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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?

Doctorow on Creative Commons, Scholarship, and Education

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 […]

Doctorow on Creative Commons, Scholarship, and Education

Nature's Past in the News

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 […]

Nature's Past in the News

Nature's Past Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 07 Available

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 […]

Nature's Past Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 07 Available

Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference 2009

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 […]

Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference 2009

Copyright, Scholarly Publishing, and the Open-Access Movement

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 […]

Copyright, Scholarly Publishing, and the Open-Access Movement

Exploring Environmental History Episode 23 Available

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 […]

Exploring Environmental History Episode 23 Available

Altering Tourist Landscapes: Arlington West

This weekend I saw the stunning, chilling anti-war protest/memorial known as Arlington West in Santa Barbara, California. Since November 2003, community activists, mainly from Veterans for Peace, from the Santa Barbara area have weekly transformed the beach adjacent to Stearns Wharf, a heavily trafficked tourist site, into a Central Coast […]

Altering Tourist Landscapes: Arlington West

CHESS 2009: Some Photos

Last week I attended the fourth annual Canadian History & Environment Summer School in Ottawa, Ontario at St. Paul University. The weekend event was excellent. I had only been to the first CHESS in Toronto previously and found that to be a great opportunity to get to meet environmental historians […]

CHESS 2009: Some Photos

Exploring Environmental History Episode 22 Available

A new episode of Jan Oosthoek’s environmental history podcast series “Exploring Environmental History” is now online. This looks to be a very interesting new four-part series on the state of the field of environmental history. This is a good opportunity to hear what he thinks about environmental history and the […]

Exploring Environmental History Episode 22 Available

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