Environment & Technology

Books

Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments and the Everyday December 2009

Hardcover: 978-0-7748-1723-3; Paperback: 978-0-7748-1724- 2009, 256 pp (est.), 6 x 9, B&W photos 6 maps, 2 graphs, 9 line art

Articles

‘Our Bodies and Our Histories of Technology and the Environment’ in Stephen Cutcliffe and Martin Reuss eds.The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History (University of Virginia Press) University of Virginia Press, 2010

‘The embodied implications of the Columbia Treaty,’ Festschrift in honor of Prof. Paul Weiler, Harvard University, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011)

‘The Practicing of History Shared across Differences: Needs, Technologies and Ways of Knowing in the Megaprojects New Media Project,’ with Jon van der Veen and Jessica Van Horssen Journal of Canadian Studies 43, 1 Winter 2009 1-24

‘Smells Like?: Sources of Uncertainty in the History of a Great Lakes Environment’ Environmental History April 2006 282-312

‘Working Knowledge of the Insensible: an embodied history of radiation protection in Canadian Nuclear Power Stations, 1962-92’ Comparative Studies in Society and History October 2006 820-851

‘Local Water Diversely Known: Walkerton, Ontario 2000 and after,’Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23, 2 2005 251-71

‘Lostscapes: Found sources in search of a fitting representation,’ Journal of the Association for History and Computing 7, 2 Aug 2004

‘Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth Century Canada: the timely, the tacit and the material body,’ Canadian Historical Review 82, 4 December 2001 720-45

Popular Writing

‘Francoise A Laflamme,’ in Lives Lived, Globe and Mail, 18 July 2000

Conference Papers

‘Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth Century Canada: the timely, the tacit and the material body,’ Canadian Historical Review 82, 4 December 2001 720-45

‘Creating a militarized landscape: Canadian Forces Base at Gagetown’ 6 September 2008, University of Bristol, UK

(with Jon van der Veen and Jessica Van Horssen) ‘Negotiation Authorization for Sharing in Two Canadian Megaprojects’ at Sharing Authority: Building Community-University Alliances through Oral History, Digital Storytelling and Collaboration,’ Montreal, Concordia University, 8 February 2008

‘On Rivers and Memory,’ Roundtable, Confluences: On Rivers, History and Memory, Niche Water Network, University of British Columbia, 15-16 November 2007

‘The Woods and Meadows of Gagetown,’ German Historical Institute, Washington DC, Cold War Environmental History Conference, 23 March 2007

‘Unsettled: the Cold War at Gagetown NB,’ American Society for Environmental History, Baton Rouge LA, Mar 1, 2007

‘The embodied implications of the Columbia Treaty,’ Festschriftkonference in honor of Prof. Paul Weiler, Harvard University, 4 Nov 2006′

‘Grieving a market garden,’ American Society for Environmental History, St Paul, Minn, April 2006

‘Smells Like: Sources of Uncertainty in the History of an Environment’, Arpents, Carleton University 12 May 2005‘Local Water Diversely Known,’ Society for the History of Technology, Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, 8 October 2004

‘Nuclear Generating Stations as Landscapes and Taskscapes in Canadian Hinterlands,’ ICOHTEC conference, Technological Landscapes, Bochum Germany 20 August 2004

‘The disruptive democracy of smell: appraising risk at the Bruce Heavy Water plant’, Canadian Historical Association, Quebec City meetings, 27 May 2001 and Green College Seminar, 5 February 2002

Addresses by Invitation

2010 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History, York Univeristy, 20 April 2010

‘Our Bodies, Our Histories of Technology and the Environment,’ Centre of Digital Storytelling (CURA) Concordia University, Montreal 18 June 2009

‘Woodlands, Meadows and an NATO Training Ground: Dioxin as Dénouement,’ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, 24 April 2009

‘Unsettled: Woods, Meadows and Memory of North Atlantic Alliances at Gagetown’, Rural History Colloquium, University of Guelph, 15 February 2008

‘Local Water Diversely Known,’ Annual Canadian Studies Lecture, Western Michigan University, 3 Oct 2007

As Henrietta Harvey Lecturer, Memorial University of Newfoundland, September 2008

i) Public lecture ‘Hooked Rugs of Naked Ladies: Family Life and Material and Emotional Strategies in the Shadow of Base Gagetown’

ii) Talk ‘The Tangled Lines of Ecology: the Columbia River Treaty Dam (BC), a Biologist and Her Market Garden’
‘The Technical and the Sensual: knowing and grieving a market garden,’ University of Toronto Department of History, Social Justice and History Group, 17 November 2005

‘Local Water Diversely Known,’ Shannon Lecture in Environmental History, Carleton University, Ottawa, 12 November 2004

‘Working Knowledge of the Insensible,’ Plenary Address, Technology and the Body Conference, November 4-6, 2004, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Canada

‘Managing Radiation Danger as National Culture: Navy Men, Cowboys and Fishermen,’ Canada Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 17 December 2003

‘Living by dam sites’, Selkirk College, Castlegar BC, 17 March 2003

‘Knowing Good Water,’ Nelson Women’s Centre, Nelson BC 18 March 2003

‘Knowing Good Water’, Canada Seminar, Oxford University, 1 May 2003

‘National Cultures of Risk: Radiation Protection in Nuclear Industries’, Hagley Research Seminar Series, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington Delaware, 8 May 2003

‘Water in Walkerton: a local perspective,’ Vancouver Public Library and the Necessary Voices Society, 18 February 2003

‘The tacit, the timely and the material body,’ Stanford University, Cultural Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, April 9, 2001 and Green College, University of British Columbia, 16 March 2001

‘Notes for a more sensuous history of twentieth century Canada,’

-History, McMaster University, Hamilton Ont, 12 October 2000

-History, University of Waterloo, 24 October 2000

-History, Carleton University, 16 November 2000

-St Mary’s College, Calgary, 9 February 2001