Sean Kheraj

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#CdnHist and #EnvHist Associate Prof and Vice-Provost Academic @TorontoMet. He/Him

In today’s post on EHN, Trang Dang explores Jeff VanderMeer’s short story “This World Is Full of Monsters" through the lens of queer ecology.

This piece originally appeared on NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History & Environment.

https://envhistnow.com/2023/07/10/on-jeff-vandermeers-this-world-is-full-of-monsters-queer-ecology-as-a-pathway-to-queer-embodiment/

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On Jeff VanderMeer’s “This World is Full of Monsters”: Queer Ecology as a Pathway to Queer Embodiment

Through the lens of queer ecology, I want to explore how Jeff VanderMeer envisions queer inhabitation of the Earth, queer embodiment, and queer coexistence with the nonhuman in ways that challenge …

Environmental History Now.
A review of Canadian oil development in 1950. Source: Oil in Canada, 8 January 1951 p16.
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Glad to have been able to work on this book with such an excellent co-editor and contributors. Here’s my chapter:

“Spatial Analysis and Digital Urban Environmental History”

https://ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/9781773853857/resource/chapter-12
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Chapter 12 - Spatial Analysis and Digital Urban Animal History | Traces of the Animal Past | Manifold at UCalgary Press

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

Manifold at UCalgary Press

Review of Michael Classens, From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms: Food, Agriculture, and Change in the Holland Marsh.
#envhist

https://niche-canada.org/2023/02/17/review-of-classens-from-dismal-swamp-to-smiling-farms/

Review of Classens, From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms

It is a title that clearly reveals the nature of the research approach proposed by Classens in this valuable contribution to the environmental history of agriculture in Canada.

NiCHE
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Thank You, Friends of NiCHE!

What can I say? We cannot thank you enough for all the support you showed NiCHE in 2022. We reached our 2022 fundraising campaign goal of $8,000. In fact, we exceeded that goal! And our 2021 recurring contributors pitched in an additional $720. Last year we launched our first fundraising campaign

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Substance Use, Overdose Deaths, & Shared Humanity: What’s Old is News

By Sean Graham Substance Use, Overdose Deaths, & Shared Humanity | RSS.comIn this episode, I explore the history of substance use disorders and overdose deaths in Canada, which have regularly b…

Active History
34 days, 22 hours of podcast listening in 2022, apparently. Thanks, Pocket Casts!

Workshop 2023 - Commodities of Empire

Call for Papers

Fur, Fin and Feather: Commodifying Wild Animals

Commodities of Empire International Workshop, University of York [6th and 7th July 2023]

It World be great to see some North American topics at this workshop: bison, beavers, seals, whales, etc.

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https://commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/workshop-2023/

Workshop 2023 - Commodities of Empire

Call for Papers Fur, Fin and Feather: Commodifying Wild Animals Commodities of Empire International Workshop, University of York [6th and 7th July 2023] Following on the 2022 meeting on domesticated animals, we focus in...

Commodities of Empire