2024 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History – Lianne Leddy, ‘Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake’

Join us for the 2024 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture! We are delighted to welcome Anishinaabe scholar Lianne C. Leddy, who will share her work on how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ont.

In Serpent River Resurgence, Leddy draws on extensive archival sources, oral histories, and newspaper articles to examine the environmental and political power relationships that affected her homeland in the Cold War period.

With its focus on Indigenous-settler relations, the environmental and health consequences of the uranium industry, and the importance of traditional uses of land and what happens when they are compromised, Serpent River Resurgence explores how settler colonialism and Anishinaabe resistance remained potent forces throughout the second half of the 20th century.

Register here: yorku.ca/laps/hist/melville-nelles-hoffmann-lecture-rsvp.