Thursday, 26 June 2025 | 17:00 to 18:00 EDT | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University & Virtually via Zoom
Professor Lianne Leddy will give the 2025 Robarts Keynote Lecture at the ICCS.
In the context of the Cold War nuclear arms race, global competition had local consequences for Anishinaabek lands and water in Canada. Drawing from her book, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake, Leddy will share how Anishinaabek actively contested Cold War colonialism and environmental devastation in her homeland.
Professor Leddy is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada and an associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is a member of Serpent River First Nation and grew up in Elliot Lake, Ontario. Leddy’s research focuses on Indigenous history in what is now Canada, with a focus on land, gender, and historical methods. Leddy’s award-winning book, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake, was published in 2022 by University of Toronto Press. Her work has appeared in several edited collections as well as the Canadian Historical Review, NAIS, Oral History Forum, and Herizons.
This event is open to the public. Please register using this link.
A reception and the annual ICCS Awards Ceremony will follow.