Spent the week on the Atlantic side of Costa Rica for Nipissing University’s GEOG4976 Field Camp. We stayed with Indigenous communities to learn about their traditions, cosmologies, and practices. The course was made possible by the Global Skills Opportunities funding program.
It’s strange to join “Blue Sky” when the place where I live/work (North Bay, Ontario) is branded as the “Blue Sky” region: an intermediary place between southern Ontario (capitalist investment) and northern Ontario (resource extraction. The political geographer in me cannot ignore region-making.
The best part of teaching grad courses is class discussion. We read Matthew Evenden’s “Aluminum, Commodity Chains, and the Environmental History of the Second World War” with works by Mimi Sheller and Brad Cross. MA in History students recreated Evenden’s commodity chain map.
I will be presenting on “Why Geography Matters: Reflections of Place-Based Reparative Research as a Canada Research Chair at Nipissing University (2015-2025),” as part of Nipissing University’s Undergraduate Annual Research Conference. Everyone is welcome.
Every year, the faculty in Geography at Nipissing University play against our undergrads in the annual Pangea Cup. After a decade of winning, the students finally won. What a great event to bring students and faculty together.
A conversation between Dr. Charles Farrugia from the National Archives of Malta/University of Malta, and Dr. Kirsten Greer to discuss her Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 2020).
