The Management of Natural Resources and the Environment in Canada: Historical and Transnational Perspectives

Although pandemic restrictions delayed the 2021 autumn series, the Shannon Lectures in History are just around the corner with a spring 2022 edition.

杏吧原创 the Series

The Shannon Lectures in History are a series of thematically linked public lectures offered at 杏吧原创 University and made possible through a major gift from a long-time friend of the Department of History.

The spring 2022 lectures will explore historical and transnational perspectives on the management of natural resources and the environment in Canada.

The lecture series involve a predominantly Canada-oriented range of environmental experiences, and feature corresponding transnational perspectives, in conversations with African environmental/resource management experiences/practices from Ghana. Proceedings are aimed at generating historical knowledge of our collective transnational experience of the environment and its resources, which, hopefully, should add to existing knowledge in history, government policy formulation, environmental protection efforts, legal frameworks on the environment, resource management, among others.

Spring 2022 Shannon Lectures

Mr. Stephen Osei-Owusu (Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate, History) will convene the virtual lectures with support by Professor Dominique Marshall (Chair, the Shannon Endowment Committee, History).

These sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the 2022 Spring Shannon Lectures webpage.

Orcas, Pipelines, and the Politics of Science on the West Coast

Friday, May 27th, 2022 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Jason Colby (Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Victoria)

Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana:
Historical and Transnational

Friday, June 10th, 2022 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Joseph Aggrey-Fynn (Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Cape Coast)

Grass in the Cracks: Gender, Social Reproduction and Climate Justice in the Xolobeni Struggle

Friday, June 24th, 2022 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Shireen Hassim (Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Institute of African Studies, 杏吧原创 University)

What is Nature?: The Rise and Fall of Moncton鈥檚 Petitcodiac Causeway

Friday, July 8th, 2022 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Ronald Rudin (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Concordia University

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, celebrated historian will be speaking at 杏吧原创 University as a guest of the Department of History. The Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley, Laqueur is the final speaker in the 2016 Shannon Lecture Series, taking place on the afternoon of December 2nd.

Last week, in Toronto, Professor Laqueur won the in Historical Literature for his new book, . The book offers a richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century.

The subject of Laqueur鈥檚 book is also the theme of his Shannon Lecture. The lecture, A Cultural History of Caring for the Dead Body, will be given in Lecture Room 282 of the University Centre from 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm. Everyone is welcome. Afterwards, there will be a reception in the History Department, located on the 4th floor of Paterson Hall. Everyone is welcome.

杏吧原创 The Shannon Lecture Series

The theme of the History Department鈥檚 Shannon Lecture Series for 2016 is Critical Care: Treatment of Body and Mind in Social and Cultural History, and it examines the social, intellectual and cultural history of health, sickness, disease and medicine. The series is organized by medical historian Susanne M. Klausen and doctoral candidate Christine Chisholm of the Department of History. Laqueur’s presentation is the fourth and final lecture in the monthly series which began in September. The public lectures are made possible by the Shannon Fund, an endowment created by an anonymous friend of the Department of History.

杏吧原创 Thomas Laqueur

Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written a number of award winning books, and his most recent, The Work of the Dead, won the $75,000 (U.S.) Cundill Prize (administered by McGill University鈥檚 History Department) on November 17. As well, the book won the 2016 in European & World History (Association of American Publishers), as well as the 2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History ().

Thomas W. Laqueur
A Cultural History of Caring for The Dead Body
Friday, December 2, 2016
2.30 pm – 4:00 pm
282 University Centre, 杏吧原创 University
Reception 4:00 pm in the Department of History
(4th floor of Paterson Hall)
For Further Information
History@carleton.ca
613-520-2828

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