News and events

"Caging the Seas: Cetacean Capture and Display at Marinleland of the Pacific, 1954-1967" Department of History Friday, July 27, 2017 1:00 P.M. Clearihue Building Room B215

“I know what I am and what I am not”: Heterosexual Male Cross-Dressing in Postwar America, 1960-1990”

Explore the rich diversity of Latin America's culture through a Maya Lord, insurgents, revoutionaries, writers, artists and other key figures - LAS 100 - INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES - with Dr. Beatriz de Alba-Koch.

Thematic interests include Indigenous and mestizo accounts of the Spanish Conquest, utopian thought, female spirituality, and Ibero-American as well as Ibero-Asian Baroque culture. I am currently working on early modern atrium and roadside crosses erected in the Iberian metropolitan and overseas world as vehicles of conversion and resistance.

Press Attention - Dr. Jason Colby - "Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator"

To understand the issues raised by recent controversies around renaming and destatuing it is important to learn as much as we can about the historical characters in the news before we decide the best route forward. To move forward in the spirit of “truth and reconciliation” we need to know the truths of our past. Four historians will present brief “warts and all” biographies of four historical figures in the news: John A. Macdonald, Joseph W. Trutch, Matthew Baillie Begbie and James Douglas and put them in their historical context to help inform public discussion. Each talk will be followed by a discussion to inform such questions as “how should we remember these characters and their contexts?” and/or “to commemorate or not commemorate?” All talks will take place in Council Chambers, City Hall, 1 Centennial Square, Victoria, B.C. 7-8:30 pm. FREE EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Congratulations to Kaitlin Findlay, MA History - for receiving an Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award!

Congratulations to Elizabeth Vibert, who won a UVic REACH Award for research excellence.

Landscapes of Injustice featured in the news:

Congratulations to Dr. Lynne Marks for becoming the Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2018-19.