UVIC’S Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement (CIRCLE) presents a roundtable discussion based on Nick XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton and John Price’s forthcoming article “Whose Land Is It? Rethinking Sovereignty in British Columbia” (BC Studies 204, January 2020). Joining the authors for this discussion will be W̱SÁNEĆ Elder, Dr. John Elliot, and Professor Rebecca Johnson, Faculty…
Time: May 4-6, 2017
Location: Vancouver Island University
“Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island: Race, Indigeneity and the Transpacific” (ACVI) project invites students, scholars and community researchers to submit papers for a proposed edited volume on the theme of (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific. Papers related to the themes of culture and heritage,…
Lecture: The Legacy of Japanese Canadian Redress: A Reflection/An Assessment
Presented by Dr. Roy Miki, Professor Emeritus (English) of Simon Fraser University. Dr. Miki is an award-winning poet and was one of the leaders in the fight for Japanese Canadian redress. He is the author of several books, including Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), as…
ACVI is organizing two workshops on February 3–4, 2017, to continue conversations about Asian Canadian and Indigenous histories and their implications for today.
Join us for:
I. Challenging the Law: Dispossession and Japanese Canadians
Outside the taking of Indigenous lands, the greatest dispossession in Canadian history occurred with the uprooting and dispossession of 21,000 Japanese Canadians between 1942 and…
CALL FOR PAPERS:
(UN)SETTLING THE ISLANDS: RACE, INDIGENEITY AND THE TRANSPACIFIC
Hay ch qa’ sii’em siye’yu mukw mustimuxw.
In keeping with regional protocol, ACVI acknowledges and thanks the Coast Salish people on whose traditional territory Vancouver Island University resides. We value the opportunity to share, learn, and live together on Snunéymuxw Traditional Territory.
“Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island: Race,…