Okanagan Reads Author Talk: Dr. Bill Cohen

As part of the Okanagan Reads program, UBC Okanagan Library and Okanagan Regional Library have partnered to offer a presentation by Dr. Bill Cohen, co-author of the first chapter of the collection White Space titled “Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Syilx Okanagan Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley.”

This event is free, and no registration is required. 

Dr. Bill Cohen is from the Okanagan Nation with extensive kinship ties throughout BC and Washington. He specializes in the areas of Indigenous knowledge, research, education, and transforming pedagogy. Bill Cohen is an Assistant Professor in the Okanagan School of Education at UBC Okanagan.  

White Space is a collection of essays edited by UBC Okanagan faculty members Dr. Daniel Keyes and Dr.Luis L. M. Aguiar, which aims to analyze the dominance of whiteness in the Okanagan Valley to expose how this racial notion continues to sustain forms of settler privilege.

White Space is one of the three books selected by the Okanagan Reads program, which is funded through the Sharron Simpson Family Community Engagement Endowment Fund. The Okanagan Reads program to form book club kits for community book clubs. Learn more about Okanagan Reads program and the other featured titles. 

Interested in starting your own book club? Borrow the White Space Book Club Kit from the Okanagan Regional Library.

Stay tuned for upcoming Okanagan Reads book clubs and author talks and check out the Spílexm Book Club Kit and the Skid Dogs Book Club Kit.