In "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology", @historiamagoria.bsky.social introduces a new tribute film that she recently released.
niche-canada.org/2026/03/06/t...
#envhist #histtech #cdnhist #genderhistory #history
Crisis can be opportunity. Seize it.
This film was such a privilege to make. Please take a look! #EnvHist #histSTM
Great hidden #CdnHist moment and song!
Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.
We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist
This is awful and reminds me of that time a UK uni used the lecture recordings and slides of a dead professor a few years ago. After years of wanting our academic work “out there,” it’s sad (but necessary) to start closing those doors.
Love it!
Excited to be on the line-up for this fab seminar series — if you’re disgruntled with Emerald Fennell, come along next week to immerse yourselves in the dangerous histories of an alternative (and dare I say superior) moor
🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism!
Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...
Poster advertising the short film about Joy Parr’s scholarly impact, featuring the title The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology
I’ve made a short film about the impact and legacy of the phenomenal #CdnHist #histSTM #EnvHist historian, Joy Parr featuring new and established scholars. Check out The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life via this link! www.joyparr.com/tributes/
Same! 😂
These are all such great pieces and I’m lucky mine is included in the list!
In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
Thrilled to announce the new #pod a former student has launched to uncover/explore the incredible history of light rail in #HamOnt! Check out Hammer and Rails (what a name!) via this link: shows.acast.com/hammer-and-r... #UrbanHist #EnvHist
Reviewing a book is one of the best and most fun service opportunities available! Check out the awesome books available from H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #envtech #conservation #sustainability #envjustice #ecocrit #envphil #plantstudies #animalstudies #nature
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Looking for sources relating to verticality and/or extractive penetration (queer focus) on #MiningHist #EnvHist Any suggestions most happily welcome!
I might not care one bit about watching the winter olympics, but I have a new #envhist #energyhistory piece out in @nichecanada.bsky.social on how the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic media village built on Norwegian cabin traditions - and transformed them after the games. niche-canada.org/2026/02/09/t...
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...
Recent BA graduate Kaley MacMullin and Dr. Heather Green of @historysmu.bsky.social have co-authored 2 posts on the Network in Canadian History & Environment’s The Otter. For the first see: "Finding Black Lung in he Archives." niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f...
And see: "Down Below Ground: Research, Memory, and Place at Springhill Mine." niche-canada.org/2026/02/03/d...
Part of a page from Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg's 1877 treatise on insects which forms part of Brehms Tierleben. The text is in German and it features a drawing of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive male patterning on its right side and female on its left.
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historical, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book!
#booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️
So happy to see the cover of this collection! Out this spring/summer as the final volume of A Cultural History of the Environment, huzzuh! #EnvHist
Today we are highlighting the research that @danitaburke.bsky.social conducted at the Laurier Archives for the @sealsandsurvival.bsky.social project.
niche-canada.org/2026/02/02/s...
#envhist #cdnhist #arctic #archives
“Sir George Williams University stands condemned” (Montreal, February 11, 1969)
On this day in 1969. hundreds of students occupied the computer center at Sir George Williams University in Montreal to protest the racism of a professor & the admin. The action & police response influenced the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Trinidad & Tobago.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/328/
CFP: explore the historical relationships among natural resources, institutions & socio-environmental change at the POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN HISTORY summer school!
18–20 June 2026, U of Tübingen
500-word abstract & 2-page CV to ehtuebingen@gmail.com by Feb 23.
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
Hey, pre-order John's excellent book to read the history about Washington and slavery this administration is trying to hide, and how we've always fought over it.
What would you do if you had one day to design a solution to a real tuberculosis challenge?
On Feb 6, students come together at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social for a global health case competition grounded in real TB challenges.
🏆 Big prizes
🎟️ Limited spots
Register 👉 bit.ly/FEB06
Today on @activehist.bsky.social, we are launching a new year-long series - Indian Act 150 - looking at the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. As part of the introduction to the series, I offer some reflections on the history and historiography of the Indian Act: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...
Coming up next month! Talks in Bristol, Cambridge, & Oxford on extinction in museums. Reserve your free place thru the links 👇
