Shannon Stunden Bower

An invitation to help us think about the current moment in relation to the discipline of environmental history and the work of environmental historians -- please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to chat about a potential contribution.

Guidelines for Contributors Learn how to submit blog pieces, announcements, and other material to be published on the NiCHE website.

If anyone would like to write about the environmental history of Alberta separatism for us, check out our Contributor Guidelines and get in touch!

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Join @chriscyphillips.bsky.social at a Live Recording of the Let's Find Out Podcast in Edmonton on the evening of March 3rd!

They will be exploring the fascinating history of the Whale Society of Edmonton.

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#envhist #cdnhist #yeg #animalhistory

Farmers oppose agricultural science cuts in Canada | The Narwhal The federal government is closing farm research centres and cutting back on agriculture science, leaving farmers scratching their heads

Federal cuts to agriculture science will hurt farmers and grocery shoppers, experts say - @thenarwhal.ca

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Delighted to have my research featured in this new podcast hosted by my alma mater's radio station! It's based on a book talk I gave at @ualberta.bsky.social last fall. #cdnhist #cdnhistory @ubcpress.bsky.social

CFP: "Critical Feminist Histories in Canada/Approches critiques en histoire féministe au Canada" conference at Queen's University, 2-4 October 2026. Please share widely!
@cndhistassoc.bsky.social

Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration The Great Acceleration refers to the period after WWII when the pace and scale of socioecological changes departed dramatically from previous trajectories.

Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration
A NiCHE Series
Proposal Deadline: 18 February 2026
Edited by Andrew Watson

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#envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies #energyhistory

Join the New Scholars Committee and Mailing List Amrita DasGupta joined NiCHE as the New Scholars Representative in the Fall of 2025. She is pursuing a PhD from the Centre of Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University o...

ICYMI: Any grad students, PostDocs, and recent grads interested in #envhum & #envhist who would like to get involved in our New Scholars community should get in touch with our New Scholars rep, @amritadasgupta.bsky.social!

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New Book - The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?

"How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?" - Melanie Dennis Unrau

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#envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry

Job - Associate Specialist, Mining Research and Knowledge Mobilization The Associate Specialist, Mining Research & Knowledge Mobilization will support WWF-Canada’s work with industry, government, Indigenous communities, and civil society to reduce the impacts of mining o...

Job – Associate Specialist, Mining Research and Knowledge Mobilization - @wwf.ca.web.brid.gy

Apply by January 5th

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#envhist #mininghistory #mining #conservation #ontario

This project examines large-scale, publicly-funded irrigation projects in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The project establishes and evaluates the outcomes of mid-20th century prairie irrigation, with particular attention to the varied and uneven consequences of these efforts.

Project Spotlight - Water and the Modern Prairies: Histories of Irrigation and Water Management

Led by @stundenbower.bsky.social

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#envhist #aghist #waterhistory #cdnhist

Lots of important historical analysis in here, including some environmental history stuff.

Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway Denver’s 1950s Valley Highway film exposes intimate demolition scenes, revealing memory, loss, and urban transformation that complicate archival interpretation.

Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social

This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

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Stylized text reading "This Giving Tuesday... Support NiCHE." Other text reading "Support Access to & Development of Environmental Knowledge." Background graphic in blue and grey includes images of trees and sky.

One last push in support of @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising efforts. There are so many good causes, and money is tight for many, but if you can spare a few dollars, we'll put them to good use.

Animating the Archive: The Geography of NiCHE Posts since 2004 While NiCHE began as a Canadian environmental history network, its subject matter has always been situated in an international context, fostering conversations and collaborations across borders.

Look at the scholarly field we made! (Also, the spectacular visualization Geoffrey Wallace assembled, in collaboration with others.) As Mica says, @nichecanada.bsky.social looks "forward to fostering even more conversations that cross boundaries — geographic, disciplinary, and methodological."

Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...

Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.

❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️

Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments

Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026

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#envhist #sporthistory #olympics

Building Anew: Ephemerality and the Igluvigaq (Igloo) Snow architecture enabled Inuit placemaking, memory, and renewal, while Europeans misread its ephemerality to erase Indigenous history and justify imperial claims.

Today we have "Building Anew: Ephemerality & the Igluvigaq (Igloo)" by Phoebe Springstubb

This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social

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Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...

Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.

Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history?

Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.

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Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...

@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!

So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.

Iran's Water Crisis Is Its Greatest Threat The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.

"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...

An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."

I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.

Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social

This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow

Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.

Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

Call for Proposals / Appel à propositions - Cross-Pollinations We invite proposals for scholarly, creative-critical, and creative presentations or panels that examine or employ “cross-pollination."

Call for Proposals – Cross-Pollinations

2026 20th Anniversary Conference – Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) & the Association of Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada (ALECC)

16-20 June, University of Alberta
Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2025

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