Events
2013
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - Vancouver Island
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
2012
Under Western Skies 2
This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural gathering focused on environment, community and culture in the Western lands of North America.
Banff Fieldtrip 2012. (Oct.)
A group of researchers from across the country explored Banff National Park to learn from the park's physical landscape.
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - Guelph
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
The Nuclear Industry in the 21 Century
An interdisciplinary conference looking at the nuclear industry including policy, health, and environment.
2011
Translocal Ecologies Workship Compendium
An onboard workshop focused on mobility, nature, history, and knowledge.
Transforming Canada: Histories of Environmental Change
One series of environmental history talks, hosted in two cities
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - St. Andrews
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
Place and Placelessness 2011
A virtual environmental history workshop which uses Skype to facilitate dialogue between New Scholars without the need to physically congregate.
4th Annual Chiniki Lecture in First Nation’s History
Grand Chief Gargan speaks to the public on a number of important subjects affecting the Dehcho nation and the Canadian North
Environments of Mobility in Canada
A workshop in Toronto that explores the role the environment played in shaping how we move people, objects and ideas in Canada.
Cross-Pollination
A workshop that brings together Canadian experts in the production and interpretation of text and visual imagery to better understand how such media enable us to know and act on behalf of place.
2010
Natures Past Lecture Series
Archival Evidence of Environmental and Climate Change Exhibit & Lecture Series, hosted by the University of Alberta.
New Perspectives on Parks
Canadian national, provincial and local/regional parks are of global significance. And yet, more than 300,000km2 of Canadian provincial and local/regional parks to remain largely ignored
Under Western Skies
This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural gathering focuses on the environmental challenges now faced by diverse populations, both human and nonhuman, in the Western lands of North America.
Place and Placelessness
A virtual environmental history workshop which uses Skype to facilitate dialogue between New Scholars without the need to physically congregate.
Place and Replace
A conference meant to provoke questions about location in Western Canada, and about what is at stake when places and peoples’ relationship to them change or are contested.
Time and a Place - PEI
This weeklong workshop brought together 60 local, national, and international participants to develop links between the Island's past, present and future.
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - Montreal
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
Reaching a Popular Audience
A one-day workshop in Vancouver for graduate students. The workshop gave the students the skills to publish their research in popular publications.
American Society for Environmental History - 2010
The annual meeting of the ASEH, held in Portland, Oregon.
2009
Banff Fieldtrip 2009. (Oct.)
A group of researchers from across the country explored Banff National Park to learn from the park's physical landscape.
Writing for a Popular Audience
A one-day workshop in London, ON, for graduate students. The workshop gave the students the skills to publish their research in popular publications.
History on the Grand
A one-day symposium in Cambridge, ON. The overarching aim is to provide a forum to share research and discuss issues arising from the study of local history.
Workshop on APIs for the Digital Humanities.
An international workshop devoted to developing a strategy for providing APIs that mesh seamlessly with one another, expose data and provide a platform for a new generation of online research.
Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows
Bringing Subsistence Out of the Shadows aims to bring together emerging scholarship on subsistence and mixed economies, both contemporary and throughout history.
Forest History Association of BC Conference.
In September 2009, the Forest History Association of BC organized a very successful annual meeting.
Second Ganong Colloquium
In September 2009, HEAR held its second Ganong Colloquium at Dalhousie University.
Svartarkot Workshop - Iceland
Seven Canadians journeyed to Iceland with support from NiCHE, where they took part in an environmental history workshop at the "end of the earth."
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - Ottawa
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
Northern Environmental History Workshop
For five days, a group of students, faculty, and northern community members gathered under the midnight sun to consider the intersections of northern and environmental history.
Hacking as a Way of Knowing
A physical computing workshop that considered the problem of E-waste and looked at methods for learning from and repurposing articles that others have thrown away.
18th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
Scholars of Atlantic Canada gathered at the University of Prince Edward Island for the 18th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference.
American Society for Environmental History - 2009
The annual meeting for the ASEH, held in Talahassee, Florida.
Banff Fieldtrip 2009. (Feb.)
A group of researchers from across the country explored Banff National Park to learn from the park's physical landscape.
Nature | History | Society - 2009
Public lectures prsented by the Nature | History | Society in Vancouver during 2009.
2008
Quelques Arpents de Neige 2008
Presentations recorded at the public lectures sponsored by Quelques Arpents de Neige.
Considering Site C
A roundtable discussion about the proposed Site C dam in the BC interior. Sponsored by Nature | History | Society.
Brian Fagan Public Lecture
A lecture delivered at the University of Western Ontario that discussed some of the principles in Fagan's book, "The Little Iceage."
Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the CHA, held in Ottawa in 2008.
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - Vancouver
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
W.F. Ganong Colloquium 2008
Sponsored by History & Environment in the Atlantic Region and held at Dalhousie University, Halifax.
2007
Confluences Workshop
scholars and community members met at UBC to discuss the different ways in which river history and memory can be conceived and practiced.
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - Saskatoon
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.
2006
Canadian History & Environment Summer School - Toronto
NiCHE's annual workshop intended to provide a forum for graduate students, post doctoral fellows, faculty members and other interested parties.