Tuesday, June 2nd
8:30-10:00
- Defining the Great Lakes-St Lawrence System: varying perspectives and scales
- Facilitator /Commentator Alan MacEachern
- Jamie Benidickson "From Boundary Waters to Water Boundaries: Legal dimensions of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence System."
- Stephen Bocking "Invasive Species, Ecological Transformations, and the Formation of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence System."
- Stéphane Castonguay "Production cartographique, représentation scientifique et espace administratif: le system GL-SL comme imaginaire géographique.
- Michèle Dagenais and Ken Cruikshank "Quelques pistes sur les études publiées sur les Grand Lacs-Saint-Laurent depuis 200 ans: un survol."
- Roundtable: Is All History Now Environmental History? The anthropocene in historical perspective.
- Facilitator: Tina Loo
- Participants: Daniel Macfarlane, Sean Kheraj, Stephen Bocking, Jessica DeWitt.
- History and Environment
- Facilitator/Commentator Gregory M.W. Kennedy
- Gregory M.W. Kennedy "Building Resilience to Environmental Change in New Brunswick Coastal Communities Through Historical and Interdisciplinary Research."
- Kristine Kowalchuk "Thomas Tyron and Bioregionalism: Learning from Early Modern England's Alternative Agriculture."
- Yves Tremblay "Le fédéral, le provincial et le DDT: l'Expo 67 comme moment décisif de l'histoire de la sensibilité écologique au Canada."
- What Kind of Development? Maritime Environmentalism and Regional Development Policy in the 1970s
- Facilitator/Commentator Alan MacEachern
- Mark Leeming "Local Economic Independence as Environmentalism: Nova Scotia in the 1970s."
- Mark J. McLaughlin "Greening the System: The Conservation Council of New Brunswick's Responses to State Resource Development, 1969-1983."
- Henry Trim "An Alternative on Prince Edward Island: Environmentalism, Modernization, and Sustainable Development."
- Canadian Energy Histories: Kerosene, Coal and Oil
- Facilitator/Commentator Steve Penfold
- Sean Kheraj "On-Shore Oil Spills in Canada: Trans-Mountain Pipeline and the Interprovincial Pipeline, 1949-2012."
- Ruth W. Sandwell "Searching for Light: Canada's Early Petroleum Industry, 1859-1900."
- Andrew Watson "'The Tail Cannot Wag the Dog': Canadian Dependence on American Coal Between the Wars."
8:30-10:00
- Nationalism, Land, and Territory
- Facilitator/Commentator Julien Labrosse
- Cristina Ionita "Comment mettre la nation sur la carte: Nationalisme et cartographie dans l'Europe central avant la Première Gueere Mondiale."
- Dinah Jansen "Size Matters: The Paris Peace Conference, Russian Liberals, and Russian Territorial Integrity, 1919"
- Christopher Miller "Making Meaning in the Land: Remembering Expropriation through Oral History in Pickering, Ontario."
- Xiaping Sun "Creating the Myth of the Wilderness: A Discursive Analysis of Maoist Land Reclamation in Northeast China."
- Exploration and Immigration in Canadian History
- Facilitator/Commentator Katie Simanzik
- Marilyn Braber and Murray Watson "Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945."
- Geoffrey Little "'This very extensive and almost unknown portion of the Empire': The Montreal Natural History Society's Surveys of Rupert's Land."
- Gustavo Velasco "The Post, the Railroad and the State: New Approaches to study Western Canada Settlement, 1870-1900."
- Sensory Encounters and Embodied Histories in the Fur Trade and Nineteenth-Century Northwest
- Facilitator/Commentator Mary-Ellen Kelm
- Daniel Robert Laxer "Sensing New Peoples: Diet, Dress, and Dance in the Western Fur Trade, 1760-1821."
- Stacy Nation-Knapper "Feeling It: Sensory Experience of the Nineteenth-Century Columbia River Plateau Fur Trade."
- Carolyn Podrunchny "Embodying Denial: The Vanishing Life of the Metis Giant from Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, 1881-1904."
- Indigenous Peoples, Labour, and Industrial Development in Canada
- Facilitator/Commentator John Lutz
- Anne R Janhunen "'A Regular Curse': Indigenous Labour and the Paradox of Early Twentieth-Century Industry in British Columbia's Fraser Valley."
- Brittany A Luby "The International Joint Commission and the Woes of 'Civilized' Men: An Examination of Flood Damage Assessments and Compensatory Systems on Lake of the Woods, 1893-1925."
- Daniel Rück "Industrial Development and Indian Act Moernity in Kahnawake, 1880-1935."
- Man and His Environment
- Facilitator/Commentator Merle Massie
- Stacey Alexopoulos "Surveying a Problem: Statistics and Housing Policy Development, 1958-1962."
- Jessica DeWitt "Park Formation as Catalyst for Restoration: A Pennsylvania River's Ecological Revivification."
- Adrian Gamble "Documenting the Canadian Arts and Crafts Movement: An Exercise in Interdisciplinarity."
- Merle Massie "Grounding Science with History: Place methodology from the field."
- History, Interdisciplinarity, and the Indian Ocean World
- Facilitator/Commentator Emmanuel Hogg
- J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora "The Indian Ocean World Database: An interdisciplinary approach for understanding human-environment interactions."
- Rashed Chowdhury "Russian Explorers in the Indian Ocean World in the Late Nineteenth Century."
- Chinnaiah Jangram "Rethinking History in Indian Subcontinent: Politics of Identity and Writing History."
- L'histoire environnementale et les savoirs interdisciplinaires du passé
- Animateur/Commentateur Stéphane Castonguay
- Maude Flammard-Hubert "Explorer, inventorier, classified: la séparation des terres comme lieu de négociation interdisciplinaire."
- Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert "Embellir et aménager les abords routiers: du Club des Habitants aux ingénieurs de l'État québécois, 1945-1960."
- Valérie Poirier "'Choice between Automobile and Survival': la pollution automobile comme enjeu de santé publique, 1960-1970."
Of course no list is complete without some self promotion. My Ottawa (De)tour walking seminar "Finding Scientific Landscapes" will be running at 6pm from the Fletcher Wildlife Garden on June 3rd. (This is not part of Congress.)
