BISHOP’S UNIVERSITY HOSTING THE 2016 NESTVAL CONFERENCE!

The New England – St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (NESTVAL), a regional division of the American Association of Geographers, will be holding its annual conference at Bishop’s University on October 14-15, 2016. Some 200 scholars and students are expected to attend this event, which will include a Geography Bowl, field trips, paper sessions and a poster competition. Faculty members and students are invited to submit proposals for presentations on any topic broadly related to environment and geography. Dr. Konrad Gajewski, Professor of Geography at the University of Ottawa, will be delivering the keynote address. His talk, entitled “Evolution of the North American Ecosystem from the Full Glacier to the Anthropocene,” will address the different changes that regional climate has undergone from the glacial period to the present and the ways in which human activity have affected vegetation over the past 15 000 years.

The complete conference program is now available on the NESTVAL conference website.