The Creative Conversations Speaker series returns for its fifth year. All events are free and open to the public.
This series is sponsored by the Ferguson Bequest and programmed by Creative Writing at University of Glasgow.
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Jesse Thistle
Jesse Thistle
Creative Conversations with Indigenous Canada co-hosted by Creative Writing and the Hunterian Associates Program | College of Arts
Date: Monday 21 June 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Venue: Zoom
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Jesse Thistle
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/141812036619
Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree and an Assistant Professor at York University in Toronto. He is a PhD candidate in the History program at York where he is working on theories of intergenerational and historic trauma of the Métis people.
Jesse has won the P.E. Trudeau and Vanier doctoral scholarships, and he is a governor general medalist. Jesse is the author of the 'Definition of Indigenous Homelessness' in Canada published through the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, and his historical research has been published in numerous academic journals, book chapters, and featured on CBC Ideas, CBC Campus, and Unreserved.
His award-winning memoir, From the Ashes, is a #1 national bestseller, a CBC Canada Reads finalist, and an Indigo Best Book of 2019.
For more information, visit Jesse’s website: www.jessethistle.com or follow him on Facebook: @thistlejesse.
This talk is part of the event series Creative Conversations with Indigenous Canada. The series is a collaboration between Creative Conversations and the Hunterian Associates Project ‘Biographies of Objects. Hi/stories of Indigenous Objects from North America’ by Alexandra Abletshauser, PhD researcher in Canadian Literature, at the University of Glasgow.
To learn more about the Hunterian Associates Project ‘Biographies of Objects’, please visit www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/biographiesofobjects/
This event will be hosted on Zoom and you will be sent a link to attend the meeting once you book on Eventbrite.
Creative Conversations is programmed by the University of Glasgow Creative Writing Programme and funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.