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The Department of Engli sh Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Garnett Sedg ewick Lecture\, featuring Professor Robbie Richardson (Department of Englis h and Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative\, Princeton Univers ity). Dr. Richardson\, who is a member of the Pabineau First Nation (Mi'kma w)\, will present a talk entitled “From Yuquot to Leicester Square: Indigenous Northwest Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”
< p>This lecture is happening on Tuesday April 2\, 2 024 at 6:00 pm\, and can be attended in-person at The xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)\, Liu institute for Global S tudies or virtually via Zoom. For in-person attendance\, a recepti on will follow.Whether you choose to join us virtually or in-person\ , please be sure to register for the event.
Garnett Sedgewick was a professor in the Dep artment of English at UBC from 1918 to 1948. Professor Sedgewick specialize d in Shakespeare and Chaucer. In 1920\, he became the first Head of the Dep artment.
This event is partially funded by the Indigenous Strateg ic Plan.
Th is talk will examine the representation of the peoples and cultures of the Pacific Northwest in eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the final v oyage of Captain Cook in 1778\, Indigenous material culture from Nootka Sou nd was brought to Britain for museum displays and private collections along side material from Oceania. It was most notably shown at the British Museum \, where some of it remains\, and in a special room at the Leverian Museum at Leicester Square\, London\, where some of the material was additionally painted in a series of watercolours by Sarah Stone. This talk will consider how this influx of material interacted with previous ethnographic collecti ons in Britain and assess its role in the rise of the museum itself as a re pository of empire. At the same time it will look at European accounts of N uu-chah-nulth people in both published voyages and depictions of the Nootka Crisis between Britain and Spain to understand their unique role in coloni al discourse while also highlighting Indigenous agency and survival.
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Robbie Richardson specialize s in eighteenth-century British and transatlantic literature and culture. H e received his PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University \, followed by a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship through the Institute for Co mparative Studies in Literature\, Art\, and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton Un iversity. He spent 7 years based in London\, teaching at the University of Kent in Canterbury and Paris\, which has informed his interdisciplinary res earch looking at the interactions between Indigenous and European cultures. His interests include Indigenous Studies\, art and material culture\, the history of museums and collecting\, and the literature of empire. He is a m ember of Pabineau First Nation (Mi’kmaw) in New Brunswick\, Canada.
R ichardson’s book The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (University of Toron to Press\, 2018) examines the representations of North American “Indians” i n novels\, poetry\, captivity narratives\, plays\, and material culture fro m eighteenth-century Britain. It argues that depictions of “Indians” in Bri tish literature were used to critique and articulate evolving ideas about c onsumerism\, colonialism\, “Britishness\,” and\, ultimately\, the “modern s elf” over the course of the century. Richardson’s next book project looks a t the history of Indigenous objects from the Americas and the South Pacific in Europe up to 1800\, and the ways in which these materials and the epist emologies they represented informed primarily British understandings of the ir own past and present. He has current and forthcoming publications on Bri tish depictions of wampum and the origin of writing\, on the tomahawk and s calping knife trade\, and on eighteenth-century antiquarian collections of Indigenous objects.
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