Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum
Call for Papers, Twelfth Annual Workshop
Friday, July 25, 2025
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Deadline: May 2, 2025
The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) brings together a group of scholars exploring the environmental history of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. This group first met in 2012 at the Massachusetts Historical Society with the basic premise that the environmental history of this transnational region has its own story to tell. For several years, the group has sponsored a workshop for which participants submit pre-circulated papers that are then discussed in-depth, going well beyond the typical level of engagement authors get at a standard academic conference. Many participants have since published their papers as articles, chapters of books, or essays, or have used the feedback to advance their scholarly agenda and win competitive research grants.
The NEAR-EH group is once again happy to announce a call for papers for its 2025 workshop. This year’s workshop will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick on July 25, 2025. This workshop will host upwards of ten to twelve scholars of any discipline working on the environmental history of the transnational Northeast, ranging geographically from Newfoundland and Labrador south to the Chesapeake Bay and west to the Appalachian Mountains and the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River. While we limit paper submissions so as to ensure a meaningful experience that includes close examination and discussion of the papers, anyone is welcome to attend the workshop by notifying the organizers in advance.
Please submit proposals of 250 words with a shortened CV (max 2 pages) to Mark McLaughlin at mark.j.mclaughlin@maine.edu no later than May 2, 2025. Full-length papers of 15-25 pages are to be submitted by June 20, 2025, to be circulated to the group in anticipation of the July 25 workshop.
For questions related to the workshop program, contact Mark McLaughlin: mark.j.mclaughlin@maine.edu. For on-the-ground details related to Mount Allison University, contact Hannah Lane: hlane@mta.ca.