If you're struggling to stay stimulated during the summer, NiCHE has a fabulous collection of public lectures, conference presentations and roundtables to get you through the days. With over 150 presentations in our collection, where does one start?
Well, we've broken it down for you with 4 of the most engaging. In no particular order:
- Brian Fagan, "And On that Day the Earth Will Be Turned to Ashes." University of Western Ontario: 2008.
World renowned archeologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara spoke in front of a packed house at the University of Western Ontario in October, 2008. Fagan, one of the world's great orators, spoke about his latest research into global climate change from an archeology perspective. Sit back and relax as Fagan takes you on a storied journey through the earth's environmental history.
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Mark Cioc, Jamie Lewis, Jeannie Whayne, David Mladenoff, "Roundtable: Great Paper! What Are You Going to do with It?" American Society for Environmental History Conference, Talahassee, FL.: 2009.
Editors past and present from a range of environmental history publications sat down to tell you how to turn your research into journal articles. Get the inside scoop on what to do, what not to do, and when to do it from the people who dealt with submissions on a daily basis. A must listen for new scholars.
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Sean Kheraj. "Episode 15: Forestry Education in Canada." Nature's Past. 2010.
In this Nature's Past podcast episode, host Sean Kheraj speaks with Mark Kuhlberg, an Associate Professor of History at Laurentian University. Kuhlberg speaks about the research that led to his new book, "One Hundred Years and Counting," that recounts the origins of forestry education in Canada, which reveals a troubled past filled with struggles to balance the interests of the provincial government, private industry, and the university administration.
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Finis Dunaway. "Seeing Connections: Environmental History and Visual Culture." Time and a Place, Charlottetown, PEI. 2010.
Dunaway, an Associate Professor of History at Trent University, discusses why images matter to environmental history. His lecture draws on a wide array of visual texts — including landscape paintings, photographs, mass media, and contemporary art — to examine crucial methodological issues that arise at the intersection of environmental history and visual culture. This presentation is also available as video thanks to the University of Prince Edward Island.
Happy listening!
