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The Network in Canadian History & Environment.

NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history.

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"What if there was an event—online, like all events still were at that point—that combined the best elements of an academic conference and a fan convention?" - @tchotchke.bsky.social on the origins of @terrorcamp.bsky.social

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#envhist #polarstudies #popculture
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Conference Archive Highlight

Listen to "It doesn’t bother me…: Local neighbourhoods, planners and the meaning of environmental justice in an industrial city, 1955-2000" - K en Cruikshank & Nancy Bouchier, Quelques Arpents de Neige Workshop. December 2008

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#envhist
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
ONE WEEK to get your proposals for our The Winter Olympics & Their Environments series to editors @theliftline.bsky.social and Blake Butler!!

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#envhist #olympics #sporthistory #winter
December 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Today we have "Seeing like a Peon: Warcraft and Perspective in Forest History" by @jason-l-newton.bsky.social

This is the eighth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhist
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"Terror Camp Clear" by @tchotchke.bsky.social of @terrorcamp.bsky.social is the eleventh and final 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

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#envhist #envhum
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Can you help push us over $12,000? Only a few more days left in our annual fundraising campaign and we are still far from our goal.

We are not institutionally funded. We rely entirely on supporters and do good work with a very small budget!!

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November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We are SO CLOSE to 75% of our fundraising goal.

The fundraiser will end on Tuesday. Have you given yet? If not, can you send $20 our way.

The average donation right now is $189, but we heartily welcome smaller donations!

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#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #envstudies
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ICYMI: Our editors @theliftline.bsky.social and Blake Butler are putting together a series on the environmental history of the winter Olympics that will be published in late January and February 2025.

Get your proposals into them by December 12th!!

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#envhist
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
3) "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" by @arnkeeling.bsky.social and John Sandlos - niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y...

#envhist #cdnhist #mininghistory #mining #histmed #indigenoushistory
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Our most-read articles published in September 2025!

Find links in the thread below!

#envhist #cdnhist #envhum
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Okay, everyone! CRUNCH TIME! ONE WEEK left to support our fundraising campaign!

We are 60% of the way to our goal.

We do a lot of good, independent work in the #envhist, #envhum, & #cdnhist communities, and we deserve your support! Can you send $20 our way?

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November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Monday, November 24th at 10am EST on Instagram Live.

@sabinelebel.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about orca memes and anti-capitalist interspecies solidarity.

Follow NiCHE on Insta here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

#envhum
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️

Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments

Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026

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#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
For #NationalChildDay, catch up on our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social, to learn about the violence inflicted on Indigenous children in the residential school system
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November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Our next NICHE Converation will be TOMORROW at 10:30am EDT on Instagram Live.

@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.

Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

#envhist
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We are 48% of the way to our November fundraising goal? What can you do to help us get to 50% today?

We are an independant nonprofit and rely entirely on your support to keep our work going!

Right now the average donation is $225, let's see some $25 donations!

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November 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you want us to be able to continue putting out environmental history and humanities content in multiple formats, make sure you donate to our fundraising campaign. Just $20 could help keep us going.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Do you like that we give space for up-and-coming #envhist & #envhum scholars to share their work with an academic & public audience? That we can offer honoraria to these authors?

Please help us continue to do so! Donate $20 to our fundraising campaign.

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November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What should we do with our Conference and Workshop archive? Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, and editor, @maryeb.bsky.social plan to tackle it next.
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We need your help, though! Send us your ideas and/or your money.
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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thanks to an anonymous donor, the next five donations of $250 or more will be matched by an additional $50!

We can't do this work without your help! Contribute to our fundraising campaign here: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

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November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, provides a rundown of the Project Page opportunities at the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)! November is our fundraising month. Support environmental scholarship!
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#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Do you love that we can support open-access books in our Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, like the IJC collection edited @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social and Murray Clamen? Then send some $$$ our way so we can keep doing it!

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November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nearly a week into our annual November fundraising campaign, and we are 24% of the way there!

We would love to see some more of our readers coming in with smaller donations! You can donate as little as $20 CAD ($14.25 USD, $12.30 euro).

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#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Do you appreciate the high-quality series that our editors, like @issygapp.bsky.social, curate?

Send $20 our way so that we can continue to offer honoraria to our under-funded contributors!

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#envhist #envhum #histgeog #cdnhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Do you enjoy the effort our editors and contributors make to contextualize current events with #envhist?

Consider sending $20 to our fundraising campaign to help us keep doing this work: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM