The Bilson Lecture: A talk by author Bathsheba Demuth
The Bilson Lecture at the University of Saskatchewan is held every two years to honour the late Professor Geoffrey Bilson
Date: Monday, Nov. 2, 2020
Time: 3:30 pm CST
Location: Online
To register, please contact Dr. Jim Clifford (PhD) at jim.clifford@usask.ca.
Join the Department of History for the Bilson Lecture, a talk by Bathsheba Demuth, author of The Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. Demuth’s book won best book of the year from Nature Magazine, Kirkus Review, and the Library Journal.
About The Bilson Lecture
The Bilson Lecture at the University of Saskatchewan is held every two years to honour the late Professor Geoffrey Bilson, a specialist in American colonial history and Canadian medical history who also wrote historical fiction for children.
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