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Join us for "A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North", a talk by Tina Adcock on Thursday, November 6 at 3 p.m. in Tory 2-58.

Talk Description: Exploration has long been pivotal to southern engagements with northern Canada, but it is most often associated with the nineteenth century or earlier. This talk, based on Adcock’s recently published monograph of the same name, sketches out the shape and significance of twentieth-century exploration in this region. By helping individuals normally resident in the South construct specific forms of “northern” knowledge, expertise, and belonging, modern exploration endowed southern industries and governments with the confidence and licence to sideline the voices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous northerners, intervene in northern Indigenous homelands, and plot their development and resettlement. 

Speaker bio: Tina Adcock is an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North (UBC Press, 2025) and the editor of Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History (UBC Press, 2018, co-edited with Edward Jones-Imhotep). She is beginning new research into the cultural and environmental histories of oil in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.