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Calculating Genomic Distances Between Three \u3ci\u3eBrassica\u3c/i\u3e Species and \u3ci\u3eArabidopsis thaliana\u3c/i\u3e
No full textThe Brassica genus is notable for its extraordinary variety of food crops and potential biofuels. Turnips, mustards, and cabbages are just a few of the plants that fall under the Brassica umbrella, and one of Canada’s most important crops, canola, is also a member of the genus. In order to genetically improve these crops, researchers need to understand how useful traits evolved in different species. One tool for understanding the evolutionary pathways of Brassica plants is by measuring the genomic distances between them. This project used the Double-Cut-And-Join (DCJ) model to calculate these distances and build rearrangements that give insight into how the genomes evolved and where they differ from one another. The research project focused on calculating the DCJ distances between Arabidopsis thaliana, a model organism, and three main Brassica species
Opening Reception for Home Exhibition
No full textThe artworks of “Home” have been created in the Fall of 2018 by students in Sculpture I, an introductory course at Thompson Rivers University — the students responding to projects around ideas of home or the re-purposing of found objects. This exhibition has come about as a result of the involvement of Christyn Rebmann, a third year Visual Arts student who is a participant in the inaugural year of TRU’s Research Coach Program. Complementing the artworks on exhibition in the university’s Visual Arts Gallery are works by three of the participating artists as a satellite component in TRU’s House of Learning during the Conference
SESSION 2.2: No Indians Allowed : Challenging Racial Aboriginal Segregation in Post-World War II Northern British Columbia
No full textMy presentation, based upon my nearly completed master’s thesis, will investigate how indigenous and non-indigenous activists challenged the race-based policies of segregation and exclusion present in regional businesses throughout post-World War II northern British Columbia. Specifically, this presentation will consider how these communities and activists employed the rhetoric of equality and citizenship to resist racial segregation; as well as how this discourse was articulated – and debated – in the public sphere in the region between Prince George to Prince Rupert during the period between 1945 to 1969. This presentation will also explore how activists framed their protests by drawing analogies between local incidents of racial discrimination and resistance to global theatres of racial conflict such as the Civil Rights movement emerging in the American South to garner public support. Finally, this presentation will analyze the extent in which regional newspapers actively shaped the rhetorical landscape in which this discourse surrounding racial discrimination, Aboriginal citizenship, and native activism were debated. My goal with this thesis, and this presentation, is to contribute to the growing, but small, literature on Aboriginal-white relations in northern British Columbia. This presentation also endeavours to challenge some assumptions regarding Aboriginal activism in this region by demonstrating that indigenous and non-indigenous commentators drew inspiration from international theatres of racial conflict to frame discourse surrounding local racial discrimination. Similarly, this project will help demonstrate that this region was, and continues to be, shaped and give shape to the global historical developments
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No full textDrummer: Vernie Clement Welcome: Tina Matthew Dr. Marianne Ignace and Chief Dr. Ronald E. Ignace are the authors of Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw. Through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, the book covers the 10,000 year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Refreshments in the House of Learning Foyer following the keynote address
SESSION 3.3: Colonialism’s New Cloak: High Modernism and the Peace River Project
No full textIn the spring of 1957 the newspapers of British Columbia revealed, and sometimes celebrated, an agreement between the province and Axel Wenner-Gren that appeared to promise the creation of a monorail from Prince George to the Yukon border within a huge private development reserve. That fall a second memorandum called for the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Peace River. Both projects were frequently justified by high modernist rhetoric that promised to develop northern British Columbia. Hand in hand with this discussion was an erasure of the region\u27s Indigenous and colonial past. Yet except for this change in discourse the objectives of the Peace River project were the same as earlier colonial projects. As result high modernism masked the colonial nature of the Peace River project through colonial erasure while at the same time providing “new” justifications for the colonial project
SESSION 1.1: Frontier Redux: On Religion, Irreligion, and Settler Colonial Place-Making in the Pacific Northwest
No full textSpurred by a striking discourse of the frontier that is woven throughout interviews conducted for the “Religion, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest” project, this paper takes an episodic approach to explore how religion and irreligion have and continue to inform processes of settler colonial place-making in the regio
White Women: The Unseen Agents of White Supremacy
No full textIn this presentation I will draw on current media to make the case that white women are just as complicit in upholding white supremacy as white men. I will address and examine from an historical perspective the motives that drive white women to put race before gender to the detriment of themselves and everyone else. Many people view racism through the lens of angry white men yelling out slurs and acting out violently, when it is so much deeper than that. White women have shaped societal norms around race much more than white men have and I would like to educate the audience on what those societal norms are. I believe that as long as we allow white women to slip under the radar as one of the active agents of white supremacy we will never have a society in which equality for all is possible
SESSION 1.2: Emma Lamontagne-Vachon, Prolific Letter Writer and Chronicler, Vancouver 1886
No full textEmma Lamontagne left her native Gaspé in 1886 to join her husband Édouard Vachon in Vancouver. This was the first step in a difficult life that saw her separated from her family, then abandoned with her children by her Klondike-bound husband and living in quasi-mendicancy in B.C. and California. The corpus of her correspondence to her family provides a chronicle of life within the Francophone community in early Vancouver, where French, French-Canadians, Franco-Americans and Métis interacted closely in the new city in their efforts against cultural and linguistic assimilation. The traces of this community remain in the city’s older sectors, as tangible witnesses to Emma’s passage, in both happy and difficult times
