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SUMMARY: UBC History Colloquium | No Smoke Without Fire with Dr. Laura Ishi
guro
DESCRIPTION: The UBC Department of History Colloquium Series brings togethe
r scholars who are exploring important methodological\, chronological\, or
geographical issues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and cont
ribute strongly to our collective discussions. We are pleased to invite you
to the third event of the 2022/2023 Colloquium series\, featuring a talk b
y Dr. Laura Ishiguro\, Associate […]
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The UBC Department of History Colloquium Series brings together scholars who are exploring important methodological\, chronological\, or
geographical issues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and cont
ribute strongly to our collective discussions.
We are pleased to invi
te you to the third event of the 2022/2023 Colloquium series\, featuring a
talk by Dr. Laura Ishiguro\, Associate Professor
at UBC History.
Whether you choose to attend virtually or in-person\,
please register for the event. A light lunch will be available for in-pers
on attendees who register in advance.
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Talk Abstract
On 16 September
1868\, the gold-rush town of Barkerville\, British Columbia burned to the
ground.
This talk begins with two sentences – a mere sixty-three word
s – in the archive. Working from this fragment\, it conjures four new inter
pretations of the Barkerville fire and the colonial society that sparked it
: first\, as story\; second\, as an examination of archival rumour and sile
nce\; third\, as a lens onto gendered violence in early settler colonial so
ciety\; and finally\, as a meditation on what lies beyond and beneath the a
rchive.
On one level\, this offers a yet-untold history of diverse wo
men in mid-nineteenth-century British Columbia. On another level\, this is
a reckoning with history-telling itself. Playing at the edges of disciplina
ry convention\, No Smoke Without Fire unsettles straightforward notions of
archival silence\, absence\, and “hidden histories\,” turning instead to as
k what it might take to tell possible histories that abound in plain sight
in the colonial record.
Speaker Biography
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Dr. Laura Ishiguro’s research broadly focuses on Canada and the Britis
h Empire\, with specialization in histories of settler colonialism\, everyd
ay life\, and British Columbia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. H
er monograph\, Nothing to Write Home About: British Family Correspondence a
nd the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia\, offers insights into
how family letters and their writers played a critical role in laying the
foundations of a powerful settler order that continues to structure the pro
vince today. Dr. Ishiguro is an affiliated faculty of the UBC
Asian Cana
dian Asian Migrations program.