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Hi there,
The MacKay Lecture Series at Dalhousie=20
will interest some of you. The theme is=20
Sustainability: Past, Present, Future. The first=20
lecture is this Thursday evening.
Cheers,
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
Title: "Sustainability and Resilience in Atlantic Canada: A Long=
View"
Speaker: Graeme Wynn, Department of=20
Geography, University of British Columbia
Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Potter Auditorium, Kenneth C. Rowe=20
Management Building, Dalhousie University
6100 University=20
Avenue, Halifax (across from the Dalhousie=20
Arts Centre & the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium)
"Graeme Wynn is a historical geographer and=20
environmental historian of world renown, who in a=20
career spanning almost forty years has made=20
formative contributions to the study of forest=20
exploitation, conservation, and management;=20
histories of migration and settlement; and the=20
intersections of environment and empire. He has=20
been a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field of=20
environmental history, in which his=20
contributions=97from =93Timber Colony=94 in 1981=20
through to =93Canada and Arctic North America=94 in=20
2007=97have been associated with distinctive and=20
wide-ranging impacts. =93Timber Colony=94, Wynn=92s=20
first book, examined the impact of commercial=20
capital in the form of the timber trade on the=20
environment and society of early New Brunswick.=20
His most recent book, =93Canada and Arctic North=20
America: An Environmental History,=94 describes and=20
interprets the changing material environment of=20
half a continent over some 10,000 years."
More info at=20
http://arts.dal.ca/Research/Research%20Activities/MacKay_Series_2009-1.php
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<font size=3D4>Hi there,<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The MacKay
Lecture Series at Dalhousie will interest some of you. The theme is
Sustainability: Past, Present, Future. The first lecture is this
Thursday evening.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Cheers,<br>
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Patricia
L. Chalmers<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Halifax<br>
<br>
Title:<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>
"Sustainability and Resilience in Atlantic Canada: A Long
View"<br>
Speaker:<x-tab> </x-tab>
Graeme Wynn, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia<br>
Date:<x-tab> </x-tab>
<x-tab> </x-tab>September 17,
2009<br>
Time:<x-tab> </x-tab>7:30pm<br>
Place:<x-tab> </x-tab>Potter Auditorium, Kenneth C. Rowe
Management Building, Dalhousie University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>6100 University
Avenue, Halifax (across from the Dalhousie Arts Centre
& the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium)<br><br>
<br>
"Graeme Wynn is a historical geographer and environmental historian
of world renown, who in a career spanning almost forty years has made
formative contributions to the study of forest exploitation,
conservation, and management; histories of migration and settlement; and
the intersections of environment and empire. He has been a pioneer
in the interdisciplinary field of environmental history, in which his
contributions=97from =93Timber Colony=94 in 1981 through to =93Canada and Ar=
ctic
North America=94 in 2007=97have been associated with distinctive and
wide-ranging impacts. =93Timber Colony=94, Wynn=92s first book, examin=
ed
the impact of commercial capital in the form of the timber trade on the
environment and society of early New Brunswick. His most recent book,
=93Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History,=94 describes
and interprets the changing material environment of half a continent over
some 10,000 years."<br><br>
More info at
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9-1.php" eudora=3D"autourl">
http://arts.dal.ca/Research/Research%20Activities/MacKay_Series_2009-1.php<b=
r>
<br>
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