Many of you will be familiar with the Nature’s Past podcasts produced by NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History and Environment. (For those of you who don’t know, these podcasts are excellent products. I’ve structured assignments around them).
NiCHE is now producing videos. Their first video was about an environmental history conference that recently took place in Burlington, Ontario. The video was on the state of Canadian environmental history.
Influenza patients in Kansas, 1918
The latest podcast of the Nature’s Past series is now available online. Nature’s Past is produced by the Canadian Network in History and the Environment. This week’s podcast deals with the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in Winnipeg. This epidemic, which is now largely forgotten, killed almost as many Canadians as the First World War.
Logo of the Nature's Past Podcast
Episode 10 of Nature’s Past, the podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment, is now online.
“How have online digital technologies changed environmental history research, communication, and teaching? This episode of the podcast explores this question in the context of the recent NiCHE Digital Infrastructure API Workshop held in Mississauga, Ontario. Online-based Application Programming Interfaces or APIs are just one digital technology that holds the potential to change the way environmental historians access resources, analyze historical data, and communicate research findings. Within the past decade alone, the development of online digital technologies has offered the potential to transform historical scholarship.
This episode includes a round-table conversation with some leading figures in the realm of digital history as well as an interview with Jan Oosthoek, the producer and host of the Exploring Environmental History podcast.”
Check it out here.
Logo of the Nature's Past Podcast
The ninth episode of Nature’s Past, the podcast produced by NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History & Environment is now available here. This episode that looks at environmental history graduate studies in Canada. Previous episodes can be downloaded from the NiCHE website.
The podcaster, Sean Kheraj, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. He has previously written about the environmental history of Vancouver’s Stanley Park. Currently, he is researching a new project on the history of urban animals in Canada.
The monthly Nature’s Past podcasts are a way of keeping abreast of the rapidly growing field of Canadian environmental history. The podcasts are similar in format to a CBC Radio One documentary and feature interviews with scholars in the field talking about their research. They are designed to appeal to both academic historians and ordinary Canadians who are interested in the environmental history of their country.
The Past Speaks 