Happy First Day of October LFS Faculty!
Autumn is in the air, and with it, I am very pleased to announce our first LFS Scholar Seminar of the 2024-25 academic year.
Dr. Chelsey Armstrong from Simon Fraser University will join us for a seminar titled, “Land-Use and Use Rights: Historical-Ecological Perspectives of Food Systems in the Pacific Northwest.”
Thursday, October 24, 4pm – 5pm
Location: CHEM D200
Mix and mingle social with food and refreshments will follow!
Please register using the link.
As provided by Dr. Armstrong, an abstract for the content of her seminar:
Indigenous communities throughout the Pacific Northwest have long told researchers that plant resources were routinely managed and encouraged across the region. Despite these accounts, archaeological and ecological research documenting land-use and cultivation legacies have been lacking. To investigate ancient and historical land-use and cultivation in the Pacific Northwest, this research uses historical-ecological methods to document forest cultivation through time. This research shows that practices like orcharding and fruit tree management not only lead to increased functional and biological diversity, but challenge long held Eurocentric beliefs about cultivation and land-use in Ts’msyen, Gitxsan, Coast Salish, and Nuu-chah-nulth homelands. In the context of settler states like Canada, Indigenous cultivation and land-use is equated to use rights and therefore require careful attention and scrutiny.
Please join us on October 24th and do not hesitate to let me know if you have any questions!
Warm regards,
Madison
Madison Johnstone (She, Her, Hers)
Graduate and Postdoctoral Program Assistant
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
291 – 2357 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 822 8373 Ext. 28373
madison.johnstone@ubc.ca
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