John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at UVic, is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences for his substantial and distinguished scholarship and commitment to furthering our knowledge about Indigenous legal traditions.
This May, an inaugural event—the REACH Awards—will combine the Teaching Excellence Awards with the Craigdarroch Research Awards into a single event that celebrates the extraordinary teachers and researchers who lead the way in dynamic learning and make a vital impact at UVic, in the classroom and beyond.
UVic PhD candidate Alisha Gauvreau is one member of an archaeological team from UVic, the Hakai Institute and local First Nations that found an ancient village site on Triquet Island, reaffirming Heiltsuk First Nation oral history of an ice-free place during the last Ice Age.
A new play by University of Victoria theatre professor Jennifer Wise celebrates a little-known event in Victoria's gay history. "A Queer Trial" tells the real-life story of John Butt, an openly gay man who in 1860 was acquitted of sodomy charges by two successive juries—the first jury preferring to spend a night in jail rather than convict him.
From Borneo textiles to the world’s largest button blanket, from a 15th-century alabaster religious carving to a 19th-century lady’s pocket revolver, from anarchist manifestos to a Jim Carrey movie, the objects studied by art historians continue to change with the times. So too does the study of art history itself, as evidenced by the current Legacy Maltwood exhibit Learning Through Looking, celebrating the 50th anniversary of UVic’s Department of Art History and Visual Studies.
A new documentary, The Thinking Garden, about a unique farming collective in a small South African village carries lessons of hope and resilience. It was written and produced by UVic scholars Christine Welsh and Elizabeth Vibert and it officially launches on March 1.
On Saturday, the Indigenous versions of the Douglas Treaties—never before available in the local languages—will be presented in a ceremony at the Songhees Wellness Centre (during a three-day gathering) to the Royal BC Museum to be kept in perpetuity.
The presentation of the first-ever translations in the local Indigenous languages of the original Douglas Treaties of the colony of Vancouver Island is a pivotal element in a historic event taking place Feb. 24-26 in Victoria as part of UVic's Canada 150 celebrations.
From one generation to the next, teachers pass along the skills and techniques instilled in them by their mentors. Now, the School of Music’s internationally acclaimed Lafayette String Quartet will honour their own mentor with a rare performance cycle of all 15 string quartets by 20th century Soviet composer, Dmitri Shostakovich.
Is democracy in crisis? What are the implications of the new US presidency on political liberty, social justice and geopolitics? On Friday, Jan. 20, five UVic historians will hold a public panel discussion on possible impacts of the new presidency and on the lessons that history can teach us.
Thanks to a collaboration between UVic Libraries and Les Enluminures, UVic students and researchers have access to 21 manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, on loan to UVic till May. A public viewing, along with treasures from the library’s collections, also takes place Dec. 16.
Merna Forster, executive director of the UVic-led Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project, will receive a Governor General’s award at the end of this month in recognition of her successful national campaign to depict women on Canadian banknotes.
Sabina Trimble—who graduates this month with an MA in history—will don a mortarboard on Nov. 9, but her fondest memory as a student was being blanketed and given a hand-woven cedar hat, in a traditional Coast Salish honouring at her defence in August 2016.
UVic expert Jason Colby (Dept. of History) is available to media to discuss today’s announcement by the US-based Center for Whale Research of the loss of two endangered southern resident killer whales and the urgent action needed by Canada and the US to save them from extinction.
Two recently published research papers show how coastal forests benefited from First Nations habitation, and that fire-management was an important element of Indigenous forestry.
University of Victoria experts are available to media for comment on the US presidential campaign, the upcoming election and its aftermath.
