Ramya Swayamprakash

Call for Proposals- Canadian Heritage Rivers What does it mean to be a heritage river in 2026? What does a designation mean/bring with it? How do these designations honour First Peoples? How are heritage rivers portrayed in Canadian media and pu...

REMINDER - Get your proposals in to @ramya.bsky.social by February 15th for our Canadian Heritage Rivers series.

What does it mean to be a heritage river in 2026? What does a designation mean/bring with it?

niche-canada.org/2026/01/16/c...

#envhist #rivers #cdnhist #cdnheritage

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Working with @ehameeteman.bsky.social on this was one of the high points of 2025. I am immensely grateful and proud of this! Thank you! @ehameeteman.bsky.social

Call for Proposals- Canadian Heritage Rivers What does it mean to be a heritage river in 2026? What does a designation mean/bring with it? How do these designations honour First Peoples? How are heritage rivers portrayed in Canadian media and pu...

Call for Proposals- Canadian Heritage Rivers
A NiCHE Series
Abstract Deadline – 15 February 2026
Edited by @ramya.bsky.social

What does it mean to be a heritage river in 2026?

niche-canada.org/2026/01/16/c...

#rivers #canadianhistory #canadianheritage

This episode of CBC's The Current reminded me of my discussion of fear in this @nichecanada.bsky.social blog post from 2019.

"Humans and Dogs and Bears, Oh My! – A Summer Podcast Reflection" - niche-canada.org/2019/08/08/h...

#envhist #animalhistory #bears #humananimalrelations

For Educators Contingent publishes accessible, engaging, well-researched pieces on history, the work of doing history, and the community of people involved in that work.

If you're working on new preps for the upcoming semester, consider assigning Contingent! In addition to our mailbag and How I Do History series, we've sorted our pieces by theme to make it easier to find something that fits. contingentmagazine.org/for-educators/

Finding Black Lung in the Archives Coal mining’s overlooked slow disaster, black lung, devastated workers, remained dismissed, archivally absent, and resurfaces through community memory and activism.

Today we have "Finding Black Lung in the Archives" by @drheathergreen.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin

This post is part of the Mining Danger Project

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#envhist #histmed #mininghistory #cdnhist

Thank YOU, Elizabeth!! So happy to have your work in our inaugural issue! Not to get too salty of course 🙊🙊🙊

NiCHE Conversations Roundup #22 Find conversations about podcasting, arctic visual culture, and baby teeth collection in this roundup of NiCHE Conversations with Jessica DeWitt.

ICYMI:

Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social began in October. Catch up on the first four conversations of the series in our latest roundup.

niche-canada.org/2025/11/29/n...

#envhist #cdnhist #envhum

And the poster for my talk at Queen's on December 11

Happy #AntarcticaDay! In honor of the day beginning on a Monday, all of H-Environment's book reviews this week address #polar or otherwise icy history! Thank you to the reviewers for making it possible! #envhist #envhum

I am happy to create one and send you the trophy. Because let’s face it, you more than deserve it.
[I mean I was thinking a cool pen?]

YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE NiCHE Conversations 6.1: A 19th Century Waponahki Basket & Env. Memory w/ G. Brooks & R. Bryant

Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social kicked off with a conversation with @rmbryant.bsky.social and Gina Brooks!

The conversation is now available on YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake4...

#envhist #envhum #indigenous #treaty

Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819 Henry Aston Barker's 1819 Arctic panorama introduced immersive Arctic imagery to Britain, blending exploration, art, and translation to shape public understanding and imagination.

Today we have "Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819" by Oliver Aas

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

niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t...

#envhist #arctic #envhum

The First Century of the International Joint Commission Daniel Macfarlane's book explores the International Joint Commission’s century-long role in Canada-U.S. water governance, environmental policy, Great Lakes protection, and evolving challenges.

"Despite some early dockets focused on transborder pollution, such as in the Detroit River, it wasn’t until after World War II that the American & Canadian governments really got serious about Great Lakes water pollution..." - @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2020/02/26/t...

#envhist

Jess is a legend. Please support @nichecanada.bsky.social !!

Finding Environmental History in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad immortalized the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, linking Great Lakes industry, Indigenous history, environmental change, and enduring cultural memory.

Today, @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social on "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.'"

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior.

niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f...

#envhist #musichistory #greatlakes #envhum

Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan Facing frostbite or storm entrapment, Alison Criscitiello chose frostbite, later returning to Mount Logan for ice-core research revealing past climate secrets.

Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada

"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello

niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...

Thank you, Dan! It was a treat!

Many thanks to @pkhardy.bsky.social for her patience and grace as I meandered (bad pun I know)! Cracker of a book and channel!

Thank you for the opportunity! @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social

@nichecanada.bsky.social is the best! Please consider sending some money and love their way!

Call for Applicants - ASEH 2026 Travel Grants ASEH is accepting applications for Travel Grants to the 2026 Conference in Kansas City.

Call for Applicants – ASEH 2026 Travel Grants - @aseh.bsky.social

Deadline to apply is November 20, 2025

Applicants from Global South encouraged to apply.

niche-canada.org/2025/10/31/c...

#envhist #envhum

You will be rightfully inundated! Yay! And the only incentive for me to come to the conference. 🤭🤭

Reflections on “Northern Squalor” and Sovereignty As Canada returns its gaze to the North in a bid to assert sovereignty and promote resource development -- both in the face of percieved threats from the U.S. -- familiar narratives are emerging about...

"One is almost history-bound to form a mental picture of the North as constituting a volley of missionaries, fur traders, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, all freely discharged upon a timid race of natives." - Dakota Erutse - @miskoaki.bsky.social

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Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

#envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm

The Steve Kemp Writer's Residency The Kemp Residency provides an annual opportunity for one writer to spend six weeks in the Smokies in a retreat-like setting.

Great opportunity for someone working in #envhist #envhum #landscapes #nationalparks
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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.

William Elvis Thomas, Eva Linklater, Laura Golebiowski & Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation's "So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School"

The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series

niche-canada.org/2025/10/21/s...

Please join the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine's #oceanhist #maritime group today at 1-2:30 CT as we discuss @scotterich.bsky.social's chapter draft "The Subterranean Sea" #envhist #histsci #STS #histSTM
www.chstm.org/group/histor...

Probably another CHESS I will miss … BUT it will be epic with or without me (or rather despite me 🤭) GO @nichecanada.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

Do IT! 💯 do it. We need good suits.