CANADIAN MOUNTAIN STUDIES INITIATIVE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

Thinking Mountains 2015Interdisciplinary Mountain Studies Conference

Jasper National Park May 5-8

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STEERING COMMITTEE

Andy Bush Elizabeth Halpenny

Eric Higgs David Hik John Hull

Jessamyn Manson Sherrill Meropoulis

Liza Piper Zac Robinson

Stephen Slemon Bill Snow

Craig Steinback

CONFERENCE COORDINATORS

Jamie Bradshaw Jill Cameron

SPONSORS / PARTNERS

Alliance for Mountain Environments, Thompson Rivers University The Alpine Club of Canada Faculty of Arts, UAlberta

Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, UAlberta Faculty of Science, UAlberta

Friends of Jasper National Park Jasper Artists Guild

MEC The Mountain Legacy Project, University of Victoria

Parks Canada Travel Alberta

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Interdisciplinary Mountain Studies Conference

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

May 5 - 8, 2015

Sawridge Inn and Conference Centre, Jasper, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

www.mountains.ualberta.ca

TUESDAY, MAY 5 18.00 – Dinner – on own Public Keynote Address: [Chief Paul Ballroom, Sawridge Inn and Conference Centre] 19.00 – Opening Prayers [Chief Paul Ballroom] 19.15-19.25 – Welcome and Opening Address: Dr David Hik, Department of Biological Sciences, UAlberta [Chief Paul Ballroom] 19.25-20.45 – Keynote Address: John Geiger, author and CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society [Chief Paul Ballroom] Lecture followed by a Reception and Hor D’oeuvres [Champs Lounge, Sawridge Inn] Sponsored by the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, UAlberta

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 8.30-8.45 – Welcome and Opening Remarks: Dr Stephen Slemon, Department of English and Film Studies, UAlberta [Chief Paul Ballroom] 8.45-9.45 – Morning Plenary: Parks Canada, “Managing National Parks in a Modern World” [Chief Paul Ballroom] 9.45-10.00 – Coffee/Tea Break [Lower Lobby] 10.00-11.45 – Concurrent Sessions

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1.1 Mountain Literature and 19th Century North American Identities [Boardroom 1] Chair and comment: Katie Ives, Alpinist Magazine

Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College, “Purple Mountain Majesties”

Joseph Taylor, Simon Fraser University, “Mounting Passions: Nature, Gender, and Sex in John Muir’s Letters”

Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon, University of Alberta, “The Shining Mountains”

1.2 Alpine Glaciers: Current and Projected Global Impacts [Boardroom 2] Chair and comment: Andrew Bush, University of Alberta; and Ulrich Kamp, University of Montana

Andrew Bush*, S. Emily Collier, Edward Pollock, University of Alberta, “Numerical modelling of alpine glacier mass balance for the Rockies and the Himalaya”

Ulrich Kamp*, Caleb Pan, Don Alford, University of Montana, “Assessment of the Role of Glaciers in the Stream Flow of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, Pamir and Tien Shan Mountains”

Caleb Pan* and Ulrich Kamp, University of Montana, “Rare Ice: Finding Mongolia's Glaciers”

Chris Gat*, Mary Sanseverino, Michael Whitney, University of Victoria, “Mountain Legacy Explorer: Thinking Mountains with a Web-delivered Application”

1.3 Mixed Mountain Media [Boardroom 3] Chair and comment: PearlAnn Reichwein, University of Alberta

Melissa Gwyn, University of California Santa Cruz, “I want to see my mountains”

Klara Maisch, Alaskan artist and educator, “Painting Mountains: A Visual Approach”

Amber Phillippe, University of Alaska Fairbanks, “Imagining Glaciers through Art”

Kristen Walsh, University of Victoria, “Thinking Weather in Mountains Experience”

Clayton Whitt, University of British Columbia, “Everything is Mixed Up: Experiencing the Elements of Climate Change in the Bolivian Andes”

1.4 Resilience and Conservation in Mountains (short presentations followed by panel Discussion) [cordoned off section of Chief Paul Ballroom] Chair and panel moderator: David Hik, University of Alberta

Jeff Kneteman*, David Hik, Government of Alberta and University of Alberta, “Resilient Bighorn Sheep: 40 years of counting sheep in the Northern Rocky Mountains”

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John Wilmshurst, Parks Canada, “Efforts to protect mountain caribou populations”

Majid Iravani*, Jeff Kneteman, David Hik, University of Alberta, “Implications of a changing climate for bighorn sheep in the Northern Rocky Mountains”

Richard Hobbs, University of Western Australia, “Restoring disturbed environments”

12.00-13.00 – Lunch provided to conference registrants [Walter’s Dining Room] 13.30-15.15 – Concurrent Sessions

2.1 The Role of Mountains in the (De)Construction of German-Austrian National Identity [Boardroom 1] Chair and comment: TBA

Wilfried Wilms, University of Denver, “Mountains as Monuments: The ‘White War’ in the Publications of The Alpine Club”

Harald Höbusch, University of Kentucky, “‘Steel your arms, your senses, and your will’: German (Himalaya) Mountaineering between the World Wars”

Kamaal Haque, Dickinson College, “Luis Trenker and the Myth of South Tyrol”

Sean Ireton, University of Missouri, “Deconstructing the Alps: Elfriede Jelinek’s Critique of Austrian History and Identity”

2.2 Managing Ecological Change in Mountainous Environments – Socio-ecological Dimensions of Imagining an Uncertain Future [Boardroom 2] Chair and comment: Mary Sanseverino, University of Victoria

Eric Higgs, University of Victoria, “New Natures: Rapid Change and Mountain Landscapes”

Tanya Taggart-Hodge, University of Victoria, “130 Years of Change: An Analysis of Vegetation Patterns and Fluvial Geomorphology of the Bow and Elbow Watersheds”

Jenna Falk, Galiano Conservancy Association, “Park Management Legacies and Climate Change Through the Camera Lens: Management Challenges Observed Through Scientific Repeat Photography”

Rod Davis, University of Victoria, “Wild Design: A Social-Ecological Resilience Framework for Wildlife Conservation”

Heike Lettrari, University of Victoria, “The Mountain Pine Beetle, Climate Change, and Scientists: Understanding the Implications of Rapid Ecological Change”

2.3 Literary Mountains [Boardroom 3] Chair and comment: Dianne Chisholm, University of Alberta

Helen Mort, “From summit to stanza: the trouble with mountaineering poetry”

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Karen Stockham, University of St. Mark and St. John, “The feminine stamp”: exploring the interface between gender and mountaineering in selected women’s mountaineering literature”

Augustine Nchuojie, University of Yaounde, “Mount Cameroon: An Ecoliterary Muse undiscovered? Tracing the Ecoliterary Significance of a Mountain in an Ecoliterary Limbo”

Catherine Addison, University of Zululand, “Rushdie’s Everest: The Limits of Religious Doubt”

Thomas Wharton, University of Alberta, “Climbing Mount Imaginary: Experience of Nature in Lucid Dreaming”

2.4 Caves and Ice in Western North America [cordoned off section of Chief Paul Ballroom] Chair and comment: Jessamyn Manson, University of Alberta

Roger Wheate, Matthew Beedle, and Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, “The Glaciers of Jasper National Park 1914-2014”

Charles (Chas) J. Yonge, Yonge Cave and Karst Consulting Inc. and the Alberta Speleological Society, “The Systematics of Perennial Ice found in Western North American Ice Caves”

Diana Tirlea*, Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Christopher N. Jass, Greg Horne, Dave Citchley, Royal Alberta Museum, “Pollen, Poop, and Palaeoenvironments: Using Pollen Analysis in Cave Studies, Jasper National Park”

15.15-15.30 – Coffee/Tea Break [Lower Lobby] 15.15-16.00 – Poster Session #1 [Lower Lobby] 16.00-17.45 – Concurrent Sessions 3.1 Mountains and Masculinity [Boardroom 1] Chair and comment: Dianne Chisholm, University of Alberta

Caroline Schaumann, Emory University, “Topographies of Masculinity: Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century”

Catherine W. Hollis, University of California, Berkeley, “The Mountaineer as Bloomsbury Artist: George Mallory’s Aesthetic Alpinism”

Julie Rak, University of Alberta, “Gender and Experience: Lene Gammelgaard, Jon Krakauer, and the 1996 Everest Disaster”

Niall Fink, University of Alberta, “Into the Violence: Writing the Brawl on Everest”

3.2 Roundtable - Serpents, Bees, and Trees: Three Cultural Expressions in the Appalachian Mountains and the Benefits of Comparative Mountain Studies [Boardroom 2]

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Chair and comment: Katherine Ledford, University of Kentucky

Katherine Ledford, University of Kentucky, “Comparing Mountains: Studying Appalachia in Little Switzerland, North Carolina”

Melanie Harsha, Appalachian State University, “‘These signs shall follow’: The Serpent Handling Religious Tradition in Appalachia and Reality Television”

Robyn Seamon, Appalachian State University, “Buzzing around the World: Mountain Beekeeping Traditions in Appalachia in Comparative Context”

Karen Russo, Appalachian State University, “Appalachian Mountain Ecotourism as an Economically Sustainable and Sublime Experience”

3.3 Mountain Space and Mobility [Boardroom 3] Chair and comment: Anna Thompson, University of Otago

Ben Bradley, University of Toronto, “‘Lucerne No Longer has an Excuse to Exist’:

Mobility, the Tourist Gaze, and Park Aesthetics in the Canadian Rockies”

Elizabeth Halpenny* and Farhad Moghimefar, University of Alberta, “A comparison of visitors’ knowledge and awareness of Rocky Mountain World Heritage sites”

Harold Ritchins, Thompson Rivers University, “Innovation Leadership in Mountain Tourism Experiences: The Evolution of Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing”

Heike A. Schänzel* and John S. Hull, AUT University, “Understanding the Family Ski Experience at Sun Peaks Mountain Resort: Canada’s Alpine Village”

Edward Slavishak, Susquehanna University, “Blind Curves: Crashing Cars in 1950s Appalachia”

3.4 Wilderness and Mountain Parks [cordoned off section of Chief Paul Ballroom] Chair and comment: Philip Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia

Debbie Mucha, Alberta Parks, “Acquiring an Improved Understanding of Willmore Wilderness Park Visitors, Alberta, Canada”

Adam Linnard, York University, “Differently Wilded: The Many Modes of Wilderness in Tokumm Creek, Kootenay National Park”

Nimolak Kang, Parks Canada, “Wilderness: The New-Canadian Framework”

Qi Chen and PearlAnn Reichwein, University of Alberta, “The Village Lake Louise Controversy and Social Activism: Ski Resorts, Public Advocacy, and Environmental Politics in Banff National Park, 1964-1979”

Sabine Buchczyk, University of Munich, “‘The Mystique of Mt. McKinley': Creating a Wilderness Lodging Experience in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska”

17.45-19.30 – Dinner – on own 19.30-21.00 – Evening Public Plenary: Writing and Mountaineering: “The Most Literary of all Sports”? A Conversation with Katie Ives and Pat Deavoll [Location TBA]

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Moderator: Dr Dianne Chisholm, Department of English and Film Studies, UAlberta Sponsored by the Alpine Club of Canada

THURSDAY, MAY 7 8.30-8.45 – Opening Remarks, Dr Craig Steinback, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, UAlberta [Chief Paul Ballroom] 8.45-9.45 – Plenary, Dr Buhhda Basnyat, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, “High Altitude Pilgrimage Medicine” [Chief Paul Ballroom] 9.45-10.00 – Coffee/Tea Break [Lower Lobby of the Inn] 10.00-11.45 – Concurrent Sessions 4.1 Mountain Refuge [Boardroom 1] Chair and comment: Tom Hinch, University of Alberta

Dwight Hines, Point Park Hines, “Thinking of the Unsaid: Displacement in a Gentrifying Mountain Town”

Judy Sterner, University of Calgary, “Mountains as refuge or ‘a good place to live’?: The Mandara Mountains of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria”

Jeremy Mikecz, University of California-Davis, “Landscapes of Refuge and Resistance: Indigenous People and Peasants, and Mountains”

Doris Hallama, University of Innsbruck, “The Architecture of Alpine Huts or How the Bourgeois Invaded Alpine Landscape”

Tom Hinch, University of Alberta, “Whose Mountain Refuge? Place Meaning through the Lens of an Alpine-based Sport Event”

4.2 Mountain Adventure, Experience, and Advocacy [Boardroom 2] Chair and comment: Elizabeth Halpenny, University of Alberta

Anna Thompson, University of Otago, “Mountain guiding and resilience in the face of climate change”

Halima Kilunguh*, Rik Leemans, Pantaleo Munishi, Bas Amelung, Wageningen University, “Implication of Global Warming on the Highest Mountain Adventure Tourism in Africa: The case of Kilimanjaro National Park”

Mary W. Benjamin* and Michael Quinn, University of Calgary, “The Mountaineering Experience: Determining the Critical Factors and Assessing Management Practices”

Maud Vanpoulle, University of Lyon, “Accidentology of mountain sports: Perspectives offered by modelling post-accident qualitative data with a systemic approach”

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Sandra Borton, University of Northern British Columbia, “Connecting Mountain Experiences and Adventure Advocacy”

4.3 Immersive Mountains [Boardroom 3] Chair and comment: Peter G. Wells, Dalhousie University

Henry Moller*, Bryan Sher, Bertram Denzel, Kunal Sudan, Mark Havitz, University of Toronto, “Natural High: Immersive Mountain Environments and Wellbeing Creation”

Paul Heintzman, University of Ottawa, “Mountain Recreation and Spirituality: A Synthesis of Empirical Research”

Robin Reid* and Terry Palechuk, Thompson Rivers University, “Two Canadian Mountaineering Camps: Participant motivations and sense of place in a wilderness setting”

Ruth Alexander, Colorado State University, “Lessons on a Mountaintop: An Environmental History of Longs Peak”

4.4 Mountain Wildlife [cordoned off section of Chief Paul Ballroom] Chair and comment: Jessamyn Manson, University of Alberta

Greg Horne* and Saakje Hazenberg, Parks Canada, “Bats in the Mountains: What about Jasper?”

Jamie Lantz* and Shelley M. Alexander, University of Calgary, “Coyote (Canis latrans) occurrence relative to human use in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, Alberta”

Shailyn Drukis, Wilfred Laurier University, “Effective Consideration of Wildlife in Cumulative Effects: The case of the southwest Yukon”

12.00-13.00 – Lunch provided to conference registrants [Walter’s Dining Room] 13.30-17.00 – Optional afternoon field trips/workshop

(i) The Columbia Icefield Visitors Centre, Icefield Parkway (ii) Walk in the Past, a historic walking tour of the Jasper townsite, put on by the Friends of Jasper National Park (iii) Repeat Mountain Photography Workshop, with researchers from the University of Victoria’s Mountain Legacy Project (http://explore.mountainlegacy.ca). (iv) Medicine Walk, with Ojibway Elder Jim O’Chiese (Knowledge Keeper, Yellowhead Tribal College): Spend a few hours on a walk at Buffalo Prairie, just south of the Jasper townsite, and learn about local plants and Indigenous connections to the landscape.

17.45-19.00 – Conference Banquet

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Dinner provided to conference registrants [Chief Paul Ballroom, Sawridge Inn] 19.45-21.00 – Evening public event: Slideshow by Chic Scott, “Filming The Eiger Sanction” [Jasper Activity Centre, Multi-Purpose Room] Join writer, guidebook author, and Rockies’ legend Chic Scott tell the tale of working on climbing’s ultimate cult classic, The Eiger Sanction (1975). Scott pulls back the curtain on a different time when, before the luxury and no-risk factor of green screens, movie stars like Clint Eastwood performed their own climbing stunts – even on the north face of The Eiger! This fun, behind-the-scene glimpse is free to all conference registrants. FRIDAY, MAY 8 8.30-8.45 – Opening Remarks, Dr Liza Piper, Department of History and Classics, UAlberta [Chief Paul Ballroom] 8.45-9.45 – Plenary, Dr H.V. Nelles, Department of History, McMaster University, “Seeing and Not Seeing Mountains” [Chief Paul Ballroom] 9.45-10.00 – Coffee/Tea Break [Lower Lobby] 9.45-10.15 – Poster Session #2 [Lower Lobby] 10.15-12.00 – Concurrent Sessions 5.1 Re-Thinking Mountains: Superstition, Sovereignty, Science and Socialism [Boardroom 1] Chair and comment: Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College

Dawn Hollis, University of St Andrews, “Shedding Light on Mountain Gloom: Evidence for Mountain Activity and Appreciation before 1750”

Peter H. Hansen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, “Making Up Mountaineering and Enlightenment”

Michael Reidy, Montana State University, “How Mountaineering Changes Science”

Maggie Greene, Montana State University, “A Mountaineering Party of 600 Million: Towards a History of Mountaineering in Modern China”

5.2 Mountain Narratives [Boardroom 2] Chair and comment: Julie Rak, University of Alberta

Randolph Haluza-DeLay, King’s College, “Climbing Shasta with John Muir and my

Younger Self”

Veronica Belafi, University of Alberta, “Travel Guide Poetry: Mount Rainier’s ‘capacity for fact’”

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Patricia Louw, University of Zululand, “What does the Mountain say? Place and Identity in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss”

Nkosinathi Sithole, University of Zululand, “(Re)Imagining the sacred mountain in Ibandla lama Nazaretha: From Nhlangakazi to Khenana”

Matic Večko, University of Ljubljana, “In the Realm of the Goldenhorn: Mountains of Slovenian Cinema”

5.3 Participatory Mountains [Boardroom 3] Chair and comment: John Hull, Thompson Rivers University

Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia, “A Participatory Ecological Approach to Outdoor Ethics”

Genevieve Huneault* and Philip M. Mullins, University of British Columbia, “Exploring Fly-Fishing to Inform Outdoor Education Theories and Practices in Place Connectedness and Corporeal Mobility: Developing a Heuristic Model”

Farhad Moghimehfar* and Elizabeth Halpenny, University of Alberta, “Activity-based study of pro-environmental behavior among campers in Kananaskis Country, Alberta”

Vivian DeMuth, “Field Notes on Alberta Rocky Mountain Culture and Ecology”

Andrew Holden, University of Bedfordshire, “Enhancing our connection to nature: an opportunity within mountain environments?”

12.00-13.00 – Lunch provided to conference registrants [Walter’s Dining Room] 13.30-15.15 – Concurrent Sessions

6.1 Peasants, Professionals, and Pundits: Knowledge Transfer and Mountain Environments [Boardroom 1] Chair and comment: Michael Reidy, Montana State University

Kerwin Lee Klein, University of California, Berkeley, “Ice Time: Peasants, Patrons, and the Emergence of Glaciology, 1750-1875”

Amrita Dhar, University of Michigan, “High Knowledge: Across Peaks and Passes of the Himalaya in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”

Carolin F. Roeder, Harvard University, “The Congress System: Institutionalizing Networks of Alpine Knowledge, 1857-1932”

6.2 Impacting Mountains: War, Earthquakes, and Floods [Boardroom 2]

Chair and comment: Andy Bush, University of Alberta

Richard Tucker, University of Michigan, “Environmental Impacts of Warfare in Mountain Regions”

Shah F. Khan*, Ulrich Kamp, Lewis Owen, University of Montana, “The Years of Landsliding in the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake Region”

Debbie Mucha, University of Alberta and Parks Canada, “Flood Recovery and Renewal in Kananaskis Parks”

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Eric Strahorn, Florida Gulf Coast University, “A Preliminary History of the Contradictions in Flood Control in the Himalayas”

6.3 Mountain Places, Language, and the Sacred [Boardroom 3] Chair and comment: Daniel Bender, University of Toronto

Benedict Fullalove, Alberta College of Art and Design, “Naming, Remembering and Forgetting: Mountain Toponymy and the Survey of the Alberta British Columbia Boundary Commission, 1913-1920”

Ian MacRae and Tadzio Richards, “There’s Coal Bed Methane in them there Mountains! Land, Language, Culture, Community and Resistance in the Pacific Northwest”

Bruce Cutknife, Samson Cree First Nation, “First Nation's Sacred Mountain Places”

Sean Atkins, MacEwan University, “Blue Maple Sugar: Among the Mountains of Ontario”

Bill Snow, Nakoda First Nation, “Stoney Nakoda Sacred Mountain Places” 15.15-15.30 – Coffee/Tea Break [Lower Lobby] 15:30-17.15 – Concurrent Sessions 7.1 Honouring the Legacy of Dr Brent Cuthbertson: Uncharted Territory [Boardroom 1] Chair and comment: Bob Henderson, McMaster and Brock universities

Ryan Howard, University of Northern British Columbia

Stephanie Potter, Lakehead University

Tom Potter, Lakehead University

7.2 Stories of Identity, Landscape, Circulation, and Climate Change in the Himalayas [Boardroom 2] Chair and comment: Peter Hansen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sara Shneiderman, University of British Columbia, “Mountains as Identity Markers: High Tropes in Himalayan Cultural Politics”

Frances Garrett, University of Toronto, “Therapeutic Landscapes and Mountain Interiors”

Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, “Mountain Subjectivities and Himalayan Histories of Circulation”

Pallavi V. Das, Lakehead University, “Towards a People’s History of Climate Change: A Case Study of Western Himalayas in India”

7.3 Socio-economic Impacts of Changing Climate and Environment [Boardroom 3] Chair and comment: Jeff Kavanaugh, University of Alberta

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Scott Slocombe, Wilfred Laurier University, “Evolving Land and Resource Regimes: The Case of the southwest Yukon”

Vishwambhar Prasad Sati, Mizoram University (Central), “Altitudinal Zonations of Forest Biodiversity and the Socio-Economic Impacts in Mountain Regions: A Case Study of Garhwal Himalaya”

Stéphanie Piffeteau, University of Geneva, “Health and Environment: Adaptation to a changing climate in Himalayan Mountains”

Graham McDowell, University of Oxford, “What we know, do not know, and need to know about climate change adaptation in high mountain socio-economical systems”

Marc Foggin and Christian Hergarten, University of Central Asia, “Pastoralist societies in Central Asian mountains: Reliance on ecosystem services and adaptation to climate change, with special reference to the role of local and regional governance institutions”

18.00 – Dinner – on own

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