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program of the (anti)colonial seas symposium, featuring a dark, moody, tumultuous sea with a crescent moon at the top

Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster hosts their second symposium “(Anti)Colonial Seas”

May 2026, the Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster brings together scholars from institutions around the world to discuss global connections across lands and seas.

dr. georgeson-usher in a black top and red dress looking to the right as she speaks with hand gestures, at the vancouver art gallery

What it means to “exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean”

UBC AHVA’s Dr. Camille Georgeson-Usher curates “We who have known tides” at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Nov. 2025–Apr. 2026), which looks at how the ocean has shaped the work of Indigenous artists.

cover of "The Teachings of Mutton" which features the pelt of the woolly dog against a black background

The enigmatic Coast Salish Woolly Dog

UBC PhD candidate Alison Ariss contributes to The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog (Harbour Publishing, 2025), which tells the story of the now extinct Salish wool dog with perspectives from Musqueam, Squamish, Stó lō, Suquamish, Cowichan, Katzie, Snuneymuxw, and Skokomish weavers, Knowledge Keepers, and Elders.