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Feb
16
2016

Coll Thrush--Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire

When: Tuesday, February 16, 2016
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT

Where: Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free

Contact: Kelly E Wisecup  

Group: English Department

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Coll Thrush teaches primarily Indigenous history at UBC, although he also works in environmental, place-based, urban, and imperial histories. His first book was Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (2007), which linked urban and Indigenous histories through the experiences of the local Duwamish people, Indigenous migrants to the city, and the uses of “Indian” imagery in urban landscapes and historical narratives. It argued that instead of being mutually exclusive, urban and Indigenous histories are in fact mutually constitutive. Native Seattle won the 2007 Washington State Book Award, and an article based on one of the chapters, “City of the Changers,” was named best article of 2006 by the Urban History Association.

He is currently writing Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire, which reframes the metropolis and its history through the experiences of Indigenous people who travelled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, beginning in 1502. Indigenous London is under contract with Yale University Press and will be available in late 2016.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Newberry Library's McNickle Center for American Indian Studies, and will be held at the Newberry Library.  A reception will take place at 5:30 PM; the talk will begin at 6:00 PM.

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