Tri-University History Conference 2012
Histories North and South
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
We welcome proposals for individual papers and complete panels from graduate students and established scholars in all historical fields, especially, but not exclusively, on topics concerning aspects of the circumpolar arctic.
In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, “Histories North and South,” we are honoured to announce our keynote speaker, Dr. Julia Lajus, Director of the Center for Environmental and Technological History at the European University at St. Petersburg. Dr. Lajus is a specialist in the history of science and environment in arctic Russia, and this will be her first visit to Canada. Her talk is entitled “The Circulation of Environmental Knowledge: Models of Development and Images of Northernness in 20th-c. Arctic Exploration in Scandinavia, Canada, and Russia.”