Wrecked: Navigating Colonialism in the Graveyard of the Pacific, by Coll Thrush
March 29, 2024, 18:00 CET. Online via MS Teams.
Drawn from a forthcoming book, this talk examines the history of colonialism on the northwest coast of North America, a region known as the Graveyard of the Pacific, through the lens of shipwreck. There have been more than two thousand shipwrecks along the Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island coasts, and the story of these maritime misfortunes and their afterlives offers a porthole into relationships between Indigenous peoples and newcomers in a place where colonialism has turned out to be a failed project.
Coll THRUSH is professor of history, associate faculty in critical Indigenous studies, and Killam teaching laureate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is the author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire.
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