Peninsula College issued the following announcement.
Event Date: Thursday, February 24, 2022 – 12:30pm
Event Location: Online
A graduate of Western Washington University and the University of Washington, Coll Thrush is professor of history and Killam teaching laureate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in unceded Coast Salish territories, and faculty associate at UBC’s Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies.
Coll is the author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, which won the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography, and was re-released as a tenth-anniversary second edition in early 2017. He is also co-editor with Colleen Boyd of Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American History & Culture (2011). His article “City of the Changers: Indigenous People and the Transformation of Seattle’s Watersheds” was named Best Article of 2006 by the Urban History Association, and his article “Vancouver the Cannibal: Cuisine, Encounter, and the Dilemma of Difference on the Northwest Coast, 1774-1808” won the Robert F. Heizer prize for best article of 2011 from the American Society for Ethnohistory. He is also the founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences book series at the University of Washington Press.
Professor Thrush’s most recent book is Indigenous London, which examines that city’s history through the experiences of Indigenous travelers – willing or otherwise – from territories that became the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. During the 2013-2014 academic year, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Historical Research of the University of London and the Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library.
Thrush’s current project returns to writing about the Northwest Coast of North America. In its very early stages, Wrecked: Navigating the Past in the Graveyard of the Pacific, a critical cultural and environmental history of shipwrecks, settler colonialism, and Indigenous survivance on the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.This online event is free and open to the public, and will begin at 12:30 pm. This program is made possible in partnership with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Join the Zoom Meeting at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/82278252780, Meeting ID: 822 7825 2780.
For more information contact Dr. Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu
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