aboriginal History and Politics Colloquium

Environment and the Archive: Burtynsky on the Longevity of the Photographic Record

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 […]

Environment and the Archive: Burtynsky on the Longevity of the …

Exploring Environmental History Podcast: Episode 24 Available

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 […]

Exploring Environmental History Podcast: Episode 24 Available

Managing Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg

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 […]

Managing Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg

Should Canadian and Environmental Historians Publish Like This?

The Open Humanities Press, an international open-access publishing collective, has been publishing and supporting online peer-reviewed scholarly journals on contemporary critical thought since at least 2006. OHP is committed to providing the same rigorous peer-review process and high-quality scholarship of traditional subscription-based or “gated” journals. As scholarly publishing changes with […]

Should Canadian and Environmental Historians Publish Like This?

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