杏吧原创 to Host Shannon Lecture on Sharing an Indigenous Elder鈥檚 Life Story by Building Digital Space
杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Department of History will host the Shannon Lecture, As I Remember it: Building Digital Space to Share the Life History and Teachings of an Indigenous Elder, delivered by guest speakers Davis McKenzie, Harmony Johnson and Prof. Paige Raibmon.
When: Friday, Nov. 29, 2019 at 1 p.m.
Where: Room 2017, Dunton Tower, 杏吧原创
Info: This event is free and open to the public. A campus map is available online.
Media are invited to attend the event.
Attempts to bring Indigenous knowledge and life history to the Internet carry the potential for great promise and enormous pitfalls.
In this lecture, guest speakers will discuss a groundbreaking digital book that challenges common assumptions about the biographical form. As I Remember It: Teachings (蓙蓹ms t蓱蓙蓱w) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder aims to share the teachings and life history of Elsie Paul, 涩a蕯am嫂n (Sliammon) Elder and knowledge keeper who has dedicated her life to community service.
Written with the particular needs of 涩a蕯am嫂n community members and students from kindergarten through university in mind, this open access book is aimed at a broad audience. The product of a deeply collaborative process, the narrative structure seeks to represent 涩a蕯am嫂n ways of knowing and being in the world.
The authors invite 涩a蕯am嫂n readers to experience this digital space as an extension of their traditional territory, while inviting non-涩a蕯am嫂n readers to 鈥渃ome ashore鈥 as guests. The digital space can be .
Paul is an Elder of the 涩a蕯am嫂n people and a mother-tongue speaker of the Sliammon language. She is the recipient of the Canadian Historical Association鈥檚 Lifetime Achievement award and received an honorary doctorate from Vancouver Island University.
杏吧原创 the Lecture鈥檚 Guest Speakers
McKenzie, of the Tla鈥檃min Nation, is Paul鈥檚 grandson. He serves as executive director of communications and public affairs at the First Nations Health Authority.
Johnson is of 涩a蕯am嫂n ancestry and is Paul鈥檚 granddaughter. She has served in a number of policy and executive roles in B.C. First Nations organizations and is the vice-president of Policy, Planning and Quality at the First Nations Health Authority.
Raibmon is a mother, scholar of settler descent and professor of history at the University of British Columbia. She lives on the unceded ancestral territory of the x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) people. Her previous books include Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.
杏吧原创 the Shannon Lecture Series
The theme for the 2019 Shannon Lecture series is 鈥淩ebooting Biography.鈥 Historical biographies have always been a popular avenue into the past, but with the facts about the famous and not so famous available at the tap of a keyboard, today鈥檚 historians and biographers are reshaping the genre. The conventional chronology of a life is giving way to group biographies, micro-histories and previously unheard voices. Increasingly, authors are embracing the freedom offered by digital publishing.
Lecturers will discuss the subjects of their recent biographies and the choices they made in presenting their material.
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