Public Lecture: Cecilia Morgan

Robert Sutherland Hall, Queen's University, 138 Union Street, Kingston, ON
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Reception and book launch will follow

In celebration of University Press Week the Department of History, Queen’s University and McGill-Queen’s University Press present a public lecture by Cecilia Morgan based on her new book Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada. The lecture will be held in the Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202, at Queen’s University and is free and open to the public.

University Press Week, established in 2012, highlights the extraordinary work of non-profit scholarly publishers and their many contributions to culture, the academy, and an informed society. 

Cecilia Morgan is professor of history at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people - especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree - travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. In Travellers through Empire, Cecilia Morgan unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with Queen Victoria, E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk poet and performer, and many others. Chronicling the emotional ties, contexts, and desires for agency, resistance, and negotiation that determined their diverse experiences, Travellers through Empire provides surprising vantage points on First Nations travels and representations in the heart of the British Empire.