Environmental History of Atlantic Canada Twitter Conference

#EHAC2022

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HIST 4831/6671 Field Trip to Point Pleasant Park in October 2022. Image shared with consent.

 

The undergraduate and graduate students of Environmental History of Atlantic Canada at Saint Mary's University have been working hard all semester thinking about, discussing, and researching topics in the environmental history of Atlantic Canada. This is the first time I have taught this course, and the group of students who participated were truly a wonderful class to work with. They showed up every week with insightful contributions to seminar discussions, positivity to class field trips, and the willingness to adjust to changes in the course schedule that are inevitable in the first run-through of course like this.

To celebrate the excellent and innovative work they have been doing all semester, we will host an online Twitter Conference on Wednesday December 7th, from 4pm-6:30pm AST where each student will present a condensed version of their final project. You can follow along with the conference hashtag #EHAC2022 or check out the individual Twitter handles below.

 

The conference program is as follows:

 

Panel 1: Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia

4:00 PM - Lydia Ferguson, @lydiaferguson26, "Looking at Environmental Racism with Landfills and Dumps"

4:10 PM - Robert Hemming, @Roberthemming04, "Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia: Shelburne and Africville"

4:20 PM - Claudia Fuentes Villa, @ayarifv7, "Where the pavement ends: Africville and the prevalence of environmental racism"

4:30 PM - Lauren Millet, @laurmilly, "The Sydney Tar Ponds: Hell on Earth"

4:40 PM - Benjamin Brekker, @BenBrekker, "The Pictou Pulp Mill and its Impact on Boat Harbour and the Pictou Landing First Nations Reserve"

4:50 PM - Chris Rutledge, @ChrisRutENVHIST, "Does Environmental Racism Still Occur in Present Day Nova Scotia?"

 

Panel 2: Animals in the Atlantic Region

5:00 PM - Davlyn Laing, @DavlynLaing, "The Missing Moose of Nova Scotia: The Disappearance and, Hopefully, Reappearance"

5:10 PM - Flynn Walthour, @FW41348739, "Protesting the Seal Hunt: Helpful or Hurtful"

5:20 PM - Thomas Carey, "Atlantic Seal Hunt" 

5:30 PM - Gabriel Shannon, @Gabriel08881458, "Anti-Sealing Campaigns"

 

Panel 3: Resource Extraction and Disaster in Atlantic Canada  

5:40 PM - Emilie Thibodeau, @EmilieThibodeau, " Prospectin’ & Profitin’: Extractivist Logic in Nova Scotia’s Gold Mining Industry, A Living History"

5:50 PM - Bernice Perry, @bernicemperry, "All That Glitters - Golden Dollars Nova Scotia Gold Mining"

6:00 PM - Gabe Isenor, @gabeisenor, [Title]

6:10 PM - Kelsey Atwood, @katwoodxo, "Hurricane Juan a By-Product of Global Warming"

6:20 PM - Matt McAllister, "New Brunswick Forestry Problems" 

6:30 PM - Katherine Ji, @574547950Ji, “Vanishing Storm Defenses: Tidal Wetlands of the Bay of Fundy"

 

We hope you are able to join us on Twitter on December 7th to see what work HIST/ACST 4831/6671 have been up to, ask questions, and encourage their work!