PORT ANGELES — The experiences of indigenous travelers to London — both willing and unwilling visitors — will be discussed during a Studium Generale presentation at 12:30 p.m. today.
Coll Thrush will present a lecture and reading of his latest book, “Indigenous London,” during the free event on Zoom at https://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/82278252780. The meeting ID is 822 7825 2780.
Thrush is a professor of history and a Killam Teaching Prize laureate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in unceded Coast Salish territories, as well as a faculty associate at UBC’s Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies.
“Indigenous London” examines that city’s history through the experiences of indigenous people from territories that later became the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. During the 2013-2014 academic year, Thrush 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.
He is the author of “Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place,” which won the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography, and which was re-released as a 10th anniversary second edition in early 2017.
He also is co-editor with Colleen Boyd of “Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American History & Culture,” published in 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.
Thursh is also the founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences book series at the University of Washington Press.
His 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,” gives a critical cultural and environmental history of shipwrecks, settler colonialis and Indigenous survivance on the coasts of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
This program is made possible in partnership with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information, contact Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu.
