Brown Bag Lecture Series 2019/2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | 12:30-1:20 PM
Settler Colonialism and Genocide: Similar or Different Concepts?
A lecture with Dr. Mark Meuwese, Professor in the History Department at the University of Winnipeg
Room 2B23 (2nd Floor, Bryce Hall, University of Winnipeg)
Genocide and settler colonialism are sometimes conflated when discussing the impact of settler expansion on Indigenous peoples. This lecture discusses how the two terms developed and why it is useful to treat the two concepts as seperate.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 | 12:30-1:20 PM
Settler Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Film
A lecture with Karen Froman, Instructor in the History Department at the University of Winnipeg
Room 2B23 (2nd Floor, Bryce Hall, University of Winnipeg)
This talk will briefly examine ways in which the Canadian government utilized documentary film in the post war period as a means of informing the general public of Indigenous peoples and government policies towards them. These films were intended to inform the general public that Indigenous peoples were 'ready and capable' of joining Canadian society as 'full citizens', yet many films of this era perpetuate the image of 'the primitive savage.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 | 2:00-3:00 PM
Early German-Indigenous Relations in Eastern North America
A lecture with Dr. Andrew Zonderman, Postdoctoral Fellow in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg
Room 2B23 (2nd Floor, Bryce Hall, University of Winnipeg)
Thousands of German-speaking Central Europeans migrated to British government-planned townships in eighteenth-century New York, Nova Scotia, and South Carolina and the connections indigenous peoples and Germans forged greatly shaped these settlement processes. Local economic, military, demographic, and diplomatic conditions influenced the nascent relationships between the immigrants and regional indigenous nations in the three township schemes. Over time, settler colonialist impulses and the Germans’ desires for economic security for themselves and their families led them in all three locations to take on increasingly hostile attitudes towards indigenous peoples and instrumentalize previously established bonds with Native Americans. These settlers’ experiences belie enduring narratives of Germans’ natural sympathies with Native Americans, first crafted by eighteenth-century German nationalist and Enlightenment writers, and call for decentering Moravian-Native American interactions as explemary of German-indigenous exchanges in early eastern North America.