Mount Yamnuska - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Two NiCHE Executive Members, Graeme Wynn and Colin Coates, are hosting a series of environmental history lectures over the next eight months at UBC's Green College and York University's Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.
Reflecting the harsh climate, thin soils and generally forbidding character of the vast northern territory that is Canada, it has often been said that the history of this country is inescapably environmental. This lecture series engages the great drama of human interaction with this challenging realm, reflecting on the transformation of the northern half of the continent through time as a foundation for sensible engagement with the environmental challenges facing Canadian society in the twenty-first century.
Each lecture will address one of three central themes – human activities and Canadian nature; nature’s influence on the nature of Canada; and ideas and nature in Canada – and reflect upon how the subject of the lecture has affected/changed “the nature of Canada”.
The Green College Interdisciplinary Series receives additional support from NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment); Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies (UBC); Canadian Studies Program (UBC); Dean of Arts (UBC); Departments of History and Geography (UBC). The York series is run in conjunction with a series at Green College, UBC. Additional support for this series comes from NiCHE (Network in Canadian Studies and the Environment) and the UBC Canadian Studies Programme.
