Call for Papers - Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology Resisting Abandonment will foreground the idea that languages, like ecosystems, are sites of relationality and care.

Colloque international - Résister à l’abandon: langue, culture et écologie

Centre de recherche sur le contact des langues et des cultures
Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York
15 et 16 octobre 2026

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#ecology #language #envhist #envhum #envstudies

Clearing the Plains and Clearing the Air: Environmental History and National Memory [Video] In November 2015, Professor James Daschuk delivered the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History at York University. The title of his lecture was, "Clearing the Plains and Clea...

Throwback to the 2015 Melville-Nelles-Hoffman Lecture.

Professor James Daschuk detailed how Canadian expansion, disease, and government policy devastated Indigenous peoples on the plains, impacting modern health.

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#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #histmed

How has your scholarship been impacted by a decision not to travel to the United States? Want to write about it for our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series?

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#envhist #envhum #cdnhist

Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice (2022)

Cleo Wolfle Hazard

Trans Joy and Indigenous Resistance on the River: A Conversation with Cleo Wölfle Hazard - Edge Effects Cleo Wolfle Hazard discusses his recent book, Underflows, and his work on river justice and queer and trans ecologies.

Listen to "Trans Joy and Indigenous Resistance on the River: A Conversation with Cleo Wölfle Hazard" - @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social edgeeffects.net/wolfle-hazard/

Then consider submitting to Succession IV: Queering the Environment - Queer Joy, last day to do so! - niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

Call for Papers - Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology Resisting Abandonment will foreground the idea that languages, like ecosystems, are sites of relationality and care.

Call for Papers - Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact
Glendon College, York University
October 15–16, 2026
Proposal Deadline: June 15, 2026

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#envhist #envhum #ecology #language

The Are Rivers Heritage? series is an extention of the original heritage rivers series, and @aliciacolson.bsky.social's "What is a Heritage River?" is a great place to start when thinking on this topic!!

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Are Rivers Heritage? CFP: niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c...

#OTD (Thu, Apr. 11) 1912 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Heard first song sparrow. I arrested W. A*** on charge of stealing money from Tho’s Copland at Whitney. Upon searching him we found money in his book. I turned prisoner over to prov. constable." @nichecanada.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social

This plan depicts lands associated with Big River I.R. 118A (Canada Lands #06608). The lands depicted in this plan are associated with Big River First Nation. “854 CLSR SK. Plan, Indian Reserve No. 118A, Addition for Big River Indians of Reserve no. 118. Treaty 6, Saskatchewan. [cartographic material].” 1908. Library and Archives Canada.

Call for Papers – Treaty 6 at 150: Reading the Land, Reckoning the Past

A NiCHE & @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social series
Proposal Deadline: 30 June 2026
Series publication beginning in August 2026

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#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #treatysix #skhistory #alberta

Super stoked about this. #Divination

The Magpie River in Quebec also won personhood! - niche-canada.org/2021/05/07/p...

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage? Can rivers be heritage? What is the place of rivers in our sense of place and/or self? What is the future of rivers? What lessons or parallels do rivers across the world have for Canada?

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage?

A NiCHE Series
Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026
Edited by @ramya.bsky.social

NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage.

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#rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage

Unsightly Relations: A Meditation On (Not) Being Disgusted by Insects For me, practising monstrosity begins by sitting with webworms, respecting their space and leaving their web intact while noticing my body with open curiosity rather than reactionary shame.

“Perhaps our interactions with insects invite us to go beyond re-drawing boundaries of belonging and instead dwell with the discomfort of unbelonging. How might we relate to that which feels unwanted?” - Janice Vis

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"Maintaining a healthy land base, supports our economic livelihoods, and is central to our physical, spiritual, mental health and wellbeing, which helps us respond to and recover from wildfire events." - Rachel Cote

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#indigenous #wildfires #landback

This prompts me to wonder, when anti-queer folks talk about queerness as "unnatural", there is an implicit invocation of an apparent care for nature there. Yet, in the large majority of cases, anti-queer "concerns" for "naturalness" have little do with real environmental concern.

Reading this excellent article about about the potential of microplastics to queer bodies and relations from @nichecanada.bsky.social: niche-canada.org/2024/08/12/t...

A good story on the upcoming fire season in Canada by Jordan Omstead -Canadian Press (though I may be biased)

The 2026 fire season is a litmus test?

www.castanetkamloops.net/news/BC/6080...

Birds and insects are disappearing. That should worry us all
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New job:

Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek Literature or History

Yale University

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rattlesnake

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, exploring, and watching from March!

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#envhist

"In this queer future, it becomes imperative to ask how the connection between plastic toxicity and the queering of bodies can avoid becoming a pretext for oppression within the cis-hetero-patriarchy amidst the recent surge of conservative backlash..." - Jay Sinclair
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#OTD (Sun, Apr 9) 1911 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Heard robins for first time this season." @nichecanada.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social

#OTD (Mon, Apr 7) 1913 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Visited traps. Got 1 large beaver measuring 41 inches from tip to tip. Jim skinned same for mounting. The same to be shipped this evening to Oliver Spanner Co., 358 Yonge St., Toronto. Saw first song sparrow this morning." @nichecanada.bsky.social

Very happy to announce the Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present)

Submission deadline: 31 May 2026. Feel free to share.

Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935 Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology Richard Fallon Studies religiously motivated publications about Earth's deep geological history focusing on transatlantic science in the period 1860-1935 Based on extensive consultation of archival sources and overlooked published texts Brings together fields of controversial science normally discussed separately, such as Christian creationism, occult science, and hollow-earth scholarship Offers intriguing new perspectives on well-studied writers such as the Theosophist H. P. Blavatsky, the creationist George McCready Price, and the novelists H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs

My book's on the shortlist for the 2025 @thebsls.bsky.social Book Prize. Stiff competition though! Winners announced at the annual conference this Friday (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/04/2025...).

The 1824 Dinner Party That Gathered the World’s Leading Explorers How those who had sailed closest to the North Pole, climbed to the tallest elevation and risen highest toward the heavens met one night in Paris. Plus: new Polar Intelligence.

If you could have a party with the most important people in your field, who would you invite?

A French astronomer brought scientists from the farthest points of the Earth together for one epic night in April 1824.

Discover who was on the guest list in the latest issue of Arctic Archives ...

Call for Papers - Forecasting the Weather between Divination and Science (Antiquity to the Present) We are seeking case studies from the ancient world to the present that focus on learned and scholarly forms of weather prediction (rather than every day or informal beliefs), including but not limited...

Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present)

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026

Workshop, organised at the University of Oxford, UK, 9 Oct 2026, by @simondolet.bsky.social & Michelle Pfeffer

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#envhist #histsci

Mary Sanseverino on the value of Mountain Voices as a tool for environmental advocacy.

Find the full virtual roundtable, Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence, here: niche-canada.org/2026/04/02/r...

@ucalgarypress.bsky.social #envhist #mountains #books #environment

Carney approved it.

Albertans, how you feeling about this?