ASEH Madison Rooms
Are you a New Scholars presenting or attending ASEH Madison and looking for someone to share a room with? Email Lauren (lmwheele@ualberta.ca) and we will see about setting up some room sharing options. Please specify if you have booked a room and are looking for a roommate, or are looking to bunk with someone who has already booked, and if you prefer a same-sex roommate.
Student bursaries for the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, May 2012
Student travel bursaries for the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
4-6 May 2012
The Historians of the Environment of Atlantic Canada, the regional network of the Network in Canadian History and Environment, is offering travel bursaries of 500$ to three Master’s or senior undergraduate students interested in attending the 19th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference in Saint John.
The conference’s theme is regionalism, with an emphasis on the construction of cultural, provincial and regional identities, the contested nature of identities and the relation of region to nation. HEAR and NiCHE are sponsoring the keynote speaker, Richard Judd of the University of Maine, who will be speaking on regional and transboundary environmental history.
Please send your c.v. and a covering letter explaining your interests in Atlantic Canadian history and your interest in attending to:
Dr. Bill Parenteau
Department of History
University of New Brunswick
Email: wparent@unb.ca
120 Tilley Hall
9 Macaulay Lane
Fredericton, NB
Canada E3B 5A3
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2012
Oh Canberra!
Australia National University’s 6th biennial Environmental History PhD Workshop is being held 28 May – 1 June 2012 in Canberra, Australia. As part of NiCHE’s commitment to graduate student training and international collaboration, we are offering a $1500 travel grant for a Canadian PhD student to attend. The student should be at the writing stage of a dissertation in environmental history, historical geography, or a related field; preference will be given to a student working on a topic that has a clear Australia, New Zealand, or British Commonwealth/Empire dimension. The student will be expected to write a short report for NiCHE on the workshop’s activities and format, and on how we might institute such a PhD workshop in Canada.
If interested, please provide the following:
- a brief curriculum vitae
- a max. 2-page statement describing the subject of your doctoral research and how your work would benefit from attending the workshop,
- documented support for your attendance from your supervisor ( a signature or email will do!),
- and, if applicable, a commitment of any matching support from your supervisor or department to attend.
Submit your application as an attachment to niche@uwo.ca by 1 February 2012. Only applicants registered in the NiCHE Member Directory will be considered. Notification will be made by 21 February. If no applicant is deemed suitable by NiCHE and the workshop organizers, no travel grant will be awarded.
Reading Group Call for Papers
The New Scholars Reading Group is looking for submissions for the monthly meetings.
If you are a graduate student, or know one, and would like feedback on an article or chapter contact Lauren Wheeler (lmwheele@ualberta.ca).
The virtual meeting take place the last Tuesday of the month via Skype.
Place and Placelessness 2011
'The 2011 Place and Placelessness Online Graduate Student Workshop is coming up this Friday, October 7.
This full-day workshop will feature participants from Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, France, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
There will seven panels running over the course of the day, and a plenary discussion at the end of the day on the topic of 'environmental history and film'.
Three short films were created specifically for the workshop, and can be found on the Place and Placelessness website: http://virtualeh.wordpress.com/
Follow the proceedings via Twitter @Place_Placeless and #placeplaceless.
After the conference, check out the blogs written by the moderators of each of the panels to find out how the workshop went.
If this project interested you, but you didn't get a chance to participate or get involved this year, consider being one of the co-chairs for 2012's Place and Placelessness workshop.'