Bringing
Subsistence Out of the Shadows: A Workshop on Subsistence
Economies.
The
Department of History at Nipissing University and the
Canada Research Chair in Environmental History are pleased
to announce a two-day workshop on subsistence
relationships.
Bringing
Subsistence Out of the Shadows aims to
bring together emerging scholarship on subsistence and
mixed economies, both contemporary and throughout history.
Subsistence relationships illustrate the complexity of not
only economic exchanges, but also of human/nature
interactions, and discussions at the workshop will draw
upon these complex networks to help understand the
continuing significance of subsistence at different scales.
13 pre-selected papers will form the spine of the
discussion and the keynote address will be provided by
Colin Duncan, author of The
Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and
the Rest of Nature.
The workshop will take place at Monastery Hall, Nipissing
University in North Bay, Ontario, on October
2-4th.
It is free and open to anyone.
While
the subsistence scale has often been seen as a
stepping-stone to larger, more complex relationships of
exchange, local and subsistence economies have received a
recent revival due to both environmental and economic
crises. North Bay has a long history of vibrant subsistence
and small-scale productions, including wild berries,
fisheries, and forestry. On Friday evening (October
2nd)
the panel discussion Contemplating Local Food: An Evening at
the Kennedy Gallery will
showcase, at the Kennedy Gallery in Downtown North Bay,
some of those involved in these relationships.
For more information on the panel click here, for
a schedule of papers and presenters click
here, or
contact Bruce Erickson at brucee at nipissingu dot ca
(replace "at" and "dot" with appropriate
symbols).