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Peter Kitay

Teacher
Ontario Secondary Schools Federation / Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Participates in 1 Session

Peter Kitay teaches History with the Ottawa District School Board.  His professional and academic interests include Industrial Heritage and Environmental History and the ways in which these intersect with education, culture, and environmental change.  P.Kitay "Industrial Heritage Conservation as Resistance: Environmental History and Post-Industrial Landscapes" Capstone Seminar Series: (Re)Negotiating Artifacts of Canadian Narratives of Identity, 4, no.1 (Spring 2014); P.Kitay with D.MacFarlane "Hydraulic Imperialism: Hydroelectric Development and Treaty 9 in the Abitibi Region" 46, no.3 (2016): 380-397.

Sessions in which Peter Kitay participates

Tuesday 30 August, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Past efforts to conserve and interpret industrial heritage have rarely acknowledged the role of industry causing damaging environmental change. But todays obvious worldwide climate change inevitably impacts our thinking about conservation. This is why we propose a Roundtable session to encourage people to take a fresh look at environmental impacts of industrial heritage.Already in the 1970s narratives of industrial history as a succession of triumphs began to be qu...