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.
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.
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.
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).
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.