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We welcome event, blog posts, and other "NiCHE at 20" proposals that reflect on, celebrate, and otherwise mark our twentieth anniversary.

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/29/niche-at-20-call-for-events-posts-and-mini-reflections/

The relict landscape of made shoreline will likely soon be lost to rising water. 

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/26/made-ground-urban-waterfronts-as-anthropocene-relicts/

Where the specificity of the environment has often been overlooked in studies of art history and visual culture, environmental art history realigns art historical concerns with environmental real...

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/25/environmental-art-history-the-recording/

The negative cultural connotations of wetlands as unproductive, insalubrious, wastelands took on particular urgency in nineteenth-century France.

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/24/how-artists-represented-the-ungraspable-wetlands-of-nineteenth-century-france/

The 2024 David Neufeld Memorial Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube!

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/24/2024-david-neufeld-memorial-lecture-trondek-klondike-panel-recording/

Camera Geologica shifts the focus from light to minerals, considering the social and environmental implications of using mined materials in photos.

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/23/new-book-camera-geologica-an-elemental-history-of-photography/

Between the Nature Fakers controversy and the legal status of animals as “property” in anti-cruelty legislation, my curiosity was consumed by these fascinating juxtapositions in the history o...

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/22/new-book-literature-science-and-animal-advocacy-in-canada-practical-zoocriticism/

The Middle Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS) is accepting proposals from all academic disciplines for its 2024 conference to be held at the Hotel 1620 in Plymouth, M...

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/22/call-for-papers-middle-atlantic-and-new-england-council-for-canadian-studies/

Human-generated landscapes are made up of diverse elements, some of which work together, and others of which may be in tension.

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/19/an-introduction-to-relict-landscapes-and-the-past-in-the-present/

ASEH would like member feedback on experiences with, and hopes for, online programming.

https://niche-canada.org/2024/04/18/aseh-membership-survey-future-of-online-programming/