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The Environment in Canada PodcastCanadian Oil Pipelines: A History of Spills & Future of SpillsJessica talks with Sean Kheraj about the history of oil pipeline development in Canada and why spills are way more frequent and more damaging than is often communicated - in fact they're inevitable no matter how good technology gets. Sierra Club Canada has explainers on why building new infrastructure for oil and gas is NOT viable economically nor in our national interest (even LNG is not viable, let alone oil). The explainer also details why renewable energy is a far better investment: https://www.sierraclub.ca/lng-national-interest-canada/ & https://www...2025-07-0854 min
Stuff You Missed in History ClassGreat Epizootic of 1872The epizootic of 1872 was a massive outbreak of a flulike illness primarily among horses in North America, Central America, and some islands in the Caribbean. Research: "WHEN A FLU REINED IN NEW YORK." States News Service, 28 Apr. 2020. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A622209555/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=2bf7de71. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025. Andrews, Thomas G. “Influenza’s Progress: The Great Epizootic Flu of 1872-73 in the North American West.” Utah Historical Quarterly. Vol. 89. No. 1. Andrews, Thomas G. “The Great Horse Flu of 1872-1873.” The Bill Lane Center for the American West. Stan...2025-02-1938 min
The Conversation PieceSean Kheraj: Canadians’ Troubled History with Oil PipelinesHow we interact with nature changes over time. Canada has a long and rocky history with pipelines. The opposition has taken different forms. Understanding the nuances can tell us a lot about environmental concerns over long periods of time.Sean Kheraj is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Vice-Provost, Academic, at Toronto Metropolitan University. Sean spoke at The Walrus Talks Nature on March 19, 2024.This episode of The Conversation Piece features content from Manulife presents The Walrus Talks Nature, supported by Trans Canada Trail. To register for upcoming events ha...2024-04-1109 min
Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790In this podcast episode, Nicole O'Byrne talks to Thomas Peace about his book, The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790 published by UBC Press in February 2024.
In The Slow Rush of Colonization, historian Thomas Peace traces the 100-year context that underpins the widespread Euro-American/Euro-Canadian settlement of the Maritime Peninsula.
Thomas Peace is an associate professor of history and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College. He has authored numerous articles on the history of schooling and settler colonialism, historical relationships between the Mi’kmaw and Acadians, and the influence of digital tech...2024-02-1651 min
Nature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2022-11-2500 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2022-06-2800 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2022-03-2700 min
Below the RadarPerforming History & Land in Vancouver’s Stanley Park — with Selena CouturePerformance scholar and Associate Professor in the Dramatic Arts department at the University of Alberta Selena Couture joins Am Johal to talk about her latest book, Against the Current and Into the Light. Selena speaks about how her book explores varying historical and contemporary performances involving Stanley Park through language, relationships to land, and the unlearning of settler knowledges. She draws from colonial and counter-colonial performances such as the 1946 Jubilee show, and the public performances of Native Brotherhood of BC in the same year.
Selena also explores how her doctoral dissertation and the taking of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ languag...2021-12-0740 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2021-11-1400 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2021-07-1200 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2021-04-1200 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2020-09-0100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2020-07-2900 min
Meaningful Learning with Dr. Samantha CutraraIn conversation with Dr. Sean Kheraj {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 23} Imagining a New 'We'How do we teach history during COVID-19? Environmental and digital historian Dr. Sean Kheraj (York University) discusses how there are some good things to hold onto post-emergency online teaching and that a greater investment in thinking about these benefits will help us develop the skills and technologies as we need to move forward.
Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the Imagining a New 'We' video series, here: https://www.imagininganewwe.com/videos/pandemic-pedagogy
Watch our conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xT5UEtea2gY
Find Sean on Twitter https://twitter.com/seankheraj2020-05-2634 min
Meaningful Learning with Dr. Samantha CutraraIn conversation with Dr. Sean Kheraj {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 23} Imagining a New 'We'How do we teach history during COVID-19? Environmental and digital historian Dr. Sean Kheraj (York University) discusses how there are some good things to hold onto post-emergency online teaching and that a greater investment in thinking about these benefits will help us develop the skills and technologies as we need to move forward.Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the Imagining a New 'We' video series, here: https://www.imagininganewwe.com/videos/pandemic-pedagogyWatch our conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xT5UEtea2gYFind Sean on Twitter https://twitter.com/seankherajFind more about...2020-05-2634 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2020-05-1100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2020-03-0200 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2019-10-1600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2019-08-1200 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2019-05-2200 min
Explain Like I'm FivePipelines, with Sean KherajThe Alberta election is heating up, which means we're hearing a lot about pipelines. So, today we're revisiting Aaron Reynolds' conversation with Canadian and environmental history professor at York University Sean Kheraj about their history, purpose and why they're so controversial.2019-04-1000 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2019-03-2400 min
Open Minds with Christopher Balkaran#016: Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline - Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous PeoplesSend us a textTwitter: StrongnFreeCADInstagram: strngnfreeFacebook/LinkedIn: Strong and Free PodcastTumblr: strongandfreecadEmail: strongandfree2018@gmail.com Sources used in this podcast include the following:TransMountain ULC, Project Description for the Proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Project, May 2013: https://www.burnaby.ca/Assets/TMEP/Project+Description+for+the+TMEP.pdfSean Kheraj, "Historical Background Report: Trans Mountain Pipeline, 1947-2013," York University: 2014. https://vancouver.ca/images/web/pipeline/Sean-Kheraj-history-of-TMP.pdfThe National Energy Board, National Energy B...2019-02-1026 min
historychatspodcastCanadian Historians and the MediaOn Wednesday May 28, 2014 as part of the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Activehistory.ca sponsored a roundtable discussion on the presence of Canadian historians in the media. The session was chaired by Ian Milligan of the University of Waterloo and featured Ian Mosby (McMaster University), Maureen Lux (Brock University), Sean Kheraj (York University), Mark … Continue reading Canadian Historians and the Media →2019-01-2600 minHistory ChatsCanadian Historians and the MediaOn Wednesday May 28, 2014 as part of the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Activehistory.ca sponsored a roundtable discussion on the presence of Canadian historians in the media. The session was chaired by Ian Milligan of the University of Waterloo and featured Ian Mosby (McMaster University), Maureen Lux (Brock University), Sean Kheraj (York University), Mark … Continue reading Canadian Historians and the Media →2019-01-2659 minExplain Like I'm FivePipelines, with Sean KherajSean Kheraj, associate professor of Canadian and Environmental History at York University, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain energy pipelines in Canada: what they do, why we have them, and how the conversation around them has changed in the last fifty years. Recorded live at Central Cafe in Toronto.2018-11-1400 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2018-09-2600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2018-05-2300 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2018-04-0800 min
Gettin' Air with Terry GreeneSean Kheraj and Tom PeaceIn this episode, Terry Greene (@greeneterry) chats with Sean Kheraj (@seankheraj)of York University and Tom Peace (@tpcanoe) of Huron College a Canadian History open textbook sprint.2018-03-0829 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2018-02-2100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2018-02-1900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2017-11-2900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2017-09-1200 min
The ForumThe Creation of Modern Canada150 years ago three British North American colonies came together to form what was to become the world’s second largest country.To explain how this union came about and who the key players were, Bridget Kendall talks to historians Margaret Macmillan, Phillip Buckner and Sean Kheraj.Photo: The Canadian flag at an ice-hockey game (GETTY IMAGES)2017-06-1940 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2017-05-2900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2016-11-2900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2016-09-2800 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2016-05-2600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2016-03-2200 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2016-01-2500 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2015-11-2300 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2015-09-2100 min
Show Me Your MicSean Kheraj - The Web is Shifting Ground Beneath Your FeetSean Kheraj hosts Nature’s Past a podcast about environmental history research in Canada featuring lectures and interviews with authors and academics on the greatest country in the world - Canada, naturally. We talk about scheduling guests, recording groups discussions and using YouTube as a podcast platform.
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CiTR -- The CityMaking Stanley Park: Idealized Nature and Human-Environmental RelationsEnvironmental historian and author Sean Kheraj traces how this tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped shape the landscape of one of the world?s most famous urban parks. Kheraj's book, Inventing Stanley Park, examines how human forces have shaped ? and continue to shape ? this urban environmental space. Kheraj asks us to question our understanding of the 'nature' of Stanley Park, and why it is important be aware of our complex relationship with the environment. Sean Kheraj is an assistant professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto.2013-10-1658 min
CiTR -- The CityMaking Stanley Park: Idealized Nature and Human-Environmental RelationsEnvironmental historian and author Sean Kheraj traces how this tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped shape the landscape of one of the worlds most famous urban parks. Kheraj's book, Inventing Stanley Park, examines how human forces have shaped and continue to shape this urban environmental space. Kheraj asks us to question our understanding of the 'nature' of Stanley Park, and why it is important be aware of our complex relationship with the environment. Sean Kheraj is an assistant professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto.2013-10-1600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2013-09-3000 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2013-05-2900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2013-05-0500 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2013-03-3100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2013-02-2700 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2013-01-2100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-11-2600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-10-2900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-09-2400 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-09-1700 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-04-3000 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-03-2100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-02-2200 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2012-01-2500 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-11-3000 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-10-2600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-09-2100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-05-2500 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-05-1500 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-03-3000 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-02-2700 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2011-01-2400 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2010-11-2100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2010-10-2900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2010-09-2800 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2010-05-2600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2010-04-1900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2010-03-0300 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2010-01-1800 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-11-2200 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-10-2100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-09-2100 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-07-1400 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-06-1400 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-05-1900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-04-2300 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-03-1600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-02-1600 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2009-01-1900 minNature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment2008-12-1800 min