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 Sunshine Coast Elder College Presents: Oct 2 at 2pm

Registration opens at Noon on September 18, 2021 and closes at Noon on September 29, 2021. You will be receiving a confirmation of your registration and on October 1, 2021 you will be receiving an email with the Zoom Link. 

Register HERE for the Lecture

2021 Clifford Smith Memorial Lecture

Dr. Justice is professor of First Nations and Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia and has been a volunteer presenter of literature courses at the Sunshine Coast Elder College in Sechelt for several years.

Dr. Justice, a Canadian, is a resident of Halfmoon Bay. He was born into the Cherokee Nation in the USA, starting his studies at the University of Northern Colorado and receiving his M.A. and PhD. From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Moving to the University of Toronto, he taught English and Aboriginal Studies and while at UBC has published Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (2018) which won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Award and the 2019 PROSE award (Literature) from the Association of American Publishers and was nominated for the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism from the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures.

In 2015, Dr. Justice was awarded the UBC Killam Research Prize for his contributions in the field of Indigenous Literary Studies including the work, Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (2006) and The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (co-edited with James A. Cox, 2014). With many other books and articles to his credit, and for his extensive contribution to Indigenous and First Nations studies, Dr. Justice was awarded the Order of Canada in 2021.

This is a free Lecture on Zoom, open to all ages. But to receive the Zoom Link you must preregister.