Although pandemic restrictions delayed the 2021 autumn series, the Shannon Lectures in History are just around the corner with a spring 2022 edition.
The Shannon Lectures in History are a series of thematically linked public lectures offered at Carleton University and made possible through a major gift from a long-time friend of the Department of History.
The spring 2022 lectures will explore historical and transnational perspectives on the management of natural resources and the environment in Canada.
Relations between humans and non-human inhabitants of the environment are old of several millennia. The history of these relations involves regulations of all sorts about use and preservation, contested or collaborative. In the making of these regulations, users, activists, government agencies and civil society organizations alike have shared contrasting traditions and perspectives on the ecology of natural resources. As recent global climatic trends suggest ominous cataclysmic environmental implications for both the environment and its users, the issue of natural resources and the efficient management of the environment to guarantee the continuous sustainable consumption of the environment and its natural resources has appeared in sharp focus.
The lecture series involve a predominantly Canada-oriented range of environmental experiences, and feature corresponding transnational perspectives, in conversations with African environmental/resource management experiences/practices from Ghana. Proceedings are aimed at generating historical knowledge of our collective transnational experience of the environment and its resources, which, hopefully, should add to existing knowledge in history, government policy formulation, environmental protection efforts, legal frameworks on the environment, resource management, among others.
Mr. Stephen Osei-Owusu (Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate, History) will convene the virtual lectures with support by Professor Dominique Marshall (Chair, the Shannon Endowment Committee, History).
Friday, May 27th, 2022 | 12:00 - 1:00 PMSpeaker: Dr. Jason Colby (Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Victoria)Details and registration
Friday, June 10th, 2022 | 12:00 - 1:00 PMSpeaker: Dr. Joseph Aggrey-Fynn (Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Cape Coast)Details and registration
Friday, June 24th, 2022 | 12:00 - 1:00 PMSpeaker: Dr. Shireen Hassim (Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University)Details and registration
Friday, July 8th, 2022 | 12:00 - 1:00 PMSpeaker: Dr. Ronald Rudin (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Concordia UniversityDetails and registration
These sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the 2022 Spring Shannon Lectures webpage.