TransformingCanada
Beyond the Culture of Nature Conference, 28-30 September, 2012
Canadian Studies at UBC is hosting a conference at the end of the month (28-30 September), Beyond the Culture of Nature: Rethinking Canadian and Environmental Studies. It will be held at St. John’s College. Please consider attending. Please contact Matthew Evenden to register (matthew.evenden@ubc.ca) We hope to see you there! Our thanks to several UBC […]
Transforming canada: FISH AND FUR AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Stephen Hornsby, Director, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine Geography Building Room 130 Monday, March 19, 5-6:30 pm
Transforming canada: CITIES AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Michèle Dagenais – Département d’histoire – Université de Montréal – on MONDAY 12 March 2012 in the GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE at 5:00pm CITIES AND THE NATURE OF CANADA Although some 80 percent of Canadians are urban dwellers, Canadians have long held a somewhat ambivalent—even antagonistic—attitude toward cities, and especially large cities. Cities are rarely […]
Transforming canada: COMMUNICATIONS AND THE NATURE OF CANADA
Ken Cruikshank, Department of History, McMaster University Wednesday 29th February, 5:00PM Geography room 130 KEN CRUIKSHANK is a historian from McMaster University. He has written effectively on the Intercolonial Railway and the administrative state and he is interested in the interaction of business, state and society in Canada and the United States between the 1850s […]
Transforming canada: WILDERNESS CULTURE AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Claire Campbell, Department of History, Dalhousie University GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE CLAIRE CAMPBELL is a historian from Dalhousie University where she lso heads up the Canadian Studies programa dn was a foundation member fo their Sustainability BA program. Her interests are in Parks (editor of a recent volume with UC Press) and Public History and […]
Transforming canada: GENDER AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Joanna Dean, Department of History, Carleton University Geography 130
Transforming canada: SIZE AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Alan Maceachern, Department of History, University of Western ontario GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE