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Ramya Swayamprakash
@ramya.bsky.social
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Historian and writer | Assistant Professor | Associate Editor, @g-ehr.bsky.social | Environmental History, STS | Infrastructure, Nature, non humans and everything else in between | follower of many cool fish stories | All things rivers and Alphonso mangoes
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Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social kicked off with a conversation with @rmbryant.bsky.social and Gina Brooks!

The conversation is now available on YouTube!

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#envhist #envhum #indigenous #treaty
NiCHE Conversations 6.1: A 19th Century Waponahki Basket & Env. Memory w/ G. Brooks & R. Bryant
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Today we have "Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819" by Oliver Aas

This is the sixth 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 #arctic #envhum
Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819
Henry Aston Barker's 1819 Arctic panorama introduced immersive Arctic imagery to Britain, blending exploration, art, and translation to shape public understanding and imagination.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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"Despite some early dockets focused on transborder pollution, such as in the Detroit River, it wasn’t until after World War II that the American & Canadian governments really got serious about Great Lakes water pollution..." - @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social

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The First Century of the International Joint Commission
Daniel Macfarlane's book explores the International Joint Commission’s century-long role in Canada-U.S. water governance, environmental policy, Great Lakes protection, and evolving challenges.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Jess is a legend. Please support @nichecanada.bsky.social !!
nichecanada.bsky.social NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 5d
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 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Today, @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social on "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.'"

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior.

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#envhist #musichistory #greatlakes #envhum
Finding Environmental History in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad immortalized the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, linking Great Lakes industry, Indigenous history, environmental change, and enduring cultural memory.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada

"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello

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Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan
Facing frostbite or storm entrapment, Alison Criscitiello chose frostbite, later returning to Mount Logan for ice-core research revealing past climate secrets.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Many thanks to @pkhardy.bsky.social for her patience and grace as I meandered (bad pun I know)! Cracker of a book and channel!

Thank you for the opportunity! @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social
 Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 10d
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out @ramya.bsky.social (Grand Valley State Uni)’s review of @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social (Western Michigan Uni)’s book _The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History _, pub 2024 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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@nichecanada.bsky.social is the best! Please consider sending some money and love their way!
nichecanada.bsky.social NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10d
Today our Director, Andrew Watson, launches our 2025 November Fundraising Campaign!

We are aiming to raise $16,000 over the next three weeks.

If you appreciate the work that we do daily for #envhist & #envhum, for free, consider sending us $20 CAD our way!

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Loving NiCHE Month: 2025 November Fundraising Campaign!
NiCHE fosters a vibrant environmental history and humanities community, supporting scholars through publications, events, resources, and annual fundraising to sustain its work.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Call for Applicants – ASEH 2026 Travel Grants - @aseh.bsky.social

Deadline to apply is November 20, 2025

Applicants from Global South encouraged to apply.

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#envhist #envhum
Call for Applicants - ASEH 2026 Travel Grants
ASEH is accepting applications for Travel Grants to the 2026 Conference in Kansas City.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"One is almost history-bound to form a mental picture of the North as constituting a volley of missionaries, fur traders, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, all freely discharged upon a timid race of natives." - Dakota Erutse - @miskoaki.bsky.social

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Reflections on “Northern Squalor” and Sovereignty
As Canada returns its gaze to the North in a bid to assert sovereignty and promote resource development -- both in the face of percieved threats from the U.S. -- familiar narratives are emerging about...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social!

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#envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Great opportunity for someone working in #envhist #envhum #landscapes #nationalparks
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The Steve Kemp Writer's Residency
The Kemp Residency provides an annual opportunity for one writer to spend six weeks in the Smokies in a retreat-like setting.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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William Elvis Thomas, Eva Linklater, Laura Golebiowski & Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation's "So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School"

The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series

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So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School
Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Please join the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine's #oceanhist #maritime group today at 1-2:30 CT as we discuss @scotterich.bsky.social's chapter draft "The Subterranean Sea" #envhist #histsci #STS #histSTM
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History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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October 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Probably another CHESS I will miss … BUT it will be epic with or without me (or rather despite me 🤭) GO @nichecanada.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
nichecanada.bsky.social NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 24d
2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School is going to Prince Edward Island!!

The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper.

Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025.

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CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"Blessed is the Spot" by Julian Aguon for @placesjournal.bsky.social

"It’d be years before the federal government would come clean about how the sand and water were heavily contaminated with industrial chemicals linked to cancer."

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Grief and Empire on the Island of Guam
In a militarized territory like Guam, everything is political, even cancer.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Today we have "People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature" by Jane Komori

This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.

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#envhist #cdnhist #japanesecanadian #japanese #bchistory
People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature
Jane Komori explores Japanese Canadian rock gardens, revealing diasporic visions of nature shaped by migration, incarceration, and resilience.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Today @dagomardegroot.bsky.social makes a case for an Environmental History that spans the cosmos.

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#envhist #space #cosmos #histsci
Something New Around the Sun: The Case for an Environmental History that Spans the Cosmos
Environmental history studies past interactions between humans and nature—expanding from Earth’s ecosystems to the dynamic, interconnected environments of the entire universe.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I'm pretty sure I broke some basic "best practice" of podcasting by spending 5 minutes gushing about someone else's show (hey @brendanomeara.bsky.social), but it's my show, I do what I want.

And @tracyslater.bsky.social was so great! Listen now.
draftingthepast.bsky.social Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · Oct 14
So fun to chat w/ @tracyslater.bsky.social about TOGETHER IN MANZANAR! Learn how she found her way to narrative history & how she stays with her characters as she tells their story. She also made me blush talking abt how podcasts are part of her writing community draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Podcast graphic image. On the left is a photograph of a smiling blond woman, and on the right teal text reads "Drafting the Past Episode 70: Tracy Slater."
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Check out Matthew Booker's review of James Michael Buckley's "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry," published in 2024 by @utexaspress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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October 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Hear a brief excerpt of a terrible interview I gave to NPR. Kudos to the journalist for making me sound somewhat cohesive.

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Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as legend held, researcher says
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship was ill-equipped for the voyage and Shackleton was aware.
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October 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, watching, and listening to from September!

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#EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2025
Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
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October 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser continued this week with "A Deeper Cultural Divide" by Antoine Mountain.

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#indigenous #envhist #cdnhist #residentialschools
A Deeper Cultural Divide
Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Check out Patrick Meehan's review of Annette Kehnel's "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability,' published in 2024 by Brandeis University Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #sustainablity #envhum
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October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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We like Parrots and we cannot lie!
Our first article is a special feature by Nancy Jacobs! It is part one of a three part three series, drawing upon her 2025 Presidential Address at the ASEH in Pittsburgh.
The Great Acceleration (Domination without Domestication in the Grey Anthropocene, Part 1) – Germinate
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October 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM